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NEW YORK CITY – DECEMBER 27 2014: several protesters gathered at the Pink Houses for a march to Police Services Area #2 station demanding justice for Akai Gurley, who was killed by Peter Liang. Photo Credit: a katz / Shutterstock.com BODY According to a new report from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice African-American women in San…
The leader of the Spokane, Washington chapter of the NAACP is being accused of pretending to be a black woman. The mother of Rachel Dolezal has come forward to assert that her daughter is actually a white woman who has pretended to be black for the last nine or so years. Rachel Dolezal’s mother spoke…
Photo Rachel Dolezal, center, president of the NAACP in Spokane, Wash., before the start of a Black Lives Matter Teach-In in January. Credit Tyler Tjomsland/The Spokesman-Review, via Associated Press The parents of a civil rights activist in Spokane, Wash., say their daughter has misrepresented herself as black for years, spurring a growing discussion on social…
Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images According to a new report, minorities who work in retail earn less and are less likely to be promoted than their white counterparts. The study, released yesterday by the NAACP and public-policy group Demos, found that retailers pay black and Latino full-time salespeople about 75 percent of what they pay…
Roland Martin YouTube Screenshot /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr There has been one group of people who’ve been seemingly silent since a video was released of a McKinney, Texas, police officer brutally violating a 15-year-old girl in a bikini after being called to shut down a pool party. People all over social media and black media have noticed…
The images are compelling, true, but they don’t compel due to any great variety. On the contrary, the experienced viewer will detect a certain dispiriting sameness almost from the outset. The only aspect that truly changes is the accompanying data, though this is mostly irrelevant detail. A boy (relevant detail: 12 years old) stands in a…
On any given day, in any police department in the nation, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. Fifteen percent of officers will abuse their authority at every opportunity. The remaining 70 percent could go either way depending on whom they are working with. That’s a theory from…
The writer and activist dream hampton — in a series of quickly deleted tweets — that Jay-Z and Beyonce have quietly put up the money to bail protesters out of jail in Ferguson and in Baltimore, and that they have been essential backers of the #blacklivesmatter movement. Complex magazine grabbed screen shots of the tweets…
5 Helpful Answers To Society’s Most Uncomfortable Questions How many of you are old enough to remember “We Didn’t Start The Fire,” that shit-awful Billy Joel song in which he unconvincingly insists over and over that he didn’t cause the apocalypse? <br /> Well, what I am finding as time goes on is that we…
For every 100 black women not in jail, there are only 83 black men. The remaining men – 1.5 million of them – are, in a sense, missing. Among cities with sizable black populations, the largest single gap is in Ferguson, Mo. North Charleston, S.C., has a gap larger than 75 percent of cities. This…