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The US Department of Justice found many, many things wrong in its investigation into the Ferguson Police Department, including a pattern of racial bias. But perhaps the most disturbing findings were the racist email exchanges between police and court officials, which show outright hostility and prejudice toward the St. Louis suburb’s black residents. Here are…
Wilson’s supporters accused Eric Holder of burying news on the same day his officials accused Ferguson police of a pattern of racial bias. Photograph: Handout/Getty Images Darren Wilson, the white police officer whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, led to months of unrest and revived a debate on race and…
Entry Text FERGUSON, Mo. — A forthcoming Justice Department report on the Ferguson Police Department has found that city officials engage in practices that discriminate against black residents and routinely violate the Constitution and federal law, according to officials familiar with the results of the investigation.The formal report, expected to be released Wednesday, largely blames…
In November 2013, Tanzina Vega, a young reporter for The New York Times, pitched Jill Abramson, the paper’s then-executive editor, the idea of devoting a reporting beat on the national desk to coverage of race and ethnicity. Abramson liked the idea, and Vega became the beat’s sole reporter, publishing over the course of the next year an…
Photo After Michael Brown’s shooting in Ferguson, Mo., many black residents protested what they called unfair treatment by the police. Credit Whitney Curtis for The New York Times WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has nearly completed a highly critical report accusing the police in Ferguson, Mo., of making discriminatory traffic stops of African-Americans that created…
Actor Chris Pine cried over the John Legend-Common performance, and suddenly civil rights has a new “hero.” Chris Pine at the Academy Awards Feb. 22, 2015Youtube screenshot /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr There is nothing—nothing—like seeing a handsome, straight, cisgender, wealthy, able-bodied white man cry to remind us how horrific black people had it during the civil rights…
Photo Eddie Murphy before his “White Like Me” skit. Credit Frankie Ziths/Associated Press NEW HAVEN — THE recent reunion show for the 40th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live” re-aired a portion of Eddie Murphy’s 1984 classic “White Like Me” skit, in which he disguised himself to appear Caucasian and quickly learned that “when white people…
While US military and intelligence interrogation impacted people overseas, Homan Square – said to house military-style vehicles and even a cage – focuses on American citizens, most often poor, black and brown. ‘When you go in,’ Brian Jacob Church told the Guardian, ‘nobody knows what happened to you.’ Video: Phil Batta for the Guardian; editing:…
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, in 2012. Mr. Giuliani drew criticism for his remarks about the president at an event on Wednesday.Credit Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York on Thursday defended his assertion that President Obama did not love America, and said that his criticism of…
The mayor makes the fatal error of uttering a sentence in a structure other than noun-verb-9/11. Rudy Giuliani visits “Cavuto” at FOX Studios on September 23, 2014 in New York City. Photo: Rob Kim/Getty Images When Rudy GiulianiaccusedPresident Obama of not loving America, was he expressing a form of racism? If not, whatwasGiuliani saying? Ihave…