It is not often in this country, even on public radio, that we hear frank and lucid talk about the structural forces that created and continue to maintain black ghettos in the United States. Sometimes, we seem too steeped in individualist rhetoric and moralistic judgements to talk about and begin to address the intentional and […]
As reported in the Wall Street Journal today, rich white people own, run, and will rebuild New Orleans in their own image.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it strikes me that as a nation, the U.S. still isn’t very good about talking about issues of race and class, and more to the point, isn’t very good talking about structures and policies and their impact on people’s lives.
During a live, televised charity for Katrina victims, a bit of inconvenient truth somehow managed to escape…
excerpts from Judge Says HUD Erred on Public Housing by Gary Gately, NYTimes, 1/7/05, p. A20
Black public housing tenants have been systematically consigned to segregated, poor neighborhoods of Baltimore City as a result of the policies of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, a federal judge concluded on Thursday. By not placing […]
Abigail Thernstrom, a white Senior Fellow at the intensely conservative Manhattan Institute, has just been named Vice Chair of the US Civil Rights Commission. She has become popular in the last decade for keeping alive the trope of Black and Latino culture as the cause for poor educational achievement and calling for the end […]
from NY Times National Briefing, 12/4/05, p. A15
ALABAMA: ANTISEGREGATION AMENDMENT FAILS A statewide recount showed that voters narrowly decided to keep language in the Alabama Constitution supporting segregation and poll taxes, according to unofficial totals. Nancy Worley, the secretary of state, said voters defeated an amendment to remove the language by just 1,850 votes out […]
*by Dr. Jamillah Moore*
It is saddening to read that California will take the lead in proposing yet another divisive initiative for the ballot. The Golden State has led the way on controversial issues of vouchers, immigration and affirmative action. Now the American Civil Rights Institute, founded by Ward Connerly, has proposed the Racial Privacy Initiative […]
This is what passes for a *problem* for the kinds of rich, privileged white people who are the most pissed off about the Supreme Court upholding affirmative action at University of Michigan.
Black and Latino students in Michigan — which contains some of the most segregated schools in the country — worry about having a […]
Traffic Stops by State Police To Receive More Monitoring
By Brigid Schulte
Washington Post staff writer
Thursday, April 3, 2003; Page B01
Maryland approved an agreement yesterday that is expected to influence state police conduct in routine traffic stops, providing safeguards against discrimination, and bring to a close the longest-running racial profiling lawsuit in the nation.
In unanimously approving a […]