Jefferson Heirs Plan Cemetery for Slave’s Kin at Monticello
Thomas Jefferson’s heirs are proposing the creation of a separate cemetery on the grounds of Monticello, Jefferson’s estate in Virginia, for the descendants of Sally Hemings, the slave who may have been the mother of at least one of his children. But they are not ready to […]
Salih Booker, Making a Statement in Durban
It is important this historic world summit on racism focus on four points. One is a declaration that the slave trade and the enslavement of Africans were crimes against humanity. Two, the right to reparations for slavery, colonialism, apartheid, and continuing racism. Three, the cancellation of Africa’s external debts. […]
U.S., Israel Drop Out of Conference
Poll: Most Oppose Residency for Mexican Illegals
The nation divides over a Bush administration proposal to offer legal residency to illegal immigrants from Mexico, with support strongest among nonwhites and in the West.
Overall, 43 percent of Americans say they’d support a plan “in which illegal immigrants from Mexico would be allowed to live and work legally […]
The decision on what kind, if any, of a delegation the Bush administration would send to the eight-day conference will depend on whether language in the meeting’s agenda criticizing Israel is changed in the coming days — NYT
As I explained in an article (”The Global Privileges of Whiteness“) earlier this summer, one of the chief […]
Kendall Clark, The Global Privileges of Whiteness.
Tim Wise, Why Whites Think Blacks Have No Problems.
Tim Wise, School Shootings and White Denial.
Chris Crass, White Supremacy On My Mind: Learning To Undermine Racism.
Vandana Shiva, Poverty and Globalization.