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 […]
excerpts from “Too Damn Little, Too Damn Late,” Salon by Debra J. Dickerson, June 28, 2005
You were expecting, maybe, gratitude for your lynching apology? You should live so long. Here are my top 10 reactions to America’s latest patronizing attempt to repent its racism:
1. Bite me.
2. Damn right, the least you could do.
3. Mighty white […]
excerpts from “Ex-Klansman Gets 60 Years for 1964 Killings,” by Emily Wagster Pettus, AP, for the Washington Post, June 23, 2005
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — One-time Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to the maximum 60 years in prison Thursday for masterminding the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers. Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon […]
In American Holocaust, (Oxford University Press, 1992), David Stannard offers an important, readable, and frank history of the four-century holocaust perpetrated in what has become known as the Americas. In the first of three sections, Stannard repopulates what have been cast as the “empty lands” of North, Central, and South America, documenting thousands of […]
What the “Fighting Sioux” Tells Us About Whites
by Robert Jensen
(A talk by Robert Jensen at the University of North Dakota on October 10, 2003, sponsored by BRIDGES, a student group that works to remove the university’s “Fighting Sioux” nickname and logo.)
Appeals to the dominant white society to abolish the “Fighting Sioux” nickname and logo typically […]
An excerpt from Walter Mosley’s new book, What Next: An African American Initiative Toward World Peace:
When my father sat there in our darkened living room wishing that he could go out and join the melee (of the 1965 Watts Riots), I saw something that it took me many years to work out. He was […]
The newest superhero hits comic stores across America this week, and like so many before him, he is owned by Marvel. Unlike so many before him, he is black.
Now, for the real surprise: He is Captain America.
Truth: Red, White & Black, a new mini-series to be released monthly over the next half-year, re-creates the story […]
PHILADELPHIA — Scholars are objecting to a National Park Service text that does not mention that the house in Philadelphia used by President George Washington had a slaves’ quarters attached to it.
Instead, the Independence National Historical Park’s Web site refers to a “large servants’ hall” that Washington had attached to the back of the house.
“No […]
(This resource removed at the insistence of The Associated Press.)
A Conversation with Professor Horace Campbell
Q. Is it legitimate to raise the grievances of Arab and Muslim countries toward the West at this time?
A. It is legitimate to raise not only the grievances of the peoples of the societies that have a majority of its population that follow the Islamic faith, but also to ensure […]