A group of Muslim teens were allegedly beaten up by NYPD officers on Monday, August 26, while playing handball in a Bronx park, and had their hijabs, or Muslim headscarves, torn off in the process. Sisters Lamis Chapman, 12, and Khalia Wilson, 14, told the New York Daily News that they were playing handball on […]
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Philip Agnew of the Dream Defenders and Sofia Campos of United We Dream were scheduled to speak at yesterday’s commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington. Both are youth led organizations tackling civil rights issues like immigration, racial profiling and the school-to-prison pipeline. That might explain why the were cut from the roster last […]
Michelle Alexander, author of the bestseller “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In the Age of Colorblindness”, posted a statement on Facebook today about her desire to broaden the conversation on racial injustice to include issues she typically has not addressed, like U.S. militarism and mass surveillance. She says she came to this conclusion after […]
(Updated below) Fifty-four-year-old Stacey Dean Rambold, a former high school teacher in Montana, was sentenced to 30 days in prison for raping 14-year-old Cherice Morales. That’s right, just 30 days.
I spent yesterday in Washington, DC, where the the fiftieth anniversary of the March On Washington was being commemorated. And unsurprisingly it was a big disappointment, just as I expected it would be. It may seem harsh, but to think that a day packed with pretty speeches by a diverse array of powerful elites, like […]
Authorities in Hayward, California are investigating the shooting death of Donny Gene Simmons Jr, a father of two who was shot dead Wednesday night by Hayward Police in front of his wife and two young daughters, marking the second fatal police-involved shooting by the Hayward Police Department this year. Police say that they were responding […]
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released last week reveals that nearly 40 percent of white Americans have zero friends of color. It’s unlikely that anyone with a basic understanding of modern-day race relations in this country is surprised by these statistics, but it’s still staggering to think that the closest interactions a large portion of US whites […]
Without giving a reason, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta reversed its decision to deny 15-year-old Anthony Stokes a new heart.
Important updates below Doctors at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta estimate that without a heart transplant, 15-year-old Anthony Stokes will die within three to six months from heart failure. Yet despite his prognosis, they refuse to put Anthony on the transplant list, telling his family he doesn’t qualify due to “a history of non-compliance” characterized by “low grades and […]
(Updated on Sunday, August 11) Nonstop fear mongering by lawmakers and White House officials about the allegedly growing threat of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has pushed Yemen into the national spotlight as a country synonymous with terrorism. Yemen is home to the scary bearded terrorists that want to kill our innocent American children, […]
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