One year ago today 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by self-proclaimed neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman who pursued Trayvon because he was black and therefore suspicious. It’s nice to think that Zimmerman’s subsequent arrest, which came only after a wave of nationwide protests demanded it, will lead to justice for Trayvon but the reality is […]
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(Updated below) I typically love The Onion‘s satirical take on, well, everything. But tonight during the Acadamy Awards the person in charge of The Onion‘s twitter feed said something so offensive, it has been deleted. I figured it wouldn’t be up for long so I took a screen shot:
Yale University to Train U.S. Special Forces in Interrogation Techniques by Practicing on Immigrants
The Department of Defense and Yale University have partnered up to train U.S. soldiers in the art of interrogation techniques with the local immigrant community acting as test subjects, reports the Yale Daily News. As early as this April, Yale plans to welcome a training center for interrogators to its campus. The center’s primary goal would […]
A former African-American LAPD officer named Joe Jones posted his own manifesto on Facebook this morning in response to Chris Dorner, the ex-cop charged with killing three people as part of a vendetta against the LAPD. In an online manifesto posted to Facebook Dorner accused the LAPD of firing him in 2008 in retaliation for […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dsTHuY2b0bg A man of Native American descent unleashed some much-needed truth on a group of anti-immigrant protesters in Tuscon, Arizona. And lucky for us, it was caught on video and uploaded to Youtube. My favorite part is when he says to a protester holding an anti-immigrant sign, “Yeah, we should’ve put that sign up when […]
An analysis conducted at MIT found that black and Hispanic voters waited almost twice as long to vote in the 2012 election as their white counterparts. The following graph, created by the New York Times, shows that they waited for an average of 20.2 minutes whereas white voters waited an estimated 12.7 minutes. But that’s only […]
In July of last year, Oakland police officers pointed their guns at a sleeping 3-year-old while delivering a search warrant for a misdemeanor probe. The incident was brought to light in a quarterly report by Robert Warshaw, Independent Monitor for the Oakland Police Department.
“The settlements are established for the exclusive benefit of Israeli Jews; settlements are being maintained and developed through a system of total segregation between the settlers and the rest of the population.” This is the conclusion reached by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) in a report that slams Israel’s state-sanctioned settlement campaign. In typical […]
Does ABC News think people of color don’t go missing? Given their latest article on missing persons the FBI and local authorities are actively searching for, the answer appears to be yes. Of the 15 missing people ABC profiles, all but one are white, which wouldn’t be such a big deal if the article reflected the […]
“How am I supposed to explain to my daughters that their father was murdered by the police, the people who they are supposed to go to for protection,” asked Rosanna de la Trinidad three days after her husband was three days after her husband was killed. Jose de la Trinidad, 36, left behind a wife and two daughters, […]
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