Whiteness is a seduction. Whiteness is also an illusion. These are the twin motifs on which Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid props up The Last White Man, his new novel about race metamorphosis and human morality. Read the full story.
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A Michigan police chief has apologized after it emerged that the department used images of Black men during target practice
Concerns about the images were initially raised in April, after a Boy Scout troop toured the building used for target practice by the Farmington Hills Police Department, according to CNN affiliate WXYZ. A photo taken by an unidentified individual on the tour shows at least three hanging targets of Black men holding weapons and a group…
As Inflation Soars, Black Americans Bear The Brunt Of Rising Grocery, Gas And Housing Prices – The Seattle Medium
“I’m just worried about quality of life,” said Johnson, 33. “You already have nerves about being a new parent. And then you have the whole economic downturn possibly coming and it can create some anxiety.” Like many Black families, Johnson and her husband are bearing the brunt of inflation — with prices rising to the…
Why the ‘Essential Labor’ of raising kids is to lonely and expensive : Shots – Health News : NPR
During the pandemic, when schools and day care facilities shut down abruptly, millions of parents — especially mothers — dropped out of the workforce to pick up the slack. Author Angela Garbes was one of them. Read the full story.
The AI That Draws What You Type Is Very Racist, Shocking No One
Machine learning systems almost universally exhibit bias against women and people of color, and DALL-E is no different. In the project’s documentation on GitHub, OpenAI admits that “models like DALL·E 2 could be used to generate a wide range of deceptive and otherwise harmful content” and that the system “inherits various biases from its training data,…
‘No different than the mortgage crisis’: NAACP President Derrick Johnson on why student loan cancellation is needed
Derrick Johnson: The No. 1 wealth driver in this country is homeownership, but you can’t qualify for a home if your debt-to-income ratio is too high, and the No. 1 debt for African Americans right now is student loans. As a result, there are no paths forward to closing the racial wealth gap without first addressing…
Officials: ‘White Lives Matter’ group is recruiting members in Idaho
Both the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League consider the anonymous organization a white supremacist movement with neo-Nazi ties. The group promotes white pride and the “great replacement theory” — the idea that there is a conspiracy to bring people of color to the United States and European nations through immigration with the…
Dramatic Spike in U.S. Hate Crimes
New York City is on high alert after Saturday’s shooting in Buffalo. Police are increasing patrol around Black churches for Sunday service. This comes days after three Korean women were injured in a Dallas shooting. The U.S. witnessed a dramatic spike in hate crimes last year with eight of the nation’s ten largest cities seeing…
Human Rights Collective Donation Supports Survivors of Physical, Sexual, and Emotional Abuse
Because their mission is to promote safe and thriving families, work to end physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, and provide victim support — we are donating a box of new children’s and Young Adult books, worth a total of $110 — to Rally in the Alley which benefits the Family Services Alliance of Southeast Idaho….
Dorothy S. Strickland Scholarship Established
Donate Here and write “Dorothy Strickland Scholarship.” Dorothy Strickland was the first African American president of International Literacy Association when she served the organization in the 1970s, a time when the field was largely dominated by white men, and she did not take this position lightly. Along with her many contributions to the field, she…
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