Each year, ADL releases a report on the state of online hate and harassment in America, according to Buzzfeed. We pulled some highlights from the report that show how big of a problem this is in our country. You can read the full report here. LGBTQ+ respondents reported higher rates of overall harassment than all other…
Black England Soccer Players Are Being Racially Abused on Social Media. How Can These Platforms Do Better?
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was set to urge social media companies to take action to stamp out racial abuse on their platforms on Tuesday, after the profiles of Black England soccer players were bombarded with racist comments, according to Time. Johnson was set to reiterate “the urgent need for action” by social media companies…
What 2021 is Showing us about Black Lives Mattering
More than a year after the pivotal moment where millions of Americans witnessed the murder of George Floyd at the hands of those charged with the responsibility to serve and protect — and about two weeks after the salutary news that his killer would pay with a 22.5 year prison sentence — it seems like…
Critical Race Theory Battles are Driving Frustrated, Exhausted Educators out of their Jobs
Battles over diversity and equity initiatives in public schools have resulted in administrators and teachers being fired or resigning over discussions about race, according to NBC. Rydell Harrison is one of a small but growing number of educators who have left their jobs after school districts became inundated in recent months by furious parents who’ve accused…
Housing Solutions—Centering Community in Ownership, Control, and Long-Term Affordability
There’s a growing interest in community control of housing. How is it realized? We explore different community ownership structures, how tenants form a cooperative, and how larger housing nonprofits can incorporate residents into decision-making. By Miriam Axel-Lute There’s a growing interest in community control of housing. This webinar was organized and hosted by the Robert Wood…
White Farmers Blocked a Much-Needed Federal Relief Program for Black Farmers. The Saga Proved Black Farmers won’t Overcome Racism Unless they take their Economic Future into their own Hands.
This month, in a historic step to redress racism, the United States Department of Agriculture planned to begin issuing $4 billion in debt relief to minority farmers around the country. The move follows a long and ugly record of discrimination, including by the USDA itself, writes Cornelius Blanding in an opinion column. Depressingly but not surprisingly, a group…
The Critical Race Theory Panic has White People Afraid that they Might be Complicit in Racism
Keziah Ridgeway says she’s the only teacher she knows in Philadelphia who teaches critical race theory in public high school — and she teaches it in her anthropology class, as one framework among many to understand human cultures. But she also teaches African American history, and that’s what she thinks the frenzy over critical race…
Unvaccinated People are “Variant Factories,” Infectious Diseases Expert says
Unvaccinated people do more than merely risk their own health. They’re also a risk to everyone if they become infected with coronavirus, infectious disease specialists say. That’s because the only source of new coronavirus variants is the body of an infected person. “Unvaccinated people are potential variant factories,” Dr. William Schaffner, a professor in the…
A Search Past Silence: The Literacy of Young Black Men
Do we operate from a deficit perspective or a profit perspective? A Black high school student, Derrick, is involved in a fistfight. A journal falls out of his pocket during the altercation. Two days later, the teacher approaches him after class, asking for a moment of his time. She returns his book and admits to…
Opinion | I’ve Been a Critical Race Theorist for 30 Years. Our Opponents Are Just Proving Our Point For Us.
Seemingly overnight, my obscure legal specialty became a national lightning rod. What would CRT say about that? writes Gary Peller “It is a good thing that teachers and other school officials are trying to change that by taking a more thoughtful and accurate approach to our history, and being more honest about what needs fixing….