The Anti-Defamation League demanded Friday that right-wing Fox News personality Tucker Carlson be fired after he launched a white supremacist conspiracy attack on immigrants, according to Huffington Post. Carlson ranted on “Fox News Primetime” on Thursday that Democrats are trying to “replace the current electorate” with “more obedient voters from the Third World.” The complaint clearly…
A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways
Planners of the interstate highway system, which began to take shape after the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, routed some highways directly, and sometimes purposefully, through Black and brown communities. In some instances, the government took homes by eminent domain, according to a story on NPR. It left a deep psychological scar on neighborhoods…
Fears of White People Losing Out Permeate Capitol Rioters’ Towns, Study Finds
When the political scientist Robert Pape began studying the issues that motivated the 380 or so people arrested in connection with the attack against the Capitol on Jan. 6, he expected to find that the rioters were driven to violence by the lingering effects of the 2008 Great Recession, according to the New York Times….
Maryland Inmates Can Now Earn a Bachelor’s Degree From Georgetown University
The Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI) will lead the five-year program. It will choose its first 25 students in the fall 2021 semester. By the program’s end, at least 125 inmates within the Maryland prison system will have earned bachelor’s degrees from the private university in Washington, according to CNN. “There is a great deal…
Virginia Cops Pepper-Sprayed Black and Latino Army Officer who had Hands Raised During Traffic Stop
“What’s going on?” Nazario asked the officers, who shouted at him to get out of the SUV as they approached, guns drawn. “What’s going on?” Nazario asked the officers, who shouted at him to get out of the SUV as they approached, guns drawn. “I’m honestly afraid to get out,” Nazario told the officers. “Yeah, you should…
States Step In To Stop Colleges Holding Transcripts Ransom For Unpaid Bills
Estranged from his parents and briefly homeless, he took out $50,000 in federal loans. He worked as a mental health counselor, a busboy in a bar, a team member at a Whole Foods and a cashier on the night shift at a diner while juggling a full slate of courses. He skipped meals and shared…
A ‘History of Exclusion, of Erasure, of Invisibility.’ Why the Asian-American Story Is Missing From Many U.S. Classrooms
On the morning of March 17, Liz Kleinrock contemplated calling out of work. The shootings at three Atlanta-area spas had happened the night before, leaving eight dead including six women of Asian descent, and Kleinrock, a 33-year-old teacher in Washington, D.C., who is Asian-American, felt the news weighing on her heavily, according to a story in TIME….
Opinion | As a Black Woman Raised by White Parents, I have Some Advice for Potential Adopters
More than half of the Black adopted kindergarteners in the United States are raised by families of another race — usually, White. And while almost always well-meaning, these White adoptive parents must also know and understand the itinerant racism, fetishizing, adultification and stereotyping imposed on their Black children from an early age, according to an opinion by Rebecca…
A List of Anti-Racism Scholarships in Children’s Literature
To help fight racism, consider these organizations that focus on education and children. The Highlights Foundation Diversity Fellowship in Children’s Literature The The Brown Bookshelf Presents: Amplify Black Stories The I, Too Arts, Collective Scholarship Fund The Anti-bias Book Bearer Program & Scholarships The Floyd Cooper Scholarship Fund The Diversify Science Scholarship for Illustrators The Jewish Writers/Illustrators of Color Scholarship Fund…
Anti-Racism Resources for Parents and Teachers
Breaking the pernicious patterns of racism is a process that is recursive, ongoing, and strenuous. This list of resources is a place to begin, and will be added to as items are shared. There is much work to be done. Please join us in your own personal journey towards becoming anti-racist. This is not a…
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