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‘The Past is the Past’ They Say. Yet, the Last Survivor of Slavery Has Just Been Discovered
“Slavery was such a long, long time ago. Why can’t you people just forget about it?” —Wypipo proverb. The legality of chattel slavery ended just over a century and a half ago in the U.S. Many white Americans want it to be regarded as distant history, not worth unearthing since “the past is the past”…
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Rep. Barbara Lee Wants to End Evictions for Renters for as Long as We Are in Crisis Mode
On Monday, The Root reported that a 60-day moratorium on evictions issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) may mostly protect homeowners struggling to pay their mortgage due to the coronavirus crisis, but not so much for renters, leaving it to local governments to pick up the slack. Fortunately for the estimated…
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Amherst College Lacrosse Team Canceled After Chanting N-Word at Black Athlete
Whoever said “racism will go away once older generations of white people die off” severely underestimates how much bigotry gets passed down from one generation to the next. They also need to pay more attention to how often young white people behave in a manner that shows apples not falling far from their trees. College-age…
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HBCUs in Trouble as Enrollments Decline to Second Lowest Number in 17 Years
According to the U.S. Department of Education, there are currently 107 historically black colleges in the United States serving more than 228,000 students. If you’ve ever attended one or have close family or friends who have, you know the lasting impact the experience of being an HBCU student has on black people and how it…
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Black Twin Brothers Beaten, Choked and Arrested for Minding Their Own Business in Front of Their Own Home, According to Lawsuit
Last March, two twin brothers from Rancho Cordova, Calif., joined the long list of black people who have reportedly been harassed by police officers and/or nosy neighbors for committing the horrific crime of…minding their own damn business. The Sacramento Bee reports that Carlos and Thomas Williams have filed two lawsuits against Rancho Cordova, Sacramento County…
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Pauses on Foreclosures and Evictions Amid Coronavirus Crisis Protect Millions of Homeowners. Renters, Not so Much
As “shelter in place” orders are increasing across the country amid the coronavirus outbreak, eviction notices are still being issued by landlords and renters are still facing the possibility of being put out of their homes. While Trump announced on Wednesday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) would be “providing immediate relief…
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NYC Correctional Facilities Struggle With Crowded Jails, Officials Urge City to Release More Inmates
On Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio authorized the release of 40 of the city’s inmates who were convicted of minor, nonviolent offenses in order to lessen the burden on NYC prisons and jails affected by the coronavirus outbreak. After the city’s Board of Corrections declared in a letter (pdf) to NYC’s criminal…
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The DOJ Appears to Be Using Coronavirus to Get Around Our Constitutional Right to Due Process (Among Other Things)
As the coronavirus crisis continues to dominate mainstream media and the general public continues to be in frenzy mode, the Department of Justice has quietly asked something of Congress that would lend feelings of vindication to every amateur conspiracy theorist clogging our newsfeeds with their hot-takes on how the government created the virus in order…
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White Supremacists Had Plans to Weaponize Coronavirus: Even Amid a Global Pandemic, They Choose Hate
President Donald Trump may be stoking the flames of racism and xenophobia by repeatedly referring to the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus,” but it appears white supremacists have been contradicting that narrative for some time by attempting to adopt the virus as their bioweapon of choice. Yahoo News reported that federal investigators have been monitoring…
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Progressives Really Want Stacey Abrams to Be Joe Biden's Running Mate and They Have the Data to Prove She's the Best Choice
It’s no secret that anyone looking to put someone new in the Oval Office come November has quite the uphill battle on their hands. While supporters of President Donald Trump appear to remain galvanized and energized (Who knew that bigotry and jingoism delivered through grade school-level Twitter fingers would stick as white conservative America’s wet…
