I’m criticized incessantly at my Factotum-type day gig—well, actually not at the gig, because I’m the HNIC there, but every month we have this thing, a Manager’s call, where bosses from sites around the country phone in and discuss topics. I dread these things like the Black Death. Without fail, there’s some nit to pick […]
Does the King Monument Awaken His Dream?” by Dina Estelle Williams On January 20, 2009, a day after the King Holiday, a dream became a reality when Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America. And now, 48 years after his renowned “I Have a Dream” speech, the late […]
Nivea has apologized for an advertisement they placed in Esquire that featured a clean cut African American male throwing a mask of a face with an Afro and beard with the title “Look Like You Give a Damn. Re-civilize Yourself.” People quickly turned to social networking and Twitter to voice displeasure over the ad. “The […]
Black women are complaining that the Transportation Security Administration is engaging in a new, humiliating brand of racial profiling: pat-downs of long, natural hair-dos. According to an article by Joe Sharkey in the New York Times, these body searches are happening even when total-body scans aren’t setting off alarms: On June 30, a young African-American […]
A new report from the Applied Research Center found that a majority of young people understand that race continues to play a significant role in education, the criminal justice system, immigration, employment and other sectors of society. TheGrio.com writer David A. Love analyzes the “millennial attitude,” positing that the youth don’t really understand how racism […]
I wrote this article in January of 2009, but felt it was relevant again due to the riots in London and other cities in the U.K. As we can see in the article, the riots in the U.K. should be of no surprise, as history shows us that poverty, discrimination, unemployment and police brutality often […]
MINNEAPOLIS — A Black student at a predominantly white high school outside of Minneapolis has filed a federal class action lawsuit against her school for supporting an annual “wigger day” celebration. Quera Pruitt, who attends Red Wing High School, claims that the school was indifferent to the harm this day did to their Black student […]
Intruders ramsacked the home of an 83-year-old Chicago woman on Friday, defacing her home with the n-word to deter her welcoming her nurse’s aide, who happens to be Black, into her home. After suffering health issues last year, Lucia DeFrancesco needed the help of a nurse’s aide. Her aide is Black, which the racist intruders […]
A Houston man is alleging that once he moved into his upscale Houston neighborhood, the racism followed. David Williams, a 24-year-old African American website owner originally from Boston, moved to the Houston neighborhood where homes are valued from $400,000 to $3 million earlier this year. When he arrived, he said he noticed that people looked […]
This whole post depends on a link so I’m going to post the link naked. If it does not appear in the trademark blue of a link that you can click your cursor on as transport, copy the link and paste it in your browser. You MUST see this Youtube. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vAfXNzXueE&NR=1 […]
