Racism

ATLANTA-4 African-American hockey players on the Atlanta Thrashers, Anthony Stewart, Johnny Oduya Evander Kane and Dustin Byfuglien have talked with CNN Headline News to discuss racism in hockey and the NHL. SEE ALSO:  Philadelphia Apologizes To Late Jackie Robinson For 1947 Racism The Psychological Toll Of Racism On Black & Minority College Students SOURCE: CNN […]

ALABAMA- Parents of students at small High School in Millry Alabama say that a father stormed the gym and threatened to kill Black basketball players for talking to his daughter. Local 15 reports: “He said that if any contact was made to his daughter that he would kill him and his black friends,” said Latisha […]

NEW YORK-After the Tuscon tragedy, activist Al Sharpton has called on the FCC to regulate racism on the radio, particularly Rush Limbaugh. The Hill Reports: We’re not telling Rush don’t say what he wants to say. Say it at home,” Sharpton said in December. “Don’t get on publicly regulated radio and television that are selectively […]

Virginia– Democratic congressman Jim Moran said racism was a factor for his party’s losses in the 2010 midterm elections, invoking President Obama’s race, slavery and the Civil War in a TV interview.

In one of her three great books—I can’t remember which because I read her complete works back-to-back-to-back—Gayl Jones has a mock dialogue which I’ll paraphrase like so: White Person: Why aren’t there more great Black scientists? Black Person: All our best minds are tackling the “race problem”. I was reminded of this again yesterday after […]

HOUSTON A group of young, African American professionals are claiming racism after a party of theirs was shut down at the Hudson in the trendy Rice Village area of Houston. Video blogger and Houston resident, Lydia Cotton had the following to say about the incident. December 28, 2010 was the night I and a hundred […]

Whenever we propose that one Black can make us all look bad, one of the most subliminally interesting things that we’re suggesting about white people is that they’re so dumb that they can’t tell us apart. If I were white, I’d be insulted by this—if I were smart enough to get that I should be […]

(CHICAGO-Chicago Sun-Times) A 4-year-old boy was Duct-Taped at the Pui Tak Christian School, in Chicago Illinois and the boy’s parents, Harold and Cara Irving, who are African-American, are claiming that race was a factor. The Chicago Sun-Times reports: “I received a call from the school informing me that my son was in the principal’s office […]

New York — Glenn Beck and Fareed Zakaria are best known as political pundits, but this week the two are locked head-to-head in a battle over math.

New York — A 2007 study on race and refereeing  in the NBA has resurfaced in a respected journal. ESPN Reports: Basically, the more black referees on the court, the better the calls for black players. And the reverse is true for white players. The entire combined effect is fairly limited, around 4 percent, but […]

Maryland — Russell Dickerson, III, a 19-year-old African-American man filed a federal lawsuit against the Aberdeen School District Tuesday, alleging he had suffered relentless racial and anti-gay bullying while school officials did little to stop it.

ATLANTA-The New York Times is reporting on the plans of many white southerners to celebrate the Confederacy with the upcoming 150th anniversary of the Civil War approaching. The events include a “secession ball” in the former slave port of Charleston (“a joyous night of music, dancing, food and drink,” says the invitation), which will be […]