Racism

From AJC.com: Despite several failed attempts to get Georgia to apologize for slavery, State Rep. Al Williams says is reviving the resolution this session because it is still a cause worth fighting for.

From LATimes.com: Reporting from Washington – The controversy over racial bias, testing and firefighters that blew up at both the Supreme Court and the Senate last year returns Monday, this time as the justices decide whether blacks who were not hired in Chicago because of their test scores are due damages for years of lost […]

what exactly DOES one have to do to be labled a terrorist nowadays?

If you’re on the east coast, chances are you’ve spent the entire day watching sitcoms and reading celebrity gossip…

From HuffingtonPost.com: John Mayer took to Twitter to apologize for using the N-word in an interview with Playboy magazine. In the interview, in which he talks about his great sex with Jessica Simpson, he also used the racial epithet. The whole section of the interview is at the bottom, so scroll down to read it. […]

From HuffingtonPost.com: RNC Chairman and designated GOP sparkplug Michael Steele finds himself the center of attention once again this week — this time for an interview published in February’s issue of Washingtonian magazine in which he charges his critics with racism.

There are a lot of things that we all take for granted as being commonly known facts. This Week in Blackness host Elon James White wrote a few #BlackFacts in a Twitter Discussion and decided to share them with you.

Editor’s Note: This makes me laugh! Relax your hair (because having nappy, Black hair during Black History Month is too militant and Panther-y and subversive.