Category : Culture

Is the Earthworm Native to the United States and More Questions From Readers

smithsonianmag.com - NASA says ice coverage is increasing in Antarctica. How is this possible with global warming? Kimmis Brady | Santa Ynez, California As global average temperatures rise, not all parts of the planet wi…Tweeted by @jungle_capital ht...

Alive during Jim Crow? Then walk the walk | The Royal Gazette:Bermuda Opinion

royalgazette.com - Published Aug 20, 2019 at 8:00 am (Updated Aug 20, 2019 at 8:10 am) Dark moment in time: clouds of teargas fill the air as state troopers, ordered by Alabama governor George Wallace, break up a demon…

Amid outcry, Chatham Commissioners vote to begin statue removal process

ourchatham.com - After months of public and private debate, Chatham County’s Board of Commissioners voted late Monday to rid Pittsboro of its Confederate monument that stood, ironically for many residents, at the foo…Tweeted by @EricFerk https://twit...

Tlaib and Omar expose the Democrat party for what it has become, the party of Jew-hatred

americanthinker.com - The latest campaign of the Left, following the exposure of the Russia-collusion hoax as a fabrication from the outset, is to brand President Trump as a racist and to similarly indict his supporters a…Tweeted by @KarenDoe50 https...

‘Have you noticed white people never move out of your way?’ The politics of the pavement | gal-dem

gal-dem.com - Living in a city with 8.8 million other people certainly has its downsides. You notice them as you squeeze onto the already full carriage. It’s a silent game we play together as we weave through crow…

Are Black people too forgiving?

theblackdetour.com - Unless you’ve been living under a rock the marginalization of Black people has been a constant reminder that we are treated like second-class citizens in America. With the various obstacles Black peo…Tweeted by @theblackdetour ht...

Popular and Pervasive Stereotypes of African Americans

nmaahc.si.edu - Decades-old ephemera and current-day incarnations of African American stereotypes, including Mammy, Mandingo, Sapphire, Uncle Tom and watermelon, have been informed by the legal and social status of …Tweeted by @castpixel https://twit...

Not just in Mississippi, it's everywhere.

indiadying.blogspot.com - "The first question I get when I tell people I live in the Mississippi Delta is, 'Why'?" wrote Jemar Tisby. "Nothing stands between you and the stories you hear about slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil…

Ben Shapiro: Teaching Minorities They Are Perpetual Victims is False, Backward, And Hurts Them

realclearpolitics.com - Ben Shapiro takes questions after delivering a speech at UC Berkeley on Thursday night during 'Free Speech Week.' Shapiro responds to a question about the existence of de facto white-only bathrooms t…Tweeted by @HipHop_LaFlare...

Analysis | Nearly a third of Americans were alive during Jim Crow

washingtonpost.com - State Police keep a small group of Confederate protesters separated from counter demonstrators in Richmond, Va., in 2017. (Steve Helber, File) By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focuse…Tweeted by @washingtonpost ht...

'I worked as a prosecutor. Then I was arrested. The experience made a man out of me. It made a black man out of me'

theguardian.com - Paul Butler, author of the new book Chokehold: Policing Black Men, argues the US criminal justice system is institutionally constructed to control African American men. But, he says, that is merely o…Tweeted by @MichaelMcboat https:...

Nearly a third of Americans were alive during Jim Crow- Political News on PoliticTalks

politictalks.com - On Sunday, the New York Times Magazine published a series of essays constituting what it calls “The 1619 Project,” a look at America’s legacy of slavery at the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the…Tweeted by @politic_talks https...

Power corrupts, and sometimes an innocent man ends up dead

washingtonexaminer.com - Eric Garner's death and the aftermath of it demonstrate two important lessons about the nature of power. One lesson: When people have power over others, they are tempted to abuse it. We don’t know wh…Tweeted by @TPCarney http...

The Professor Who Was Ostracized for Claiming the Civil War Was About Slavery – In 1911

rawstory.com - Sometimes when we’re poking around in an archive, we come across century-old documents that are strangely relevant. That’s what the story of Enoch Marvin Banks became to me. An aging letter from 1911…Tweeted by @notComey https://twitte...

Labor Day Weekend Event Guide for Black Professionals

Are you in New York City or Brooklyn with no Labor Day Weekend plans? No worries! We got ya. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2019 Summer Fridays – Afterwork Happy Hour – idontdoclubs.biz/event/new-york-ny-summer-fridays-afterwork-happy-hour-6 SATURDAY, AUGU...