It’s now 156 years after the Civil War and 56 years after the Civil Rights Movement won the Voting Rights Act, but the voting rights of Black people in this country are still under attack. The mass media has focused on Georgia, where the state legislature passed a law...
On Sunday night, only ten miles from where Derek Chauvin is on trial for killing George Floyd last May, another cop killed another Black man, this time twenty- year-old Daunte Wright. Wright was pulled over for a license plate registration violation, and cops claim...
In early April 1968, fifty-three years ago this month, Martin Luther King, Jr. was in Memphis to support the sanitation workers’ strike. The workers – almost all of them African American – had been on strike since February 12, demanding higher wages, safer working...
On March 16th, a terrorist murdered 8 people, including 6 Asian women, at different Asian-American-owned massage businesses in the Atlanta area. The suspect, Robert Long, said that he targeted these businesses (which he frequented) as a way to cope with his “sexual...
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, racial disparities that plague Black, Latinx, and other marginalized communities are on full and shameful display, and the vaccine rollout has shown no change in tune. In Baltimore City specifically, with a 62% Black population, only...
