News From A Colorful Perspective
California writer and mother Joanna Schroeder had a message to other moms of white teen boys in a tweet that went viral: White supremacists online are paying attention to young men’s social media use, even if you are not. Do you have white teenage sons? Listen up. I’ve been watching…
As we reel from another set of white male mass murderers, we need to address and confront uncomfortable truths: The president is responsible for this. A long-term employer of undocumented workers and H2B temporary workers, President Trump is promoting hatred of people of color to maintain his political base. The…
The Waffle House shooter had his guns taken away and given back to him, and the question is whether or not that would’ve happened if Travis Reinking was Black. His father, who ultimately was given the guns back by the police, promised to keep the weapons secure and out of…
Convicted murderer and white supremacist Dylann Roof was denied his request to replace his attorneys, who he referred to as his “political and biological enemies” on the basis of their ethnicities. In a handwritten motion dated Monday Roof wrote, “My two currently appointed attorneys, Alexandra Yates and Sapna Mirchandani, are…
Confederate statues are a rallying point for today’s neo-Nazis and white separatists. President Trump confirmed this by making it a central point of his meltdown in the Trump Tower lobby earlier this week. The difference between George Washington and Robert E. Lee is taught in elementary school history lessons. But…
I saw the president’s press conference live yesterday because I had a premonition that he was going to snap back from what he was apparently forced to read from a teleprompter on Monday. And he did, to a degree that I didn’t anticipate. President Trump said it plain and clear:…
The nine Black churchgoers who were gunned down by a white supremacist in Charleston, S.C., will be honored by a new memorial on the church grounds. The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church announced the plans for the memorial on the two-year anniversary of the tragedy. Michael Arad, partner at Handel…
On Friday the last of four Confederate monuments was taken down in New Orleans, La. Three of the monuments depicted General Robert E. Lee, Confederate Jefferson Davis and Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard. A fourth depicted a violent attack against an integrated police force in the name of white supremacy. The…
James Harris Jackson, a 28-year-old white male, traveled to New York City to commit a hate crime. As a result, Timothy Caughman, a 66-year-old Black man, is dead. Bill Aubrey, a deputy chief at the New York Police Department, said in a press conference Wednesday that Jackson left his home…
Police in Charleston, S.C., are investigating several acts of vandalism that have taken place since the weekend, including racist graffiti spraypainted at a library named after a victim of the 2015 church massacre. Graffiti was discovered at the Cynthia Graham Hurd St. Andrews Regional Library on Monday morning. One of…
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