News From A Colorful Perspective
Michelle Obama spoke out against “white flight” Tuesday at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago. She said she experienced it as a child growing up on the South Side of the city, but that it still exists today with immigrants as the “others.” “I want to remind white folks that…
Over the last 25 years, the number of children in U.S. public schools with students of other races has doubled, the Washington Post found, and is indicative of the country’s shifting demographics to more people of color, especially Spanish speakers. However, Black students are more likely than any other race…
A photo of two white Galveston, Texas mounted police officers leading a handcuffed Black man on a rope has prompted the city’s police chief to issue an apology. The photo an anonymous witness took and shared Aug. 3 has gone viral, sparking outrage for hearkening back to images of slavery…
Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Kamala Harris did not wait for moderators to bring up segregation at Thursday night’s primary debate. Harris confronted former-Vice President Joe Biden about his spotty record of supporting Black people. Harris repeatedly went over her allotted time to confront Biden about his recent comments about missing…
A new NYU School of Medicine analysis has found that the worst life expectancy gap between neighborhoods is in Chicago, between the upper-class Streeterville neighborhood and Englewood. Englewood is 95 percent Black. Streeterville is 73 percent white and 16 percent Asian. Residents of Streeterville live to be 90, while residents…
Lessons on racism have a whole new meaning in public schools, and they’re popular among white educators. A Shorewood Intermediate School teacher was instructing seventh-graders about games from around the world and separated the students by race. One of the Black students, MaHailey Stephens, said she and her Black classmates…
Paul Sheehan of Dorchester, Mass., threatened NeNe Judge’Mayo, a Black motorcyclist and her husband, and yelled “F*ck that N**ger,” as the cyclists had pulled over in the Adams Village neighborhood to figure out their directions. Boston Police, who were there due to a separate incident that ended in a car…
After two years of protests from students, Florida State University has agreed to remove the statue of founder Francis Eppes VII, grandson of Thomas Jefferson and known slave-owner, from the school’s entrance. “To keep the statue located at the front gates of campus is to give Eppes a level of…
President Donald Trump appointed Ben Carson secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) without any prior experience except that Carson “grew up in an inner city.” Now Carson is leaving the door wide open for housing discrimination. Civil rights groups, including the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA),…
The mayor of a Georgia town so racially divided that even its cemetery is segregated is fighting back against the discrimination that has long plagued his residents. Mayor Rufus Davis was elected to his post in Camilla, Ga., in 2015. According to Davis, his own city council has refused to…
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