by ProPublica | May 20, 2022 | Racism (Us vs Them), Fact Heroes
In July of 2021, a professional architectural historian named Erin Edwards delivered what she expected would be the near-final draft of a report about a contested swath of sugar cane plantation land along the Mississippi River in Louisiana. The painstaking survey, for...
by OtherWords — Institute for Policy Studies | May 19, 2022 | Racism (Us vs Them), Quick Facts
Before a hate-filled 18-year-old murdered 10 and wounded 3 African Americans in Buffalo on May 14, he penned a rambling screed about replacement theory. The most common version of this whiny idea, imported from the more hysterical fringes of the French far right,...
by Fact Keepers | May 17, 2022 | Fact Heroes, Racism (Us vs Them)
Rideshare driver James Bode was doing his thing a few nights ago. He arrived to pick up a ride outside a bar in Catasauqua, Pa, two passengers. As the female rider enters the car she says, “Wow, you’re like a white guy.” James refused the ride in spite of being...
by Common Dreams | May 15, 2022 | Racism (Us vs Them)
Amid the outpouring of grief and heartache following Saturday’s massacre in Buffalo that left 10 people dead and three wounded, critical observers say the racial animus which evidence shows motivated the killer must be seen in the larger context of a white...
by Common Dreams | May 10, 2022 | Racism (Us vs Them), Human Rights & Justice
Hundreds of cops across the United States have been taught by individuals who espouse far-right extremist views, according to a new investigation that was published Friday to sound the alarm on a burgeoning and unregulated private training industry. Reuters identified...
by The Conversation | May 3, 2022 | Fact Heroes, Human Rights & Justice, Racism (Us vs Them)
Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for justice that was fueled by a network of Black and white abolitionists determined to end slavery in America. “I had reasoned this out...