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Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Thursday, June 29, 2023

READ: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissent in Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling

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Read Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissent over the Supreme Court’s majority opinion on affirmative action in college admissions, in whic...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

NYC Board of Health Passes Resolution Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis

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The resolution recognizes the impact of racism on health during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond The resolution requests several actions...
Friday, June 05, 2020

Black NFL stars team up for powerful message to the league

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More than a dozen players, including Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes, Michael Thomas, Saquon Barkley,Deshaun Watson, Odell Beckham and Mar...
Saturday, March 02, 2019

Cory Booker focusing on Trump's racist policies

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New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker responded Friday to critics who believe he should unequivocally call President Trump “a racist.” Booker, cam...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

Why I wanted to believe Jussie Smollet's story

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BY George L. Cook III AfricanAmericanReports.Com. Jussie Smollet claims to have been beaten, doused with bleach, and having a noose pl...
Saturday, February 02, 2019

Cory Booker, Kamala Harris called for Virginia Governor Northam to resign

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Democratic presidential candidates, Cory Booker and Kamala Harris are calling for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) to resign over his ap...
Saturday, January 12, 2019

Tim Scott: Why are Republicans accused of racism? Because we’re silent on things like this.

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Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina wrote an opinion piece which was published in the Washington Post in which he call...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

NAACP president on Trump: 'I have no other conclusion but to say he is a racist'

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Derrick Johnson, the president of the NAACP, said President Donald Trump "is a racist" and bashed his administration for its r...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Charlottesville mayor: Trump "bringing to light" hate in America

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A year after violence sparked by white supremacists in Charlottesville claimed the life of a young civil rights activist and touched off...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Can we all agree that comparing a black person to an ape is racist?

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By George L. Cook III African American Reports I can't believe that in 2018 people are actually questioning whether comparing a bl...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

John Lewis won't attend Trump's first State of the Union

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Rep. John Lewis said he will not attend President Trump's first State of the Union after he referred to poorer nations, made up of p...
Sunday, November 05, 2017

Must Read: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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“We were eight years in power” was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democrac...
Friday, November 03, 2017

6 Florida firefighters fired for noose hung on black colleague's photo

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Six firefighters who worked at Station 12 in Miami have been fired and five more face demotions or discipline after racist and sexually ...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

Congressional Black Caucus Statement On White Supremacist Violence in Charlottesville

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Today, the Congressional Black Caucus released the following statement on the white supremacists violence that occurred today in Charl...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Black bussinessman is trying to trademark the N-Word

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For 20 years, Curtis Bordenave said he has spotted oncoming trends and gotten out ahead of them. Most recently, that's involved eff...
Sunday, June 04, 2017

Jason Whitlock is wrong about Lebron James acting like a victim

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Jason Whitlock recently said that Lebron James was playing the victim by discussing his house being vandalized. What Whitlock doesn't...
Saturday, June 03, 2017

NAACP DENOUNCES RECENT WAVE OF VANDALISM AGAINST AFRICAN-AMERICANS

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The NAACP issued the following statement after a noose was found Wednesday, May 31, at the National Museum of African American History a...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Noose found at National Museum of African American History & Culture

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A section of the National Museum of African American History and Culture was temporarily shut down on Wednesday after a noose was found ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

What it's like to be the target of racism on campus

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Taylor Dumpson was elated. On May 1, she became student government president at American University -- the first African-American woman ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Maryland murderer traveled from Maryland to New York to kill black men

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Police said the man who surrendered Tuesday in connection with the fatal stabbing of a man in Midtown Manhattan traveled to New York C...