What Is It That Makes Hate Crimes Hard to Prosecute
A white male journeys to one company and eliminates a number of workers. He then eliminates more people at a similar company. Six of the eight individuals he eliminated are…
A Black Man Wins Nobel Prize for Literature for the First Time
The writer Abdulrazak Gurnah is the first black writer since 1993 to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced on Thursday. Gurnah, who was born in Zanzibar…
Being Black in American Schools
Many people still think that racism is no longer a problem in America. After the election of President Obama, scholastic John McWhorter argued that bigotry in America is, for all…
Texan Abortion Laws Have Jim Crow Roots
The new Texas law that bans most abortions uses a method employed by Texas and other states to implement racist Jim Crow laws in the 19th and 20th centuries that…
Shopping While Black
Call a store, any store, from Fifth Avenue to Main Street, from California to Virginia and I’ll wager that I can find a black person who has experienced discrimination there.…
Did You Know 63 Percent of People Who File EEOC Complaints Lose Their Job
Individuals who experience sex discrimination, race discrimination and other kinds of discrimination at work aren’t getting much protection from the laws developed to protect them from it. That’s the main…