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Can We Safeguard the Mental Health of Black Children in a Time of Black Trauma?
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, a third generation physician and author, reminds us that Black children are not blind or immune from racism. She summarizes a 10-year-old Black child vindicating his refusal...
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#WhiteGirlsDoItBetter: Why White Women Remain One of Racism’s Most Slept On...
Photo: Drew Perine, The News Tribune Christopher Emanuel is a 25-year-old Black South Carolinian. Syracuse law professor, Kevin Noble Maillard, crafted a brilliant report on the gauntlet of legal...
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George Takei’s Disrespect of Clarence Thomas Shows The Depths of Anti-Blackness
George Takei as Star Trek’s Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu From burning Black churches to Clinton and Bush presidential campaigns, the system of white supremacy produces alarming repetition. This redundancy...
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Even If Sandra Bland and Kimberlee Randall-King Committed Suicide, Racism...
The New York Times’ Charles Blow wrote eloquently about the alleged suicides of Sandra Bland and Kindra Darnell Chapman. Bland allegedly took her own life on July 13 following three days of detainment...
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How Mighty Is ‘Black Twitter’?
Did you know Twitter has a vice president of diversity and inclusion? This is currently Janet Van Huysee’s job. She’s a well-compensated white woman who was not hired by “Black Twitter.” Like prison,...
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Obama’s Inability — or Unwillingness — to Say ‘Racism’ Did Not Help a Divided...
President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump, in the Oval Office, met each other in person for the first time on Nov. 11. Stephen Crowley/The New York Times In “Dreams From My Father,” the...
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Historically and Today, Only White People Are Allowed to be Angry In America
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and a phalanx of armed white supporters. Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher/AP Photo The first Women’s March on Washington, which was the day after the inauguration of...
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Ape Depictions Continue Long Legacy of Whites Denying Black People’s Humanity...
Many believe this 2008 Vogue cover of LeBron James portrays the NBA star as a raging ape. Seventy-seven-year-old Genevieve Benjamin told the Seattle Times she cried when Barack Obama was elected...
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Author: Black History Observation Was Meant to be a Vehicle of Independence
Abolitionist and escaped slave Frederick Douglass died in 1895. During a week when the president’s new immigration restrictions incited global protests and condemnation, Donald Trump attempted to...
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How Emmett Till’s Accuser Escaped Justice
Timothy B. Tyson’s The Blood of Emmett Till “The spectacle surrounding Emmett Till’s death” as described by historian and Duke University professor Timothy B. Tyson, was “television’s first real ‘media...
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Is Racism Passed Down From One Generation to Another?
Texas High School teens shout ‘Heil Trump’ at graduation. The New York Times reports five Loudoun County, Va., teens pled guilty to vandalizing Ashburn Colored School, “a dilapidated, one-room...
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No, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings Did Not Have a ‘Relationship’
Former U.S. president Thomas Jefferson enslaved more than 600 Black people over his lifetime. Former president Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation is undergoing a $35-million renovation to...
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Despite Rampant Discrimination In the Military, These Men Came Back with a...
Jackie Robinson, Robert F. Williams, Geronimo Pratt During World War II, James Jones was a member of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first African-American armored combat unit. He was nearly denied the...
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Steve Bannon Is Urging Others to Read ‘The Camp of the Saints’ and It’s More...
President Trump supporters have suggested Jean Raspail’s 1973 French novel, “The Camp of the Saints.” During Barack Obama’s tenure as president, he and Michelle Obama recommended a number of books to...
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Was the Desegregation of Schools Really the Best Thing for ‘Underserved’...
Norman Rockwell’s 1964 painting depicts 6-year-old Ruby Bridges on the day she “integrated” New Orleans’ public schools. Earlier this week, the Baltimore Sun’s Liz Bowie detailed a $54-million school...
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The Missing Black Girls of Washington D.C. Stir Haunting Memories of the...
Washington D.C. police have increased alerts for missing children, which have been mostly Black and nonwhite. Last week, NewsOne Now investigated recent reports of missing Black girls in Washington...
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How Should the Black Church Serve the Black Community?
Congregation with their pastors at a revival. Getty Images The church has always played a significant role in the history of Black people. It has been both a pacifier of Black struggle and a leader in...
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Practicing Nonviolence Towards Each Other Should Be Black People’s First Step...
Slain civil rights activist and proponent of non-violence, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This month marks the 49th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Exactly one year before his...
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Whites Cheer Black Athletes and Loathe Them At the Same Time – We Ask Why?
Baltimore Orioles’ outfielder Adam Jones was allegedly subjected to racial abuse while facing the Boston Red Sox on May 1. In 2016, USA Today asked Baltimore Orioles’ center fielder Adam Jones why no...
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Are White Female Teachers Most to Blame for Pushing Black Children Through...
Getty images The school year began in September 2014 weeks after the death of Eric Garner, who suffered cardiac arrest after being placed in a chokehold by a New York Police Department officer. Despite...
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Does the Bounty of New Television Shows On Racism Keep Audiences Woke or...
Basketball star Charles Barkley hosts a new TNT series on racism. Gil Scott-Heron was wrong. In 2017, you can binge watch the revolution on Netflix. During a May NPR interview with the stars of ABC’s...
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White Savior Syndrome: Even In Fight Against Racism, Black People Are Falling...
Nat Turner and John Brown (Wikipedia Commons) During a 2011 interview, funnyman, author and civil rights activist Dick Gregory vehemently rejected a comparison between John Brown and Nat Turner, a pair...
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New Orleans Invested More Care Removing Confederate Monuments Than Caring for...
This statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was recently removed in New Orleans, La. Two generations of Landrieus have been mayor of the city of New Orleans, many times described as “progressive”...
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What Is Sensitivity Training, and Why Is It So Terrible at Addressing Racism?
Numerous U.S. companies require sensitivity training for their employees. In November of 2016, Burnet County, Texas, judge James Oakley used social media to voice his contempt for a Black male...
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While Black Boys Are Fast-Tracked to Prison, the Pipeline to the Classroom...
According to the Department of Justice, Black males form just 2 percent of U.S. teachers. A Black male teacher in the New York City public school system joined a recent Q&A with Black male studies...
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In the Face of Racism and Poverty Black Parents Struggle To Support Their...
Author and educator Joseph Gibson writes, “Nobody (with better options) wants to teach Black kids, especially those from high-poverty backgrounds” Those who argue the practice of racism is weakening,...
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Is Black Male Privilege A Real Issue in Our Community?
Eric Garner being choked to death by New York City Police in July 2014. Days after New York City police officers choked an unarmed Black man to death in the summer of 2014, ForHarriet.com founder and...
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Doctor Began to Understand the Role of Racism In Organ Transplants After She...
Vanessa Grubbs’s 2017 book, “Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers,” discusses racial disparities in organ transplants. Earlier this month, professor Vanessa Grubbs, M.D. visited Seattle, Wash., on the...
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‘Displaced & Erased’: The Untold Story of Black Clayton, Missouri Residents...
Sounding as if she were describing a mafia hit, Donna Rogers-Beard said Clayton, Missouri’s Black “community was slowly suffocated and then finally snuffed out.” Rogers-Beard, a retired Clayton...
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Black Cops Matter? Cities Paint Over Police Racism By Adding African-American...
Danielle Outlaw was announced on August 7 as the first African-American female chief of the Portland police department. Former Oakland, California, deputy police chief Danielle Outlaw made history this...
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A Growing Number of Black Athletes Are Leaving Pro Sports To Tackle Racism
Anquan Boldin, who won a Super Bowl ring with the Baltimore Ravens in 2013, abruptly retired this summer after signing with the Buffalo Bills. Boldin’s cousin Corey Jones was killed in 2015 by a...
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Georgetown Enslaved Her Ancestor. Now As a Student She’s Outing the...
Mélisande Short-Colomb’s great-grandmother Mary Ellen Queen was sold in 1838 to help a struggling Georgetown University. Days into her freshman term at Georgetown University, Mélisande Short-Colomb...
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Are the NFL Anthem Protests Evidence of Athletes Standing Against Racism, Or...
Just as former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s football talent is no longer on display, the meaning of his national anthem message was obscured by last week’s NFL displays. (Image...
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50 Years Before Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem Protest, Walter Beach III...
In a 1967 summit in Cleveland, Walter Beach III joined with other Black athletes to support Muhammad Ali’s refusal to be drafted into the United States military and serve in the Vietnam War. The cast...
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