Rep. Sharice Davids on Twitter: “Native women face one of the largest wage gaps in the US, having to work 9 additional months just to get paid what their white male counterparts got paid last year. On #NativeWomensEqualPay Day, I’m calling on the Senate to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2lMu7jt
The White Power Movement From Reagan to Trump | The Nation http://bit.ly/2mz2ESf
Leaked Emails Show How White Nationalists Have Infiltrated Conservative Media | Splinter News http://bit.ly/2mz3o9Z
Scientific racism: a history of the phony theories that perpetuate white supremacy | The Washington Post https://wapo.st/2laPoTt
Texas prison officials threatened with jail for air conditioning violation | The Texas Tribune http://bit.ly/2mavrfY
Pompeo Decries Proliferation of ‘Human Rights’ Claims in Speech | Bloomberg https://bloom.bg/2mcaukE
Ava DuVernay on Twitter: “If you thought #WhenTheySeeUs was just the title of a four-part film…” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2mcbmpq
CE officer fires shots in Antioch grocery store parking lot while trying to make arrest | News Channel 5 http://bit.ly/2mi5VVP
[thread] Bette Midler on Twitter: “Is this a joke?” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2kJbCvS
[thread] zellie on Twitter: “Slavery was never abolished.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2kEikTP
Brian Entin on Twitter: “Big problems on the ferry from Freeport to Florida — announcement just made that any Bahamian without a visa must now get off. This is not normal. Nornally Bahamians can travel to USA with passport and a printout of their police record. This is a mess.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2kzK8si
Homeland Security to collect social media usernames on immigration and visitor applications | CNNPolitics https://cnn.it/2mcdUUw
[thread] Beyonce’s Stolen Emmy on Twitter: “A) deplatforming hate works. B) goes to show that M*lo and so many are not true believers: they turned a profit by playing on people’s fears. Trafficking in hate for any reason is despicable. But emboldening hate to line your pockets while people die is a particular evil.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2kHvxv6
Trace Lysette on Twitter: “My friend #MiguelEspinosa may be deported over a traffic violation. He pursued citizenship for many years, has a wife & kids who were all born here. They were waiting on 1 more piece of documentation that never came back. Now a family is being ripped apart” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2mbRxyy
Marlon Weems on Twitter: “Tonight a truck full of white boys sped past my house screaming the n-word at me and my wife. I’ll never forget the look on my wife’s face (she’s white). We’re trying to decide if we should tell our kids. It’s been a few hours now and I can’t stop thinking about it. WTF.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2mbiMJG
Ari Natter on Twitter: “JUST IN: The FEMA official who oversaw the reconstruction of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid after Hurricane Maria in 2017 has been arrested in connection with fraud and conspiracy charges.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2mh7H9K
Mississippi Man Sentenced to 11 Years for Crossburning | OPA | Department of Justice http://bit.ly/2kJfDjW
Trump pushing for major crackdown on homeless camps in California, with aides discussing moving residents to government-backed facilities | The Washington Post https://wapo.st/2kEa5Hf
Judge Promoted by Trump Administration Threatened a 2-Year-Old With an Attack Dog | Mother Jones http://bit.ly/2kChZko
[thread] Alyssa Milano on Twitter: “WHY ARE WE SEPARATING CHILDREN FROM THE BAHAMAS FROM THEIR PARENTS?!” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2mdGaGi
Meet the Press on Twitter: “BREAKING: The US will not grant temporary protected status to people from the Bahamas displaced by Hurricane Dorian, an administration official tells NBC News. (via @JuliaEAinsley)” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2maFnpM
Female swimmer is disqualified over her bathing suit. Critics cite body shaming |NBC News https://nbcnews.to/2mhctUI
Al Cardenas on Twitter: “More children have died in ICE custody that from vaping.. just saying… ” http://bit.ly/2mbWAz0
ANGELA on Twitter: “Racist out here showin their entire evil bitch azzez … This Is AmeriKKKa” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2lcQpKX
StanceGrounded on Twitter: “This breaks my heart Stories that are never heard. #afterseptember11 ” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2kZFowy
Samuel Sinyangwe on Twitter: “Angola is the longest running slave plantation in the United States. It is also the nation’s largest maximum-security prison.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2mCnbW4
New ‘SNL’ member Shane Gillis apologizes for anti-Asian slur in video | USA Today http://bit.ly/2mBD0w9
‘Proud to Be White’ : Conservative Candidate Resigns After Secret Anti-Immigrant Facebook Account Discovered | PressProgress http://bit.ly/2mElirX
Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere – LA on Twitter: “A little note on what we mean when we talk about #WhitePrivilege.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2kZMwJm
PBS NewsHour on Twitter: “Civil rights figure Juanita Abernathy has died. Behind the scenes, she wrote the plan for the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. She was 88 years old.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2mBEiY1
Andrew Yang wades into backlash over new ‘SNL’ cast member’s bigoted comments | CNNPolitics https://cnn.it/2lauCDE
Bishop Talbert Swan on Twitter: “A Black boy was jumped by 3 white boys at R.W. Blake Academy in Lakeland FL. Polk County School District @PolkSchoolsNews tried to cover it up and the court initially refused to issue a restraining order. The boys mother, Lauren Springfield, was persistent in calling for justice.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2mb5jl8
Ava DuVernay on Twitter: “They were found together. Two were so close their limbs touched. Sunday dresses tattered. Bodies shattered. Lives taken by killers for whom they didn’t matter. They did and they do. Never forget Denise, Carole, Cynthia, Addie Mae. Our Four Little Girls. Lost 56 years ago today.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2mHVJXf
Kristen Clarke on Twitter: “Today, #EricGarner should be celebrating his 49th birthday Instead, his family mourns his unjustified death; his friend, Ramsey Orta, who filmed his death remains incarcerated; and the cop who killed him was never criminally prosecuted and lost his job only after yrs of activism” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2mG6v02
President Hoover deported 1 million Mexican Americans for supposedly stealing jobs during the Great Depression – The Washington Post https://wapo.st/2mI0OyH
A Texas school district said a 4-year-old boy had to braid his hair or cut it off. Parents say that discriminates against black hairstyles – CNN https://cnn.it/2laGGVs
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Twitter: “Beware when hatred comes to have a “central role in public affairs” and leaders and their allies “publicly wear the mask of cruelty.” – Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2mEC1eJ
Peter Baker on Twitter: “”Who do you like more, the country or the Hispanics?” Trump at New Mexico rally quizzes Hispanic supporter who, he said, “looks more like.a WASP than I do.”” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2mECqxL
NowThis on Twitter: “Cops reportedly harassed a group of kids for waiting at a bus stop and even ordered one Black teen into their car with no explanation” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2mBSkZH
A North Carolina Sheriff Tried To Have A Deputy Killed Over A Racist Tape | Buzzfeed News http://bit.ly/2mGoEL9
Prospect Park Mayor Mohamed Khairullah detained, questioned about terrorism at JFK airport – The Washington Post https://wapo.st/2mI5Dbn
The untold story of wrestler Andrew Johnson’s dreadlocks http://bit.ly/2mI5Z1H
Overlooked No More: Elizabeth A. Gloucester, ‘Richest’ Black Woman and Ally of John Brown – The New York Times https://nyti.ms/2mHls1S
The Right Wing’s War on the L.G.B.T.Q. Community | The New Yorker http://bit.ly/2ldamRR
[thread] Chris Hayes on Twitter: “It is so easy to read this and be upset or shake your head and still see it as an abstraction. But take a second to play through a missile from, say, Iran landing in Iowa and killing 30 farmers and what that would do to domestic politics.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2l00Pxw
Natural hair styles in the workplace: Protections for race-based hair discrimination are growing – The Washington Post https://wapo.st/2lKEN1T
Kristen Clarke on Twitter: “White people exposed for wearing blackface often claim that there was no malice, no ill will and no hatred that was intended. The fact is that blackface promotes racial stereotypes and fuels white supremacy.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2lHLTUQ
Leslie Proll on Twitter: “This federal court has never had a Black judge in its 200-year history. It is located in Virginia.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2ngSndZ
Bree Newsome Bass on Twitter: “This situation w/ 45 being a blatant threat to nat’l security interests & the lack of response from the bipartisan establishment (esp Republicans) shows again that the traditional fanfare around patriotism is largely a farce; reinforcing racism thru Trumpism takes precedence.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2lKGbS9
How UT Used Standardized Testing to Slow Integration – The Atlantic http://bit.ly/2ngTgmP
Education Dept. cites disproportionate focus on ‘positive aspects of Islam’ in reviewing UNC-Duke grant funding | TheHill http://bit.ly/2lI6tEJ
NAACP on Twitter: “FACT: Young black men are 21 times more likely than their white peers to be killed by police. This HAS to stop. #PoliceOversightHearing” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2lyNvR2
Barry Jenkins Experienced Racism During Moonlight http://bit.ly/2lL5hQO
Candace Owens to Congress: ‘White Supremacy and White Nationalism Are Not a Problem’ http://bit.ly/2nahoat
I’m Not Here For That on Twitter: “Andrew Sullivan had no idea what he’s talking. Saying black men aren’t involved in their children’s lives is a right wing talking point. #realtime” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2lyONeQ
Resist Programming on Twitter: “@jemelehill Candace Owens reveals the whole scheme right here at her Blexit event. Use “minority candidates” as human “race card” shields. She then proceeds to defend Ron DeSantis’ monkey comments by saying “the word monkey doesn’t offend me.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2nbvyrW
Prosecutors say an alleged member of a white-supremacist group was involved with illegal guns, drugs – The Washington Post https://wapo.st/2lIFAk0
StanceGrounded on Twitter: “What the….?! This fairness cream ad is one of the most RACIST things I’ve ever seen. DISGUSTING” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2lIG1e8
Backlash Over Border Patrol Lawsuit Forces Women Out of Town | Time http://bit.ly/2lJYMxQ
Touré on Twitter: “The lifetime risk that an African-American man will spend time in prison at some point in his life is 28.5%, compared to 4.4% for a white man.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2lMoZvJ
Kristen Clarke on Twitter: “Insane apologists claim that white nationalism has no impact on Black people. Tell that to the family members of 9 Black people gunned down by a white supremacist while peacefully worshipping inside the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston SC. #NeverForget” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2lMpG8j
Modi, Trump, and White Nationalists Have a Lot In Common http://bit.ly/2nfYnDJ
ICE to resume detaining migrant families at Texas facility – The Washington Post https://wapo.st/2nfjohU
Trial Opens for Former Officer Who Killed Unarmed Black Man in His Apartment – The New York Times https://nyti.ms/2lK3WKe
Can the Trump administration sink any lower than threatening to deport sick kids? – The Boston Globe http://bit.ly/2naQOOt
Charles M. Blow on Twitter: “Just so that you know where all this money is going: “More than 92% of the country’s 2.1 million farmers are non-Hispanic whites, and more than 86% of those farm operators are men.”” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2lziEDU
Sister Helen Prejean on Twitter: “The death penalty is a vestige of slavery and Jim Crow. It’s no coincidence that the majority of executions happen in the Southern states that formed the Confederacy. Racism is baked into our capital punishment system.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2lzlFEg
Florida grandmother outraged after 6-year-old arrested for ‘tantrum’ – WFLA https://tinyurl.com/y4kv58t4
AND NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS
2020AdWatch.com: A Searchable Database Tracking Xenophobic and Racist Political Ads | America’s Voice http://bit.ly/2kE6SaF
[thread] Charles D. Brown II on Twitter: “Yesterday, I successfully defended my Ph.D. In physics at Yale. Since the 1860’s, Black people have been awarded few Ph.D.’s from the Yale physics department. As far as I can tell, I am the 7th Black man to receive this degree from Yale Physics. #blackandSTEM @AcademicChatter 1/” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2mhghoW
Nico Santos on Twitter: “Congrats @bowenyang on making history!!!” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2l9b9TP
Toronto Raptors on Twitter: “Inspired by those brave enough to change the game. The Toronto Raptors Nike Pro Hijab is available now. #WeTheNorth” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2l9lVJL
Native American ‘Aunties’ Raise Funds to Feed Migrants | Voice of America – English http://bit.ly/2mG70aq
Constance Wu’s Hollywood Destiny | The New Yorker http://bit.ly/2l9apOv
Sherrilyn Ifill on Twitter: “Hard to express how happy it makes me to see this. #GwenIfill’s legacy of integrity & excellence lives on in a coterie of exceptional women of color journalists working today. @nhannahjones powerfuly exemplifies the very best of these professionals. Congratulations @nhannahjones” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2lbT3QX
Billionaire Widens Morehouse College-Debt Gift to Parents – Bloomberg https://bloom.bg/2n8eaUW
AAIHS on Twitter: “We are now accepting submissions for the 2020 Conference “The Black Radical Tradition” March 6-7, 2020 #AAIHS2020″ / Twitter http://bit.ly/2naF929
Taniel on Twitter: “A landlord threatened to call ICE on their tenant. And was just fined $17,000 for that. Likely “the first case in the country where an individual was fined for threatening to call immigration authorities.”” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2lz0DWl
Brittany on Twitter: “This semester, I am teaching my first Native student. I am the first Native professor she’s ever had. We always talk about the importance of students having professors who look like them, but we forget how meaningful it is for the professors, too.” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2n8SCrh
Jemele Hill on Twitter: “The reaction to Jharrel Jerome winning an Emmy is so powerful. He deserves this and so much more for such an incredible performance. #WhenTheySeeUs” / Twitter http://bit.ly/2lLzxuS
Tommie Smith, John Carlos to be inducted into U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame – The Washington Post https://wapo.st/2lJa19K
Chief Standing Bear: Civil rights leader gets a statue in the U.S. Capitol – The Washington Post https://wapo.st/2lzkRze
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