Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber (D–San Diego) and a broad coalition of colleagues and business leaders on March 10 announced ACA 5, which would initiate a ballot initiative to officially repeal Proposition 209, California’s ban on affirmative action. An antiquated law passed under Republican Governor Pete Wilson, Proposition 209 has prevented equal opportunity programs in publicContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy, Week #116: ACA 5 Introduced to Repeal Proposition 209”
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This Week in White Supremacy, Week #115: Meet The First Black Rhodes, Truman, and Udall Scholar
Confronting A Legacy, and Creating Her Own: Meet The First Black Rhodes, Truman, and Udall Scholar (The Root) – Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru shares the importance of grappling with the Rhodes legacy as an African person, what it means to make space for other marginalized voices in environmental spaces, how she feels being the first blackContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy, Week #115: Meet The First Black Rhodes, Truman, and Udall Scholar”
This Week in White Supremacy #114: Eight years ago this week. We will never forget you, Trayvon Martin
Michael Harriot on Twitter: “Back then, there were 54 Senators (the old racist states hadn’t rejoined yet), which meant they needed 36 votes to convict Johnson. They got 35. No senator who voted to acquit Johnson ever held an elective office again.”