Colorlines - Black and Brown people in large cities are being hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis—WBEZ in Chicago confirmed that as of March 4, 70 percent of Cook County’s deaths were Black; in cities like New Orleans, Detroit and Milwaukee, Black people are dying at astronomical rates—and Los Angeles’ public health director Barbara Ferrer … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy #119: California’s health directors say they have zero data on POC who are infected with or dying from COVID-19
Author: Eva Paterson
At Long Last – The Remembering 1619 Video is Released
On August 20th, 2019, in the pre-Covid-19 world, many of us saw an amazing and transformative performance created by Faye Carol, Joanna Haigood, Marcus Shelby, Cheo Tyehimba-Taylor, David Goldberg, Kim Euell, Steven Anthony Jones, and Joe Warner. The performance took us from Mother Africa in the 1600s to the present day. In the intervening seven … Continue reading At Long Last – The Remembering 1619 Video is Released
This Week in White Supremacy, Week #116: ACA 5 Introduced to Repeal Proposition 209
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 public … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy, Week #116: ACA 5 Introduced to Repeal Proposition 209
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 black … Continue 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."
This Week in White Supremacy, Week #113: ‘My father has repeatedly asked where’s the ‘escape plan’ for his brown, Muslim grandchildren.’
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."
This Week in White Supremacy #112: Trump’s words used by kids to bully classmates at school
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."
‘Authoritarianism experts say time is running out for Americans to stop Trump’
The events of the last 10 days remind me of the story of the frog who was put into a pot of lukewarm water. The temperature gradually increases until the water is boiling and it’s too late for the frog to escape. Trump, aided by his Roy Cohn, is moving more quickly towards realizing his … Continue reading ‘Authoritarianism experts say time is running out for Americans to stop Trump’