On Thursday of last week, on the second day of Spring, we learned that Trump was moving ever forward in his desire to be just like the dictators he so admires. He hired lawyers who are not adept at criminal legal defense but who can go on State TV AKA Fox News and peddle their … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 23
This Week in White Supremacy: Week 22
The 22-year-old black man fatally shot by Sacramento police in his own backyard was carrying a cell phone. Sacramento Bee Tweet by Kumar Rao. @KumarRaoNYC Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says 'Konnichiwa' after hearing story about WWII Japanese internment. CNN White writer blames 'Black Panther's' success for ruining other movies. Essence An IHOP restaurant in Maine … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 22
Want to Help Save Our Fragile Democracy? Join a National Call on Thursday, March 22.
The Equal Justice Society is part of this coalition. We'd like to invite your organization to join a call Thursday March 22nd at 1:30pm EST to hear an update on ongoing work to defend our democracy and the efforts to get to the truth about the Trump campaign's potential illegal activity during the 2016 campaign … Continue reading Want to Help Save Our Fragile Democracy? Join a National Call on Thursday, March 22.
This Week in White Supremacy: Week 21
In November of 2007, the Connecticut Law Review had a symposium commemorating the 20th anniversary of Professor Charles Lawrence's trailblazing work “The Id, the Ego, and the Equal Protection Clause: Reckoning with Unconscious Racism.” This article was a brilliant mashup of jurisprudence and psychology. The Equal Justice Society has used its analysis in our efforts … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 21
This Week in White Supremacy: Week 20
A new historical marker will "tell the whole story" about Nathan Bedford Forrest and the antebellum slave trade in Memphis. Commercial Appeal Black children will be the victims of armed teachers. Time During a four-day operation last week, federal officials said they arrested 232 undocumented immigrants in a Northern California sweep aimed at countering local … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 20
How to Get Away With Murder: Olivia Pope, Annalise Keating, and the Equal Protection Clause
Last Friday was a trying day. My friend Bob Demmons, one of the plaintiffs in the SF Fire Department desegregation case from the 1980s and former Chief of the SFFD, buried his 50-year-old son that day. The funeral was beyond sad. As we know, burying one’s child is not the natural order of life. It … Continue reading How to Get Away With Murder: Olivia Pope, Annalise Keating, and the Equal Protection Clause
This Week in White Supremacy: Week 19
“By ‘white supremacy’ I do not mean to allude only to the self-conscious racism of white supremacist hate groups. I refer instead to a political, economic and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources, conscious and unconscious ideas of white superiority and entitlement are widespread, and relations of white dominance and … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 19
Antioch school district must face trial on agreement to remedy bias against Black students
Read an article about this in the East Bay Times. A state court has rejected the Antioch Unified School District’s (AUSD’s) attempt to renege on an agreement made with the East County NAACP to address federal civil rights and disability rights violations against African American students. AUSD agreed in March 2015 to retain experts to … Continue reading Antioch school district must face trial on agreement to remedy bias against Black students