In May that year, in the aftermath of racially charged New York City teachers strike that set African- American parents against Jewish teachers union, Kahane and two pals decided to form Jewish Defense League. Jewish power, modeled after Black Panthers and other militant groups..…
The proportion of medical students who identified as African-American or black rose from 5.6 percent in 1980 to 7.7 percent in 2016, according to Association of American Medical Colleges. The disparity matters, physicians, students and others say, because doctors of..…
Maulana Karenga, an African American who wanted his people to have a special time to celebrate and learn about their cultural origins. ..…
The upsurge led by women, particularly African-American, labor, LGBTQ and community activists, and the growth of left and progressive politics, impacted the outcome.. ... These deals typify the power of Chicago and the focus on luxury high-rise development to the detriment of the working..…
The Hispanic community and the African American community in [this city] are functionally very isolated. ..…
The black revolution has not been for nothing, and I don’t want people to be as negative as that, but it’s always a shock when you witness American society succumbing to attempts to reinstate that execrable mentality. The number of unarmed black people who are shot by the police, the..…
He has published three books: Beyond Ethnocentrism: A Reconstruction of Marx’s Concept of Science (Greenwood Press, 1991); The African-American Movement: From Pan-Africanism to the Rainbow Coalition (General Hall, 1994); and The Evolution and Significance of the Cuban Revolution: The..…
Richard Wright, American of Native Son and Black Boy, was born on Roxie, near Natchez, Mississippi in 1908. By the extraordinarily in Black Boy is exploration of the limits placed on African- Americans American South in the first decades of the century. ..…
Recently, the appalling spectacle of a black man condemned by a Georgia jury, a jury that included a racist bigot, reentered the American consciousness; if you haven’t heard about this travesty of justice (yet), or, if you’ve forgotten its details, all you need to know about the Keith..…