Examples include slag heaps on Chicago’s far South Side and mountains of waste coal, zinc and other slag heaps of “clinkers” piled up on Native American reservations in far northeastern Oklahoma. Lack of environmental justice was a topic of a recent Congressional Black Caucus..…
[While O’Brien is being touted as having recently been involved with the release of the African American rapper A$AP Rocky from Swedish custody, the journalist Hijo del Cuervo notes on Twitter: “O’Brien was a Rotary scholar at the University of the Free State in South Africa. ..…
This means that thousands of families with incomes under $92,000 per year could purchase safe, new homes at well below-market rates. . 3) Proposition F is doable for developers serious about meeting the needs of Bayview families. “50% affordable” still allows any developer to build 50% “market..…
African American estate agent and activist who describes as a mom on mission, Bynum-Coleman is running for office — and taking on House, 29-year incumbent.. ..…
Her goal, is to challenge audience to recognize feel African- American experience of being forever under scrutiny, forever judged by the good-intentioned, the ignorant, and the awful.. ..…
Both Moore and Dean, 55, were African-American, and at the time, that the race of the men, caused authorities to go easy on him.. ..…
My African-American in-laws and friends tell me they have no problem with blackface that is, for example, homage to actual black person, except object to stereotypical coon portrayals... ..…
The experiment studied impoverished African American sharecroppers with syphilis who weren’t told they had the disease and were denied treatment. ..…
One of the most dramatic and indelible moments of the trial came October, Black Panther leader, bound to his chair and gagged by cloth and tape. Here you had black man in American courtroom tied to chair with tape around his face and around his mouth, Chicago Sun-Times Bob..…
Of the homicide victims, 1,309 were white, 507 were black, 65 were Asian or Pacific Islander, 35 were American Indian or Alaskan Native, and in 32 cases the race of the victim was not identified.. ..…
It's strategy, taken straight out of the playbook of Hillary Clinton, from. ..…
Gee's Bend African-American quilt . . . Gee's Bend quilt . . . Gee's Bend quilt . . . ..…
By Christopher Weber, The Associated Press A Black of Congress on Wednesday called it incomprehensible that after the overdose deaths of two African- American men at the... ..…
Referencing an infamous US supreme court case which ruled that black people could not be American citizens, he said: “I say to this court, don’t let this case be your Dred Scott moment. . ..…
Bacon County, which is 15 percent African American, and Butts County, tied with 80 percent closed. ..…
critics of Darity's stance on limiting who should be eligible for reparations, say it encourages xenophobia and reductive infighting among black Americans and blacks. Some also point, Post reports, to Darity's support of American Descendants of Slaves, or ADOS, recent faction of..…