Criticism of ex- Asheville Police Department Christopher Hickman's Aug probationary sentence has come from City Council's two African American members, Sheneika Smith and Keith Young, and one white member, Brian Haynes. ... While Asheville is progressive by most measures, it has..…
It should be noted that the New Deal and Great Society programs—such as Social Security and Medicare—that he left undamaged are broadly associated with huge (read: mostly white) segments of the population. African-Americans resented Reagan’s relative disinterest in the urban issues of..…
Hurston is correct none of these concert versions of song evoke the grief and ecstasy of enslaved human beings laboring under the lash of white America. Nor as African- American impresario Nolan Williams pointed out in acute post-concert discussion does the concert evoke the devastation..…
[Update, 8:31am: The White House has confirmed that Trump skipped the meeting, according to the New York Times.] . . From the left, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Burkina Faso’s President Roch Marc Christian Kabore, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, French President Emmanuel..…
The land had been expropriated from the African people during the onslaught of colonialism in the late 19th century. After a protracted armed struggle led by ZANU-PF and the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU-PF), carried out from the early 1960s to 1979, the white..…