Feb 08 Opinion: Why I am celebrating ‘Black Lives Matter at School’ By Jesse Hagopian We worried that when the day actually came, few might be bold enough to publicly proclaim their belief in the value of black lives. Then the t-shirt orders started coming in. Continue reading
Nov 24 Watch 5:42 Museums are curating an era of social movements in real time By Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green As Black Lives Matter protests erupted in 2014 after a police officer killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in D.C. sent curators to collect t-shirts and gas masks -- artifacts it could… Continue watching
Apr 15 Starbucks CEO apologizes to black men who were arrested as boycott looms By Kamala Kelkar A lengthy apology from Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson on Saturday night to two black men who were arrested at a Philadelphia store last week for alleged trespassing is getting push back for not holding the employee who called 911 more… Continue reading
Apr 04 Watch 15:38 Where the march for civil rights stands today By PBS News Hour Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for Americans' civil rights -- and his assassination 50 years ago in Memphis -- changed the world. Judy Woodruff sits down with civil rights activist Vernon Jordan, syndicated columnist Connie Schultz, Vann Newkirk of The… Continue watching
Mar 31 New videos show clearest account of Alton Sterling’s killing By Anthony Izaguirre and Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press Kept under wraps for nearly two years, body camera footage of a policeman killing Alton Sterling shows the officer threatening to shoot the man and screaming profanities before firing the fatal shots that stoked protests across the nation. Continue reading
Mar 18 Parkland, race and the gun violence that goes overlooked By Kamala Kelkar Black communities are reckoning with how to embrace the March for Our Lives while also addressing truths about their safety, perceptions of black lives and death. Continue reading
Feb 26 This poet imagines black victims of police violence ‘alive someplace better’ By Jennifer Hijazi Danez Smith sees another life for the black victims of police violence: at last living in a world where blackness is celebrated and “everything/is a sanctuary & nothing is a gun.”… Continue reading
Feb 05 Opinion: I will not pledge allegiance until America does better By Ricky House I realized it was completely disingenuous of me to stand for a pledge when the words do not apply to my life. Continue reading
Feb 05 Opinion: ‘Freedom’ is why I ask my students to stand for the Pledge By David Jungblut As an educator, "Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance" was not a phrase I thought would ever come under scrutiny. Continue reading
Jan 05 The fallout of police violence is killing black women like Erica Garner By Christen A. Smith, The Conversation An anthropologist, who studies the impact of police violence on black communities, examines the ways that police violence kills black women slowly through trauma, pain and loss. Continue reading