Jury diversity is a worthy goal and there are ways to reach it
Jury service is not easy and it’s not popular. But the right to a jury is embedded in the constitutional right to a fair trial. When juries do not reflect the diversity of the...
Category: Racial Justice
Racism was called a health threat. Then came the DEI backlash.
David R. Williams and Rachel Hardeman are population health researchers at different universities with one thing in common: Both have been added to a right-wing “watch list” for teaching about and researching the ways...
Brooklyn’s remarkable and unknown Black history revealed: ‘Slaveholding capital’
Long before it became the go-to borough for hipsters and commuters, Brooklyn was once America’s third largest city, independent and separate from Manhattan and the City of New York, explains Prithi Kanakamedala in “Brooklynites:...
I’m a Black American—Here’s Why I’m Not Celebrating the 4th of July
The ugly truths hidden within the fabric of America’s legacy are why I’m not celebrating the 4th of July—and never will Karen Greene Braithwaite, As Told To Lynnette Nicholas July 3, 2024 Read the...
Black Americans Still Feel Systematically Held Back
On July 2, 1964, Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. To this day, the landmark bill is considered one of the most significant legislative achievements in American history, marking a key...
Juneteenth and the unfinished work of racial justice
In Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger brought freedom from abstraction into reality for enslaved Africans in the District of Texas, as was already the case elsewhere in the country. F....
Oklahoma Supreme Court Dismisses Lawsuit From Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors
The survivors had sought financial reparations from the city for its failure to protect Black residents. Chris Walker June 13, 2024 Read the full article here Truthout
“That is not justice”: Missouri sets execution date for a man who even prosecutors say is innocent
Republican Gov. Mike Parsons has refused to grant Marcellus Williams a pardon, despite exonerating DNA evidence. Nandinka Chatterjee June 11, 2024 Read the full article here Salon
What to know about Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier’s first hearing in more than a decade
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, has a parole hearing Monday at a...
All-White Virginia School Board Tried to Be Slick, Bringing Back Proslavery Names to Piss Black Folks Off
After changing the Confederate names of two schools in the wake of Black Lives Matter, the school board has had a change of heart, and Black people are mad. Emell Adolphus May 10, 2024...