The only woman of color on the Supreme Court, Justice Sotomayor, is the only sitting justice on the Court with negative net worth, further illustrating how the racial wealth gap operates at all levels. Ginsburg and Breyer are the wealthiest judges on the Court. From The Center for Responsive Politics:…
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MLK in Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy): “With Selma and the Voting Rights Act one phase of development in the civil rights revolution came to an end. A new phase opened, but few observers realized it or were prepared for its implications. For the…
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People of Color Organize has a new podcast up from Dr. Jared A. Ball discussing his new book, I MIX WHAT I LIKE!: A MIXTAPE MANIFESTO. We discuss the major themes of this important work such as; emancipatory journalism, Internal Colonialism Theory, the role of propaganda on a colonized population,…
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From The Root: Six years after the federal levees failed and 80 percent of the city was flooded, New Orleans has lost 80,000 jobs and 110,000 residents. It is a whiter and wealthier city, with tourist areas well-maintained while communities like the Lower 9th Ward remain devastated. Beyond the statistics,…
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From the LA Times: The trial of a middle school student who shot and killed a gay classmate during a morning computer lab ended in a mistrial Thursday when jurors said that after 17 hours of deliberations they could not agree whether to convict Brandon McInerney. Jurors deadlocked 7 to…
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The United States is not absolved from its role in creating crisis in East Africa. Absent from the conversation is the ongoing U.S. domination of the region along with U.S. complicity with corruption and warfare. Interestingly, the United States-funded Famine Early Warning Systems (FEWS) alerted the “international community” at least…
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From the NYT: A research grant application from a black scientist to the federal National Institutes of Health is markedly less likely to win approval than one from a white scientist, a new study reported on Thursday. Even when the researchers made statistical adjustments to ensure they were comparing apples…
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From Colorlines.com: The increasing lack of racial diversity in the U.S. media landscape is becoming a hot topic and putting pressure on policy makers to (finally) pay attention. As the American Society of Newspaper Editors has reported, racial and ethnic minorities make up less than 13 percent of newsroom employees.…
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