President Obama Delivers Remarks on 50th Anniversary of March on Washington
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50 years after March on Washington, economic gap between blacks, whites persists
Watch the 50th Anniversary of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech LIVE Wednesday 11:30 a.m. ET From WashingtonPost: When President Obama takes the stage at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington, he will symbolize a big part of the complicated story of the nation’s…
Five Controversial Decisions to Watch From the Supreme Court Next Week
From Colorlines: We’re all waiting on five very important decisions from the Supreme Court. It handed down just three unrelated decisions [yesterday]. That surprised many observers since the term comes to a close next week, and leaves a lot hanging in balance. The court will now hand down five controversial…
CI: An interview with author and former prisoner Shawn Griffith ~ Angola 3 News
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at…
Hispanic High School Graduates Pass Whites In Rate Of College Enrollment
From Pew Hispanic Research Center: This milestone is the result of a long-term increase in Hispanic college-going that accelerated with the onset of the recession in 2008 (Fry and Lopez, 2012). The rate among white high school graduates, by contrast, has declined slightly since 2008. The positive trends in Hispanic…
Revelations: Rise Like Lions…
“… Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number – Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you – Ye are many – they are few.” ~from The Mask of Anarchy, Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819 (8)
Tell the NRA, the White House, and Your Senators ~ No!! to More Police in Schools
With Police in Schools, More Children in Court, New York Times Since the early 1990s, thousands of districts, often with federal subsidies, have paid local police agencies to provide armed “school resource officers” for high schools, middle schools and sometimes even elementary schools. Hundreds of additional districts, including those in…
For Middle-Class White Girls When Being Privileged Isn’t Enough
From Clutch: Suzy did what any self-respecting privileged, young, white woman would do — she used her familial connections with the WSJ to pave the way for her brilliant op-ed, which otherwise may have languished in darkness, never to be seen by human eyes. This literary phenomenon, which places the…