racism

Journii Perkins yawns as her grandmother Cheryl Givens-Perkins brushes sister Camille's hair as they get ready for church. By ANN M. SIMMONS Three weeks after Cassaundra Lynn Perkins gave birth to premature twins, she returned to the hospital, feeling unwell. She phoned her mother from her...

Celia was facing the gallows when she went on trial in 1855 for the murder of the white slave owner who had been raping her. She warned the white slave owner that the rapes had to stop. Celia, 19, had endured five years of assaults by Robert Newsom, the Missouri widower in his 70s who’d...

The history of racism and exclusion in the United States is the history of whiteness. A generation ago, as the culture wars raged, Toni Morrison often stood at the front lines, demanding the desegregation of the American literary canon. In her Tanner Lectures in 1988, and later in her book...

Unlike earlier generations, the influential demographic doesn't view mental illness as a sign of weakness. The rebellious streak many children are born with has stayed with one increasingly influential demographic through young adulthood, as Black millennials have embraced the topic of mental...

Duane E. Buck barged into his girlfriend’s Texas home after she broke up with him and killed her and a friend. Later that morning in July 1995, he fired a rifle at his stepsister, who survived because the bullet just missed her heart. His guilt was never in doubt, and Mr. Buck, 54, who is...

:mindblown::wow::wtf: I wish she left her name so the wolves could go to work on her... I notice she keep bringing up white talking points, black on black crime, welfare, chicago, all blacks commit ALL THE CRIME IN AMERICA... :dahell: which isnt true... America is a huge place so that statement...

This some true shyt right here :ohhh::picard:

Treva Lindsey's new book explores the details of Washington, D.C.'s unique status as a hotbed of cultural and political activism by Black Women in D.C. in the late 1800's and early 1900's-- a time when both gender and racial roles were quickly shifting...

As Doug Andreassen, the chairman of US Soccer’s diversity task force, looks across the game he loves, all he can see is a system broken in America. And he wonders why nobody seems to care. He sees well-to-do families spending thousands of dollars a year on soccer clubs that propel their...

:mjpls: and this was the post the Based God got banned for...

Her birthday was October 6, 1917

(long read): The deadliness of the opioid epidemic has roots in America’s failed response to crack