racism Archive
Browsing my favorite time waster(thanks Reddit!) the other day I came upon a sentiment that made me hunker down and think about the race issue in America. The comment was that the 7 year olds of this country have never …
Written by Nikole Hannah-Jones ProPublica, March 4, 2015, 8:14 p.m. This story was co-published with Politico Magazine. Last July 4, my family and I went to Long Island to celebrate the holiday with a friend and her family. After eating some …
Discrimination exists. Racism, sexism, ageism, anti-Semitism, and every other “ism” that separates people into groups exist. And, so grouped, in some instances, some people experience reduced privilege. In some instances some people experience reduced rights. In some instances some people …
I will go out on the limb here and say more talk about racism will do little to change the plight of the good citizens of Ferguson or the poor and middle class in this country in the near term. …
It started benignly enough, a passing comment about an email that my mother received from a far-away cousin. And then instantly it changed. You see, that far-away cousin forwarded a ‘news’ story portraying a subversive take over within American culture. …
The news has been chilling this week. Two unarmed young black men were killed by police officers in a St. Louis suburb and in the city of Los Angeles. We also got word that American icon Robin Williams took his …
Two parties were thrown by University of Southern California students and were occurring on the same street at the same time. One party was predominantly made up of White students, the other was predominately made up of Black students. One of the parties was …
45 years ago today the world lost a leader in Human Rights. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis at the age of 39. Mr. King remains as one of the best examples of
by Michelle Sicignano, LMSW, Staff Writer, Social Justice Solutions Most of us by now have heard the news reports of Rhonda Lee, the African American female meteorologist fired for responding to a viewers Facebook criticism of her hair style. These two links relate the details: Meteorologist fired after responding to viewer …
By Georgianna Reilly, LMSW SJS Staff Writer This discussion couldn’t come at a better time than right after our Thanksgiving feast here in America. In this article by CNN the author discusses pop culture and the fashion industry’s rocky relationship …
