News Release Category: People of Color
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Destroying Black Cemeteries: Development or Desecration?
Coleman-Adebayo said today that the “Black burial site at Moses Cemetery, a historic 18th century site, is being destroyed” to put up self-storage units.
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Labor Day: Tipping Point for Restaurant Workers?
Many restaurant workers are increasing their organizing and their demands for ending the tipped minimum wage. Last year, the House passed a bill doing just that, but the Senate refused to consider it.
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Big Media and DNC: Distinguishing Policy Criticism from Slurs
Robin Andersen, a professor of graduate studies at Fordham University writes on the criticism of VP-nominated Kamala Harris. Andersen writes, “Yet emerging as a corporate media frame is a sloppy, mystifying confusion that refuses to distinguish the racist and sexist slurs against Harris from an authentic discussion of the trajectory of her political positions, and…
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Mount Rushmore: Tip of Iceberg
“Mount Rushmore is named after a gold prospector who had illegally entered into Lakota treaty territory to begin prospecting. … The Black Hills [where Mount Rushmore is located] were also a place of origin and a place of cultural and spiritual significance for over 50 Indigenous nations.
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Trump and Barr Turn to Joint Terrorism Task Force to Crush Protests
It’s important to remember what actually happened with the Occupy Movement, a remarkable protest against inequality, corporate power, and the corrupt Wall Street banks whose recklessness had caused the 2008 financial crisis.
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Billionaires Deforming Education?
We must heed the growing body of research and support communities and civil-rights organizations in their calls for a more accurate and nuanced understanding of the problems facing our schools, a retreat from failed ‘reforms,’ and better solutions.
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Lack of Union Jobs “Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class”
As a new generation has taken to the streets with demands for social transformation, we need to look back a half century to a time when the quest for equal employment opportunity gave rise to an African American blue-collar middle class. During the 1960s and 1970s, blacks with no more than high-school educations gained significant…