Neighbors Explain What Protests Against Systemic Racism Mean To Them November 24, 2020 Neighbors Explain What Protests Against Systemic Racism Mean To Them2020-11-242020-11-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/dee-dwyer-e1606222378764.jpg200px200px Above photo: Hours after a D.C. police officer fatally shot Deon Kay in early September, protesters converged outside the 7th District police station. Dee Dwyer / DCist. Voices of Wards 7 and 8. Demonstrators took to the D.C. streets in late May, protesting police brutality and the systemic […]
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As Racism Plagues Health Care, Unions Offer A Treatment By Alex J. Rouhandeh, The American Prospect. November 23, 2020 As Racism Plagues Health Care, Unions Offer A Treatment2020-11-232020-11-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/unions.jpg200px200px Above photo: Members of SEIU 1199 New England marched last summer to demand new laws to protect long-term caregivers and consumers, July 23, 2020, in Hartford, Connecticut. Jessica Hill/AP. Health care workers of color are twice as likely […]
The AMA Officially Recognized Racism As A Public-Health Threat By Bill Bostock and Anna Medaris Miller, Business Insider. November 20, 2020 The AMA Officially Recognized Racism As A Public-Health Threat2020-11-202020-11-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/blm.jpg200px200px Above photo: Bryce Hill stands in line to vote while wearing his “Black Lives Matter” mask at the Durham County Library on the first day of early voting in Durham, North Carolina on October 15, 2020. Cornell Watson/Getty/Washington Post. […]
Racism In Britain Has A Long If Contested History By Angelique Richardson, Black Agenda Report. November 14, 2020 Racism In Britain Has A Long If Contested History2020-11-142020-11-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/britcolored_-_845x400-e1605376430329.jpeg200px200px The Brits practiced a nonjudicial form of Jim Crow against non-white immigrants from their colonial empire. “Racialization is one way of dividing labor and resources along unjust and oppressive lines; class is another.” The demobilized troopship HMT Empire Windrush that arrived at […]
Racism, Repression, And Fightback In The USA By the Alliance for Global Justice. November 7, 2020 Racism, Repression, And Fightback In The USA2020-11-072020-11-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/natlguard-e1604779285553.jpg200px200px Above photo: National Guard in Philadelphia City Center. From YouTube. November 2020 report highlights. Now more than ever, we need to debunk the myth that human rights are an issue in other countries, but not here in the U.S. A re-surged movement against […]
Anthony Joshua’s upcoming opponent Kubrat Pulev was hit with accusations of racial insensitivity after saying the Englishman had a “better tan” than him, but says that his comments were taken out of context. Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn confirmed Friday that the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight champion will put his belts on the line against Pulev on Saturday, Dec. 12, but the Bulgarian already faces […]
It’s always confusing when Black celebrities gather around to pontificate about what needs to be done for Black America, like rapper Ice Cube, CNN pundit Van Jones, and others did on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk this week. In the U.S., we’re supposed to be interested in political and historical analyses by crafty capitalists rather than by those who are currently living under the failed […]
A game show that asks audiences whether or not to award someone U.S. citizenship sounds like a twisted kind of dystopia. But for the co-creators of American Dreams, an interactive production staging live online performances through Nov. 15, that unsettling premise is closer than it may seem to the truth. “Every time you vote, you’re choosing how this country operates,” said Tamilla Woodard, director and co-creator […]
User-generated review site Yelp has unveiled a ‘racism alert’ feature – an icon that will appear on the pages of businesses accused of discrimination. Reviewing is frozen while the accusations are investigated. Trumpeting its “zero tolerance policy to racism,” the site announced the new feature in a blog post on Thursday, explaining that while it’s great that many users have been using Yelp to air their […]
Marseilles defender Alvaro Gonzalez says PSG star Neymar “isn’t worthy of his respect” as he slammed the Brazil forward over the racism row which exploded in the aftermath of the meeting between the two teams last month. Neymar accused Gonzalez of branding him a “monkey son of a b*tch” in PSG’s ill-tempered defeat to Marseille at Parc de Princes in September, during which the Brazilian was sent off after […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0e/1080450777_0:102:2480:1497_1200x675_80_0_0_bac7529c1ef1a302876cef7be43252af.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Max Gorbachev. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/sport/202009301080624473-neymar-who-has-claimed-he-was-victim-of-racism-reportedly-called-opponent-chinese-st/ Spanish media claim that the Brazilian forward also insulted Marseille defender Alvaro Gonzalez two weeks ago when his side suffered a defeat. Reports say the 28-year-old made homophobic slurs at his opponent. Football star Neymar racially abused Marseille’s Japanese player Hiroki Sakai, calling him “Chinese sh**”, Spanish radio station Cadena SER reported, citing obtained footage. Videos posted […]
Episodes of three popular Adult Swim series—Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Boondocks, and The Shivering Truth—have been removed from streaming due to current “sensitivities,” The Daily Beast has learned exclusively. Eagle-eyed Redditors first noted the absence of Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s Season 6 episode “Shake Like Me” from the series’ page on HBO Max in June. In the 2009 episode, titled in homage to John Howard […]
VT: VT is proud to have been attacked for being both virulent anti-Semites and by white supremacists as Zionist Jews. This editorial by the Los Angeles Times is history, it is worthwhile and it is necessary. VT has one rule, we hate bad people without regard to race, religion, sexual preference or species. Every day we clean out comments loaded with racism, some by trolls but […]
Let’s Talk About Racism And Health By Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. September 26, 2020 Let’s Talk About Racism And Health2020-09-262020-09-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/racismhealth-e1601060861975.jpg200px200px The current uprising across the nation is a take-off moment for systemic racism in the United States. A take-off moment occurs when awareness about a crisis reaches a level of public consciousness where an event (in this case, the recent high-profile police murders of Breonna Taylor […]
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced on Wednesday that only one officer, former Det. Brett Hankison, would be indicted in connection to the March 13 shooting death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman. One expert tells Sputnik the emerging details on evidence provided to the grand jury proves “the whole system is broken.” Eugene Puryear, host of BreakThrough News and author of the book “Shackled […]
While one could fairly question how much influencers have given to us—as a species and a society—it’s undeniable that they’re real innovators when it comes to finding ways to be weird about race. Whether it’s blackfishing or posting black squares on Instagram as though that somehow supports Black Lives Matter, influencers just have a knack for being thoroughly embarrassing. And now they have a new medium: […]
Late in his monologue Wednesday night, Jimmy Kimmel brought up the bare minimum charges that were filed against the police officers who killed Breonna Taylor. “Many are upset. There are protests in Louisville and elsewhere as well,” the host said. “So the president, as he is known to do, took a moment to offer words of healing and unity and condolences to the Taylor family.” Asked […]
The US considers China a “revisionist power” seeking to upend the post-Cold War world order, but what Americans misunderstand about China is that competition doesn’t necessarily mean a fight to the death for supremacy, a journalist told Sputnik. In fact, Washington’s reaction might just provoke China into chasing that goal. Peter Lavelle, host of RT’s “CrossTalk,” told Radio Sputnik’s Fault Lines on Monday that what Westerners […]
In October of 2006, the FBI released an intelligence assessment titled, “White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement.” Though the document—culled from FBI investigations and open sources—was heavily redacted, it reached a number of disturbing conclusions. The assessment revealed that white supremacists “have historically engaged in strategic efforts to infiltrate and recruit from law enforcement communities”; that many of these white-supremacist infiltrators are known as “ghost skins” […]
When the coronavirus began ravaging New York City, Chenghui Zhang’s parents begged her to return to China. But Zhang, who is 25 and also goes by the adopted first name Helen, would not leave her adopted home of nearly seven years. “It was very scary, but I told them that it was better for me to not move for now,” Zhang told The Daily Beast on […]
It is, allegedly, the last time we will see Richard Nelson’s Apple family during the pandemic. How are the liberal, white, arty, upstate-dwelling American upper-middle classes feeling as lockdown eases and the election approaches? The last of a trio of plays, Incidental Moments of the Day suggests the answer is, as confined and confused as the rest of us. Here again, discussing, needling, laughing, and consoling […]
In the fall of 2018, I returned to my hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to help fix a broken health department. Among other scandals, the agency had failed to follow through on monitoring for possible lead poisoning among local children. As the only Black woman health officer in the state, the luster of being in the role wore off rather quickly. Mostly, I found myself praying that […]
Pinterest The Zoot Suit Riots: Causes, Significance, and Legacy by Robert Longely/Thought.Co Health Editor’s Note: The TV series, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (Showtime) is a good interpretation of this time and pretty entertaining in the bargain…..Carol The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of violent conflicts that occurred from June 3 to June 8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, during which U.S. servicemen attacked young Latinos and […]
Her remarks come as protests against racial discrimination and police brutality are continuing in the United States. The demonstrations were reignited after an officer shot a black man in the back seven times in the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin. Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris has blasted President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr over their comments about systemic racism in the United States. “I […]
Trump “inadvertently” made a crude sexual comment about Cohen’s 15-year-old daughter, saying: “Look at that piece of ass. I would love some of that.” Trump said: “Tell me one country run by a black person that isn’t a shithole. They are all complete fucking toilets,” Cohen claims, and praised apartheid-era South Africa, saying: “Mandela fucked the whole country up. Now it’s a shithole. Fuck Mandela. He […]
As she was putting together her portfolio collection during her last year as a fashion student at Parsons School of Design, Najla A. Burt called her mother for help. She needed to come up with a name for her clothing line. “We had a conversation around why she should not make her label her name,” Cynthia Burt, Najla’s mother, recalled in an interview with The Daily […]
Michael Cohen claims in his new book that Donald Trump repeatedly insulted minorities during his 2016 campaign and dismissed them as “not my people,” according to an excerpt of Cohen’s book published by The Washington Post late Saturday. Cohen’s Disloyal: A Memoir describes how Trump also said he’d “never get the Hispanic vote” because “like the Blacks, they’re too stupid to vote for Trump.” Trump’s “low […]
Theatre for One: Here We Are boils drama down to essentials: one viewer, one actor, and a visceral live-wire connection that manages to transcend physical space. Presented by Arts Brookfield and billed as a digital theatrical experience, the eight micro-plays burn fast and bright, pairing one performer with one audience member for a live two-way video call. Written, performed, and directed by Black, indigenous, and other […]
John Boyega is not letting Disney off the hook for how Star Wars mishandled his character. In his first major interview since Rise of Skywalker premiered last winter, the actor called out the way Finn and Kelly Marie Tran’s character, Rose Tico, were sidelined. “Like, you guys knew what to do with Daisy Ridley, you knew what to do with Adam Driver,” Boyega told British GQ. […]
Two House Democrats are urging the nation’s top intelligence official to make public what they argue is crucial information about the extent to which foreign actors are exploiting recent racial and social unrest in the U.S. to advance their own agendas. In a September 1 letter obtained by The Daily Beast, Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Val Demings (D-FL), members of the House Intelligence Committee, thank […]
As a Black queer millennial, I’m often told I’m strong. For my mere existence alone is often said to be an act of resilience. I live in a world where people who look like me are being extrajudicially killed by cops on viral videos. A global pandemic is taking away my skinfolk more rapidly than any other population. And bigotry, H.I.V., gun violence, opioids, and poverty […]
On Contact: Public Monuments And Racism August 30, 2020 On Contact: Public Monuments And Racism2020-08-302020-08-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/oncontact-e1598805555902.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges, in his second interview with Professor James W Loewen, discusses public monuments and statues, who puts them up and why, and what may replace them. Prof Loewen is the author of ‘Lies Across America: What Our Historical Markers and Monuments Get Wrong’. “The […]
I attended my very first Sundance Film Festival in January of 1997. I loved the energy and the community that came together around a shared passion for independent film and the discovery of new filmmakers. But when the lights came on, I saw very few people in the audience who looked like me. It was mostly white men. Were there Black filmmakers who didn’t know about […]