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Calling out racism is where you point out that something is racist. It might not seem like a big deal, but it is an important part of fighting racism. It can even stop genocide, as crazy as that sounds.

 

Genocide: Genocides unfold in eight stages.

"6. Prejudice is not logical. That makes [racism] hard to disprove, logically. It can be confirmed by facts (one loud-mouthed black woman) but never disproved (a hundred quiet black women). It works in a part of the brain that deals with feeling, not thought."

Of course, such a question is a bit more hopeful than I usually am and is slightly dangerous per se. But is there something to it? This week Sebastien De La Cruz has been a focus across the media, ...

It happens to be Loving Day which is what prompted me to finally get around to posting about the Cheerios.  Happy Loving Day! Interracial Marriage (black/white) has been legal for a grand total of....

I saw this video when it ABC TV did this experiment on "What Would You Do?" on racial profiling and discrimination, and the site Upworthy just posted the video again. It is a must watch if you have...

Sesame Street has produced a 30-minute program for kids dealing with parents in jail, not for regular broadcast but to be sent to schools and therapists.

Fourteen-year-old Tremaine McMillian didn't threaten police. He didn't attack them. He wasn't armed. All the black teenager did was appear threatening by sho...

Interview with Philip Emeagwali @ IOD London

"Dr. Bryan Brayboy at ASU often uses the term “Genesis Amnesia” (from Pierre Bourdieu) to discuss how, especially in regards to Indigenous and colonized peoples, we often forget the beginning. Everything becomes normalized–the power structures, the historical narrative taught in schools, policies towards Indigenous Peoples–and society accepts this as “the way it’s always been” and stops wondering why. Hegemonic power structures rely on us forgetting the beginning."

Families affected by excessive border enforcement are sending a direct message through a YouTube video to Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer.

What do you expect when you ask a terrible question in a ridiculous setting?

Medgar Evers (1925-1963), a martyr of the American civil rights movement, died 50 years ago today on June 12th 1963. He was the head of the NAACP in Mississippi, the most racist state in the nation...

Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig reflects on the NSA controversy and lays out his plan for comprehensive campaign finance reform. 

Plus, Columbia professor Farah Jasmine Griffin talks about the history of surveillance in the civil rights movement, and her new text, Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II.

Journalist Sheryl McCarthy talks with newsmakers about their sources of inspiration. She has private conversations about public affairs issues with the peopl...

Washington (CNN) - Making an argument for overhauling the nation's immigration system Friday to a crowd of conservative activists, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush claimed immigrants were "more fertile" and thus a great benefit to American society.

This is one massive reality check, folks.

Are White Americans the good guys of history? There are two main answers to this: No, of course not: Genocide, slavery, Jim Crow, wars of empire in Mexico, the Caribbean, Philippines, Vietnam, Iraq...

"You may have seen this story making the gossip rounds: at Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel’s wedding, Timberlake’s longtime real estate agent made a congratulatory gag video, featuring footage of homeless people from L.A. giving the couple their congratulations.  Gawker went public with it yesterday, and their write-up covers its “greatest hits,” as it were:"

Here are the common signs in American film and television that a character is an ethnic or racial stereotype. Any one of these might be innocent, but each is a red flag. In this post I use "ethnic"...