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It's time to recognize our history of lynchings as a form of racial terrorism. Here's what it means today Via Jocelyn Stoller 
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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal wants "hyphenated Americans" to "integrate and assimilate." Via Jocelyn Stoller
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The Jewish population in Europe has dropped significantly over the last several decades – most dramatically in Eastern Europe and the countries that make up the former Soviet Union.
It’s been seven decades since the end of the Holocaust, an event that decimated the Jewish population in Europe. In the years since then, the number of European Jews has continued to decline for a variety of reasons. And now, concerns over renewed anti-Semitism on the continent have prompted Jewish leaders to talk of a new “exodus” from the region.
There are still more than a million Jews living in Europe, according to 2010 Pew Research Center estimates. But that number has dropped significantly over the last several decades – most dramatically in Eastern Europe and the countries that make up the former Soviet Union, according to historical research by Sergio DellaPergola of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Tags: Judaism, religion, Europe.
Aleena Reyes's curator insight,
May 7, 2015 12:00 AM
It comes as no surprise to me that the Jewish population would drop in Eastern and Western Europe. Anti-Semitic feelings are deeply embedded in Europe and do not see them going away soon, especially since it is currently rising. 
Raymond Dolloff's curator insight,
December 15, 2015 1:13 AM
Granted the Holocaust was nearly 80 years ago, much of the Jewish population have grown roots in countries that were not affected by the way Hitler persecuted the Jewish religion. The Eastern part of Europe is seeing the largest decline because that part of Europe saw the worst of the persecution of Jews.
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Before its subversion in the Jim Crow era, the fruit symbolized black self-sufficiency.
The stereotype that African Americans are excessively fond of watermelon emerged for a specific historical reason and served a specific political purpose. The trope came into full force when slaves won their emancipation during the Civil War. Free black people grew, ate, and sold watermelons, and in doing so made the fruit a symbol of their freedom. Southern whites, threatened by blacks’ newfound freedom, responded by making the fruit a symbol of black people’s perceived uncleanliness, laziness, childishness, and unwanted public presence. This racist trope then exploded in American popular culture, becoming so pervasive that its historical origin became obscure."
Tags: culture, racism, historical.
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For those of us who consider ourselves progressive, it’s not enough to, as Andrea Smith puts it in Conquest, “bemoan the genocide of Native peoples” while “implicitly [sanctioning] it by refusing to question the legitimacy of the settler nation responsible for this genocide.”
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Diversity is a serious problem in the tech industry. In recent months, major companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon have released statistics showing the severe lack of women and...
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Fox News host Andrea Tantaros said on Monday that President Barack Obama had contributed to making race relations worse than any time in U.S. history, but she gave him “credit” for going to school and marrying the mother of his children. Via Jocelyn Stoller
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We’re living in a post-racial America, right? Then why is identifying as more than one race still so hard?
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The shattering events of 2014, beginning with Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri, in August, did more than touch off a national debate about police behavior, criminal justice and widening inequality in America. They also gave a new birth of passion and energy to a civil rights movement that had almost faded into history, and which had... Via Jocelyn Stoller
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In states like North Carolina and Georgia, the black share of registered voters remains low among those who reached voting age before 1965. Via Jocelyn Stoller
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Registrars once administered easy poll tests to white applicants and impossible ones to black applicants. Via Jocelyn Stoller
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Are "imposed unum" standardized achievement tests also similarily biased (unintentionally) against students of color, thus creating the mythical "achievement gap?"
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Congress passed a measure that would give lands sacred to Native Americans in Arizona to a foreign company. Via Jocelyn Stoller
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“Tzafar”, a short film directed by Greek filmmaker Nancy Spetsioti, tells about the daily acts of racism that happen so often, they’re considered normal. It’s a powerful film with a very important message. Via Jocelyn Stoller
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Race/Ethnicity and Mental Health: Stigmatized Identities
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The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris by Jonathan Kirsch On the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht comes this untold story of a teenager whose act of defiance would have dire international consequences. On the morning of November 7, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a desperate seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, walked into the German embassy in Paris and shot Ernst vom Rath, a Nazi diplomat. Two days later vom Rath lay dead, and the Third Reich exploited the murder to unleash Kristallnacht—its horrific campaign of terror against Germany’s Jewish citizens in a bizarre concatenation of events that would rapidly involve Ribbentrop, Goebbels, and Hitler himself. Bestselling author Jonathan Kirsch brings to light this wrenching story, reexamining the historical details and moral dimensions of one of World War II’s most enigmatic cases. Was Grynszpan a deranged lone gunman or psychopath, as Hannah Arendt claimed, or was he an early resistance fighter? Had this young man and his victim shared an intimate connection, as Grynszpan later claimed? Kirsch illuminates a life cast into the shadows of history in a compelling biography that is part page-turning historical thriller and part Kafkaesque legal drama. Via Ann Chambers Theis
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After compiling an inventory of 3,959 lynching victims in 12 Southern states from 1877 to 1950, the Equal Justice Initiative wants to erect markers and memorials on certain sites.
Tags: race, conflict, racism, historical, the South, landscape.
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The star of new Martin Luther King movie Selma speaks to Ryan Gilbey about insulting roles for black actors – and defends his friend Benedict Cumberbatch
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Memories of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau scarred survivors and those who liberated it forever Via Jocelyn Stoller
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"In the United States, there is a long tradition of trying to draw sharp lines between ethnic groups, but our ancestry is a fluid and complex matter. In recent years geneticists have been uncovering new evidence about our shared heritage, and last week a team of scientists published the biggest genetic profile of the United States to date, based on a study of 160,000 people."
Edgar Manasseh Jr.'s curator insight,
January 28, 2015 11:58 PM
Some people like to distant themselves form a certain ethnic background, when we are all one. Europeans came from one area same with latinos, blacks and natives we all are similar. Africans have a major influence to who Europeans are and also who most of the americans did descend from so theres a possible connection somewhere. 
Rachel Phillips's curator insight,
January 29, 2015 12:50 PM
This article was very intriguing, especially because there have been so many migrations and movements of people in the U.S. When you think about it, people were already here, and then Europeans came, and then they brought over Africans. But, since then, people from all over the world have continuously moved here and spread throughout the country. In this map, you can see each region, and it's almost just how you would imagine it to be. The south has more people who think that have some amount of African ancestry, and with the amount of slavery that had occurred, that makes sense. However, the line between the percentage of African decent you have that makes you to be considered white, and then one percent more and you are African-American, is a bit bizarre to me. In reality, in today's society, we are just as focussed on who is what race as they were a hundred years ago, whereas it actually should not matter anymore. But, we don't live in a perfect world, and people need to be willing to work to get to that point. 
Chris Costa's curator insight,
September 16, 2015 10:05 AM
I found this article particularly interesting because my father recently had a DNA test done. As a Portuguese immigrant, he was surprised to find how varied of a background he comes from, with significant parts of his DNA tracing its origins to Southern Europe (outside the Iberian Peninsula, which only constituted 50% of his markers), the British Isles, Northern Africa, and West Africa. What I think everyone should take away from this article is that the human species is a beautiful mosaic of intermingling cultures and nationalities, especially here in the United States. We are all a part of each other, despite a past filled with hate (the article discusses a Pocahontas Law in Virginia that honestly had me chuckling at the hypocrisy of the legislators who drafted it) and issues of race that continue to plague us a society to this day. Race is entirely a social construct, and issues of white and black become meaningless when you look at data such as that complied in this article. A very interesting read.
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Defining racism isn't easy. The definition of racism has evolved over time, and everyone experiences it differently. Here we discuss Micro Vs. Macro racism. Via Annabel Kaye
Razeen Nasher's curator insight,
January 9, 2015 8:05 PM
You’d think it’s pretty self explanatory, but it’s not. Racism cannot be easily defined in a sentence, because it has multiple definitions, it’s evolved over the centuries, and people experience it differently.
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"Shut up and listen!" With these instructions running through their heads, a group of about 1,000 adults convened on the rooftop of a downtown Oakland garage. Via Jocelyn Stoller
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There are 160 known, active Ku Klux Klan chapters in the United States, according to research from the Southern Poverty Law Center. How many are near you? Here's an interactive map. RELATED STORIES... Via Deanna Dahlsad
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Awareness of one's opponents cannot be over-estimated as a good preparation for the defense of one's beliefs.
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I came from the kind of Poor that people don't want to believe still exists in this country. Via Jocelyn Stoller
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