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Opinion: Sheryl Swoopes is right: Black people can't be racist
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 3 months agoUniversity of Iowa point guard Caitlin Clark celebrates after a victory over Ohio State on March 3....
Letters to the Editor: The idea that Black people cannot be racist is preposterous
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA former WNBA star's remarks about Caitlin Clark, with the basketball above, led to a debate over...
Documentary ponders inquiry into events that shook the nation — and Detroit — in 1967
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 2 months agoRecalling a debate between Kerner Commission members, former Sen. Fred Harris says the vote to...
55 years ago, the Kerner Report predicted that divisions driven by racism could lead to the...
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOPINION: The report was refreshingly honest about the impact of systemic racism and ways to address...
Looking back: PBS' 'The Riot Report' features former Sen. Fred Harris
Albuquerque Journal, N.M. via Yahoo News· 1 month agoMay 17—Times have changed — at least we'd like to think so. United States Sen. Fred Harris was thrust into the national spotlight in 1967, when violence broke out in Black communities across ...
‘Riotsville, USA’ Shows the Birth of Police Militarization
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCourtesy of Magnolia PicturesAfter the 2014 police killing of Laquan McDonald, Chicago officials...
Review: 'Riotsville, USA' evokes a law-and-order past hauntingly similar to the present
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe documentary “Riotsville, USA” is, on the surface, a movie about America in the late 1960s, at a time when nightly news stories about civil unrest provoked citizens and politicians alike ...
The complex history of African Americans and the news
Newsy via AOL· 4 months agoA mosaic image of the civil rights leader and journalist Ida B. Wells The news is in when it comes...
The Ambitions of the Civil Rights Movement Went Far Beyond Affirmative Action
Time via Yahoo News· 12 months agoMartin Luther King, Jr. (fourth from left), A. Philip Randolph (second from right), and other civil...
Efforts to diversify The Augusta Chronicle newsroom, news coverage continue
The Augusta Chronicle via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTwo years ago, I told you about the Kerner Commission report from the 1960s and the opportunities...