When Patricia Arquette accepted her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress last night, she brought up equality for women and said, “To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It’s our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal […]
Alabama: WAFF reported that a high school history club’s trip to see the historical civil rights film Selma, was denied approval by DeKalb County school superintendent Hugh Taylor over concerns of language. Taylor, who identifies as a Christian and a Republican, has not seen the PG-13 film, but claims he is concerned about obscene and […]
An emotional dashcam video shows a Billings, Montana, police officer wailing and pounding his fist on the hood of a police car, saying he thought the suspect was going to pull a gun on him. The emotional dash-cam video shows Officer Grant Morrison shooting at suspect Richard Ramirez from outside the car then in tears […]
In 1992, just after the Rodney King riots, The Oprah Winfrey Show conducted an experiment about racial prejudice that ruffled many of her audience members’ feathers. Just like today, racial tensions were high, and the experiment proves racism is learned behavior –not an inherent point of view. Oprah’s audience members were divided into two groups. […]
#CrimingWhileWhite is a growing movement of white people sharing stories of how, when they were caught doing something illegal by police, they were treated with kid gloves compared to the way black people might be treated. As more and more white people publicly admit that they aren’t always held to the same harsher standards that black people are, it will become increasingly […]