Former Democratic President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter sat down with Oprah Winfrey for this weekend’s “SuperSoul Sunday” interview, telling her that growing up as the only white child in a predominantly black community had a profoundly positive impact on his life. Born James Earl Carter, Jr. on October 1, 1924, he grew […]
Progressive icon Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) gave a speech on racial inequality that is exactly what Black Lives Matter activists have been wanting to hear. Warren delivered the remarks in Boston on Sunday at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, as part of the Institute’s “Getting to the Point” speaker series. […]
Republican presidential hopefuls are talking about Latinos and Latinos are listening. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump launched his campaign accusing Mexico of “bringing their worst people” to the United States, claiming “they’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some I assume are good people but I speak to border guards and they tell […]
A known white supremacist and former correctional officer posted a six-minute video rant on Tuesday calling for violence against black anti-police activists. Nathan Ener, who worked as a Texas Department of Criminal Justice officer until 1999, encouraged viewers to attack black protesters with firearms, rocks and slingshots and promised to hunt them down to their […]
Controversy raged from coast to coast in the wake of the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man who was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, 28, a white Ferguson police officer. The circumstances of the shooting, the resultant protests and civil unrest, and the failure of a grand jury to hand down an […]