updated Wed. February 28, 2024
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Chicago Reader
March 13, 2018
As is usual during pretrial hearings in the case against former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, advocates for police reform packed the pews in Judge Vincent Gaughan's courtroom last Thursday. Among them was 45-year-old Tyrone Williams, an activist with the Chicago Alliance Against Racist andÃâà...
Gizmodo
March 13, 2018
White supremacist carnival barker and sometimes-literal punching bag Richard Spencer, whose ongoing college tour has seen plummeting attendance as the number of potential audience members willing to be seen in his presence diminishes, might call it quits on the whole thing since it's not “fun”Ãâà...
Splinter (blog)
March 13, 2018
National Geographic just showed the media industry what a good first step looks like when it comes to taking real accountability for a racist past. ... The paper finally commemorated the lives obituaries for people like journalist and activist Ida B. Wells, who died in 1931, and LGBTQ rights activists Marsha P.
BurlingtonFreePress.com
March 13, 2018
That's because a federal law may complicate removal of the mural, which activists have called racist for excluding people of color from a visual narrative ... In October, activist Albert Petrarca defaced the mural to draw attention to the "white supremacist and fake history Marketplace mural," as he called it in aÃâà...
Luton Today
March 13, 2018
You have sided with Islamists of Luton. You need to make better decisions ma'am.” Tommy Robinson added: “It looks like they are about to deport @Lauren_Southern from not just Britain but from Europe. The racism they speak about is the enforcement of blasphemy laws . Lauren criticised Islam in LutonÃâà...
SILive.com
March 12, 2018
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Some activists in Asbury Park, N.J., want to have a statue of the city's founder, native Staten Islander James A. Bradley, removed because he was an avowed segregationist, according to a report on NJ.com. Help Not Handcuffs, a local civil rights group, recently started an onlineÃâà...
EFF
March 6, 2018
Flawed rules against hate speech have shut down online conversations about racism and harassment of people of color. Ambiguous “community standards” have prevented Black Lives Matter activists from showing the world the racist messages they receive. Rules against depictions of violence haveÃâà...
Herald Sun
March 6, 2018
People abuse me with racist slurs like “Uncle Tom” or “coconut” or call me a race traitor. That kind of abuse is a deliberate tactic to silence people in an attempt to promote ideology. When I studied community development at university, I was taught Saul Alinsky's book Rules for Radicals. A far-left activist,Ãâà...
Southern Poverty Law Center
March 6, 2018
After multiple Detroit area clubs and restaurants either cancelled or rejected the FMI conference over the weekend, which had been billed as a party with drinks, karaoke, and fun with other white nationalists, the group was hounded by anti-racist activists around the metro area, before ending up holdingÃâà...
Sky News
March 6, 2018
The unpaid role on the LGBT advisory board saw Ms Bergdorf join other activists on the informal, consultative group, which does not have a formal role within the Labour Party. She added: "I accepted a place on the board because I felt that it would be an exciting and effective way of helping to shed light onÃâà...
ColorLines magazine
March 6, 2018
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on “Face the Racist Nation”: “When you make it about ignorance, you're also making it about individual people and you're not making it about power and policy and structures and ... But blaming racism on ignorance has continued to be a popular move—even for some anti-racist activists.
The Root
February 9, 2018
Even better, what if there was another anti-racism activist who was stabbed in the abdomen, chest and hand? What if the police found photos of that man on Facebook holding up the Black Power salute and then wrote a report that it was evidence of his “support for anti-racist activism” and demonstrated hisÃâà...
The Guardian
February 9, 2018
California police investigating a violent white nationalist event worked with white supremacists in an effort to identify counter-protesters and sought the prosecution of activists with “anti-racist” beliefs, court documents show. The records, which also showed officers expressing sympathy with whiteÃâà...
Reason (blog)
February 6, 2018
Frisbee Steve KingsmanStudent activists at the College of Wooster have issued a list of demands, including more funding for the liberal arts college's Center for Diversity and Inclusion, the immediate expulsion of a student currently being investigated for making racist statements online, the hiring of newÃâà...
