Carninval takes place every year in Trinidad. It is a three day festival right before the start of Lent, the 40 days before Easter in the Catholic Church. Thousands of people practice for months to present a series of shows culminating in a day long march. There is much merrymaking and calypso singing and [...]
The president said the criminal justice system is unfair to Blacks, that they are imprisoned unfairly and sentenced far longer than others, and these injustices breed yet more crime that is punished unjustly in a vicious, never-ending cycle. President Obama said we are not in a post-racial society, that racism is alive and well [...]
(This is the full text of President Barack Obama's comments on July 19, 2013 on the Trayvon Martin case.) I wanted to come out here, first of all, to tell you that Jay is prepared for all your questions and is very much looking forward to the session. The second thing is I want [...]
No one will save us but us. We cannot wait for the president. We cannot wait for the Attorney General. We cannot wait for the NAACP. We cannot wait for the courts. We cannot wait period. They arrest us in droves for any reason or no reason. And once we get to court, they [...]
Expect Zimmerman to be found guilty of manslaughter and receive substantial jail time. After he shot the unarmed, 17 year old Trayvon Martin, the cops told him to go home and forget it. Massive demonstrations subsequently swept the nation. And so he was charged with homicide and the police chief lost his job. Were Zimmerman [...]
(Derek Harp is a terrific writer. Here he is raw and uncensored!) It’s 5:30, time to get up. This is the last day of work before my 3 days off. I got out of the bed rubbing my arms for heat. This was a good indication of the type of weather I would have today. [...]
June 4, 2013 MIAMI – According to a new report by the ACLU, blacks were arrested for marijuana possession at 4.2 times the rate of whites in 2010, despite comparable marijuana usage rates. The report, Marijuana in Black and White: Billions of Dollars Wasted on Racially Biased Arrests, released today, is the first ever [...]
I think he's one. What difference does it make? None. Personally, I don't care one way or the other. Then why'd you mention it? Why can't I? It's just an observation. I'm just making an observation, that's all. But if it doesn't make a difference why are you "observing" it? Why shouldn't I? Because, [...]
It started with a dignified, matronly lady refusing to give up her seat on the bus, and it ended with more than 100 cities aflame. Martin Luther King did not launch the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, but he soon emerged as its champion and the leader of the civil rights movement that [...]
Reading is not what you think it is. It is so much more, and it is so much less. We do it so automatically we never think about what it is we are doing. Look at the perspective of the person who cannot read. Everything that they know, everything that they understand must be [...]