Category: Articles

  • What Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem Protest Tells Us About America Rolling Stone 2016-08-29 Morgan Jerkins When black athletes choose to point their aggression towards larger, systematic inequalities, there’s always backlash The role of the famous black athlete has been a polarizing one for as long as sports have dominated American headlines, going all the way…

  • The San Francisco 49ers quarterback on bucking expectations, riding out the haters and how he does it all with a healthy dose of style

  • Celebrating the 1st Annual Mixed Heritage Day at Dodger Stadium (not) Mixed (up): A Biracial Swirl in a Black and White World 2016-08-28 Shannon Luders-Manuel What happens when a young, mixed race boy asks his mother what ethnic day is meant for him? The Los Angeles Dodgers have special days for certain ethnicities, but none celebrating mixed…

  • Black Intellectual History and STEM: A Conversation with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein AAIHS: African American Intellectual History Society 2016-08-29 Greg Childs, Assistant Professor Departments of History and African and Afro-American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts This month, I interviewed Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on the intersections of black intellectual history and STEM. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical…

  • Meet American Olympian Anthony Ervin: The Oldest-Ever Individual Olympic Swimming Gold Medalist Democracy Now! 2016-08-15 Amy Goodman, Host and Executive Producer While Michael Phelps dominated the Olympic headlines over the weekend by scoring a historic 23rd gold medal, another American male swimmer has also made history in Rio. Thirty-five-year-old Anthony Ervin became the oldest-ever individual…

  • Voices of Slavery: ‘They Were Saving Me For a Breeding Woman’ This Cruel War: An Evidence-Based Exploration of the Civil War, its Causes and Repercussions 2016-08-25 Virginian Luxuries, artist unknown. c1825. During 1929 and 1930, an Africa-American scholar named Ophelia Settle Egypt, conducted nearly 100 interviews with former slaves. Working then at Fisk University, she…

  • Kanye Collaborator Vanessa Beecroft Reveals A Common Misconception About Race Attn: 2016-08-09 Tricia Tongco Vanessa Beecroft is best known as the artist who has collaborated with Kanye West on several of the rapper’s most noteworthy visuals, from the “Runaway” mini-movie to the Yeezy Season 3 fashion show. But thanks to a recently published profile in…

  • This article discuss how the Brazilian example was debated and appropriated by politicians, scientists, and other members of the white US elite, who in the post-abolition period were preparing a nation project which maintained the old slaveholding ideologies of white supremacy and racial segregation, lasting in the country until the twentieth century.

  • Colin Kaepernick explains why he sat during national anthem NFL News National Football League 2016-08-27 Steve Wyche, NFL Media Reporter SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has willingly immersed himself into controversy by refusing to stand for the playing of the national anthem in protest of what he deems are wrongdoings…

  • Colin Kaepernick Protests National Anthem Over Treatment of Minorities ABC News 2016-08-27 Michael Edison Hayden San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem during a preseason game Friday out of protest against America’s treatment of “black people and people of color.” Kaepernick told NFL media he made his own decision…