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  • Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code

    Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code The Associated Press 2012-03-24 Jesse Washington, National Writer/Race and Ethnicity PHILADELPHIA (AP) — I thought my son would be much older before I had to tell him about the Black Male Code. He’s only 12, still sleeping with stuffed animals, still afraid of the dark. But…

  • Letter to Governor Paul B. Johnson Jr. and Lieutenant Governor Carroll Gartin

    TO: Honorable Paul B. Johnson, Governor; Honorable Carroll Gartin, Lieutenant Governor FROM: Director, Sovereignty Commission SUBJECT: Louvenia Knight (Williamson) and her two sons, Edgar Williamson, born May 1, 1954, and Randy Williamson, born October 10, 1955

  • Racial Discrimination in Medicine versus Race-Based Medicine: The Ethical, Legal and Policy Implications on Health Disparities

    Racial Discrimination in Medicine versus Race-Based Medicine: The Ethical, Legal and Policy Implications on Health Disparities Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives Volume 3, Issue 1 (Spring 2011) pages 59-86 Christopher Ogolla, LL.M., J.D., M.A., M.P.H., B.A., Academic Support Instructor Thurgood Marshall School of Law Texas Southern University This paper explores the…

  • Racial Capitalism

    The Article focuses on instances of racial capitalism in which white individuals and predominantly white institutions use non-white people to acquire social and economic value. Our affirmative action doctrine provides much of the impetus for this form of racial capitalism. That doctrine has fueled an intense legal and social preoccupation with the notion of diversity,…

  • Cherokee Phoenix: Remarks on the Report of the Committee on Indian Affairs in the House of Representatives

    Cherokee Phoenix: Remarks on the Report of the Committee on Indian Affairs in the House of Representatives Cherokee Phoenix and Indians’ Advocate New Echota, Georgia Wednesday, 1830-03-30 Volume II, Number 50 Page 1, column 1b; Page 2, column 2b Source: Hunter Library, Western Carolina University and Georgia Historic Newspapers We have read that part of…

  • Mildred Loving, Who Battled Ban on Mixed-Race Marriage, Dies at 68

    Mildred Loving, Who Battled Ban on Mixed-Race Marriage, Dies at 68 The New York Times 2008-05-06 Douglas Martin Mildred Loving, a black woman whose anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws, died on May 2 at her home in Central…

  • How the ‘Loving’ Case Changed the US

    How the ‘Loving’ Case Changed the US The Root 2013-06-12 Kelli Goff, Special Correspondent The legacy of the interracial-marriage case looms large on the 46th anniversary of the landmark decision. Forty-six years ago, on June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court ruled that a Virginia law prohibiting Mildred Jeter Loving, who was black, and Richard Loving,…

  • The Truth About Loving v. Virginia and Why it Matters

    The Truth About Loving v. Virginia and Why it Matters MixedRaceStudies.org 2013-06-12 Steven F. Riley On June 12, 1967, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the landmark civil-rights case Loving v. Virginia that Virginia’s anti-miscegenation law (known as the Racial Integrity Act of 1924) was unconstitutional. It did not as some suggest, legalize interracial marriage in the…

  • Marriage, Melanin, and American Racialism

    Marriage, Melanin, and American Racialism Reviews in American History Volume 41, Number 2, June 2013 pages 282-291 DOI: 10.1353/rah.2013.0048 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri Adele Logan Alexander, Parallel Worlds: The Remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the Enduring (In)significance of Melanin. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. 375 pages. Photographs,…

  • ‘Plessy v. Ferguson’: Who Was Plessy?

    ‘Plessy v. Ferguson’: Who Was Plessy? The Root 2013-06-10 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor of History Harvard University 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Learn about the man whose case led to decades of legal segregation. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 35: Who was the Plessy in the Plessy v. Ferguson…