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  • Collection of demographic data regarding multiracial identification.

    Collection of demographic data regarding multiracial identification. The New York City Council Melissa Mark-Viverito, Speaker 2014-11-25 (Passed 2016-11-13) Int 0551-2014, Version A (2014-11-25) A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the collection of demographic data regarding multiracial identification Proposed Int. No. 551-A would require the Department of Social Services,…

  • Where did Colin Kaepernick get start as an activist?

    Where did Colin Kaepernick get start as an activist? USA TODAY 2016-09-30 Josh Peter They remember the conservative haircut he wore at John Pitman High School, and now they see the Afro and cornrows. They remember his studious and soft-spoken ways from a decade ago, and now they see him refusing to stand for the…

  • Shaun King on Colin Kaepernick: He is Enormously Courageous and Has Sparked a Movement Among Athletes

    Shaun King on Colin Kaepernick: He is Enormously Courageous and Has Sparked a Movement Among Athletes Democracy Now! 2016-10-21 Amy Goodman, Host and Executive Producer Shaun King, Black Lives Matter activist and the senior justice writer for the New York Daily News, discusses NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who continued his protest Sunday against racial oppression…

  • Remapping Race on the Human Genome: Commercial Exploits in a Racialized America

    Remapping Race on the Human Genome: Commercial Exploits in a Racialized America Praeger October 2016 645 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4408-4992-3 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-4993-0 Edited by: Patricia Reid-Merritt, Distinguished Professor of Social Work and Africana Studies Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey Is race simply an antiquated, pseudo-scientific abstraction developed to justify the dehumanization…

  • This mixed race family didn’t ‘see color.’ Then police said a white supremacist killed their son

    This mixed race family didn’t ‘see color.’ Then police said a white supremacist killed their son The Oregonian 2016-10-16 Casey Parks A banner hanging above the couch proclaims it a house divided. “But only when it comes to football,” Natasha Bruce said. When it came to race, the old wood house in Vancouver, Wash. was…

  • DNA tests show fallacy of Jim Crow

    DNA tests show fallacy of Jim Crow The Albuquerque Journal 2014-03-21 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University I am filming guest interviews for Season 2 of the genealogy series “Finding Your Roots,” airing on PBS this September. One of…

  • Mixed race and mixed reactions

    Mixed race and mixed reactions Columbia Daily Spectator 2016-10-17 Laura Salgado “But, like, what are you?” It’s a question I’m asked pretty often, both inside and outside of Morningside Heights. You’d think that after almost two decades on this planet I’d finally be able to answer it easily, but you’d be wrong. This seemingly innocent…

  • Yom Kippur Haftorah: Black Lives Matter

    Yom Kippur Haftorah: Black Lives Matter Medium 2016-10-12 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein The opening chapter of a handwritten Book of Esther. source: Wikipedia You shall love people — including Black people — with all your heart I shared this with my synagogue during Yom Kippur 5777 Shacharit services. To grow up Black in America is to know that your humanity is always in…

  • Jews Of Color Press For Acceptance

    This the first of a two part feature on the changing face of the Jewish Community. Read part two here.

  • Black, Jewish And Avoiding The Synagogue On Yom Kippur

    Last time I worshipped in a synagogue was Sept. 5, 2014. And I won’t be going today. That might surprise my friends, who put up with my bragging ad nauseam about how Jewish I am.