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  • Mayor Bill De Blasio Speaks On Eric Garner, NYPD, And More On Ebro In The Morning [AUDIO]

    Mayor Bill De Blasio Speaks On Eric Garner, NYPD, And More On Ebro In The Morning [AUDIO] HOT 97, WQHT 97.1 FM New York, New York 2014-12-04 Ebro Darden, Co-Host Peter Rosenberg, Co-Host Laura Stylez, Co-Host It’s an emotional time in NYC and across the nation after a grand jury decided to not indict NYPD…

  • On White Supremacy and Why Body Cameras Are Not Enough

    On White Supremacy and Why Body Cameras Are Not Enough One Drop of Love 2014-12-03 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni I am so hopeful about the young people making their voices heard and committing their time and efforts to making real change around racism and police brutality (if you’re on Twitter, search #BlackLivesMatter to get to know…

  • In discussing Garner, de Blasio invokes Dante

    In discussing Garner, de Blasio invokes Dante Capital New York New York, New York 2014-12-03 Sally Goldenberg, City Hall/Politics Reporter Mayor Bill de Blasio often invoked his bi-racial teenage son, Dante, during an emotional speech on Staten Island Wednesday night, hours after a grand jury there declined to indict an NYPD officer in the death…

  • Bill De Blasio Responds To Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision

    Bill De Blasio Responds To Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision The Huffington Post 2014-12-03 Sam Levine, Associate Politics Editor New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said Wednesday that a grand jury’s decision not to indict a police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner was a decision “that many in our city…

  • Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade by Randy J. Sparks, and: Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It by James Ciment (review)

    Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade by Randy J. Sparks, and: Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It by James Ciment (review) Journal of the Early Republic Volume 34, Number 4, Winter 2014 pages 686-690 DOI: 10.1353/jer.2014.0068 Andrew N. Wegmann…

  • A Look at Looking Different

    A Look at Looking Different The New York Times 2014-12-02 Felicia R. Lee ‘Crossing Borders,’ at the Brooklyn Historical Society Alexander David grew up with a Chinese mother and a white Jewish father in the liberal Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. He attended the predominantly Asian elite Stuyvesant High School. He was comfortable in his…

  • The Major Demographic Shift That’s Upending How We Think About Race

    The Major Demographic Shift That’s Upending How We Think About Race The New Republic 2014-11-28 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow Metropolitan Policy Program Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Reprinted with permission from Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America by William H. Frey (Brookings Press, 2014). The usual way that race labels are applied…

  • Being a White Latina: A Reflection on Racial And Ethnic Identities

    Being a White Latina: A Reflection on Racial And Ethnic Identities The Huffington Post Latino Voices 2014-12-01 Nicholle Lamartina Palacios, Writer, activist, and community organizer We live in a country where race is a dichotomy and people are literally separated into categories of black and white — but human identities are not that simple. When…

  • In Japan’s Okinawa, saving indigenous languages is about more than words

    In Japan’s Okinawa, saving indigenous languages is about more than words The Washington Post 2014-11-29 Anna Fifield, Tokyo Bureau Chief NISHIHARA, Japan — Rising in turn at their wooden desks, the students giggled, squirmed or shuffled as they introduced themselves, some practically in a whisper. “Waa naamee ya — yaibiin . . . (My name is . . . ).” One…