Month: January 2015

  • Woman rides in Rose Bowl parade almost 60 years after being snubbed because of her race The Washington Post 2015-01-01 Diana Reese Overland Park, Kansas Racism “was a fact of life,” Joan Williams says about 1958, the year she was supposed to ride on a city-sponsored float in the Rose Parade of Pasadena. The 27-year-old…

  • Joan Williams in Rose Parade after nearly 60 years, but some wonder why she wasn’t in broadcast Pasadena Star-News Pasadena, California 2015-01-01 Christina Gullickson, Reporter Joan Williams, 82, right, rides the theme banner float Inspiring Stories, along Colorado Blvd. during the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California on January 1, 2015. (Photo by Leo Jarzomb/ Pasadena…

  • Census Bureau’s Plan to Cut Marriage and Divorce Questions Has Academics Up in Arms The New York Times 2014-12-31 Justin Wolfers, Senior Fellow Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C. also: Professor of Economics and Public Policy University of Michigan If the Census Bureau proceeds with a recently released plan, then in a few years’ time,…

  • I Don’t See Race; I Only See Grayish-Brown, Vaguely Humanoid Shapes The Onion Issue 50•49, 2014-12-12 Janice Ketchum I don’t understand why everyone seems to be so angry lately. Everywhere you look, there are marches, protests, riots—and all of it over so-called racism in our great country. I just don’t get it. I really don’t.…

  • Is NYPD’s War on Mayor Bill de Blasio Partly War on His Black Family? AlterNet 2014-12-30 Terrell Jermaine Starr, Senior Editor The cops’ fight with the city’s progressive mayor smacks of white supremacy. In September 1992, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association organized thousands of New York City cops to storm City Hall to protest then-mayor David…

  • For when word spread that light-complexioned Mrs. Williams was a Negro, fellow employees in the municipal office where she works as an accountant-clerk suddenly stopped speaking to her. Mayor Jeth Miller, who crowned her at the city employees annual picnic, neither participated with her in later civic events nor rode with her in the Tournament…