Tag Archives: Race and Ethnicity

The New York Times 10:00 am on June 22, 2021
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Policing and the New York Mayoral Race

As voters head to the polls, we talk to two Democrats about an election that is testing the city’s values.

#audio-neutral-informative, #black-lives-matter-movement, #black-people, #crime-and-criminals, #elections-mayors, #hate-crimes, #mayors, #new-york-city, #police-department-nyc, #police-reform, #race-and-ethnicity

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The New York Times 11:28 pm on June 21, 2021
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Rancor Between Adams and Yang Marks End of Bruising Mayoral Campaign

On the eve of Tuesday’s primary, the top candidates for mayor of New York City issued their sharpest criticism of the campaign.

#adams-eric-l, #democratic-party, #elections-mayors, #garcia-kathryn, #new-york-city, #politics-and-government, #primaries-and-caucuses, #race-and-ethnicity, #ranked-choice-voting, #wiley-maya, #yang-andrew-1975

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The New York Times 11:30 pm on June 20, 2021
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Adams Clashes With Rivals on Last Weekend of Mayoral Campaign

Eric Adams and Andrew Yang tussled on questions of race in a frenetic day of campaigning, two days before the June 22 primary.

#adams-eric-l, #democratic-party, #elections-mayors, #garcia-kathryn, #new-york-city, #primaries-and-caucuses, #race-and-ethnicity, #ranked-choice-voting, #wiley-maya, #yang-andrew-1975

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The New York Times 7:50 pm on June 19, 2021
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Yang and Garcia Form Late Alliance in Mayor’s Race, Drawing Adams’s Ire

Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia campaigned together on Saturday in a show of unity that their top rival, Eric Adams, viewed as racially driven politics.

#adams-eric-l, #elections-mayors, #endorsements, #garcia-kathryn, #new-york-city, #primaries-and-caucuses, #race-and-ethnicity, #voting-and-voters, #wiley-maya, #yang-andrew-1975

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The New York Times 7:00 am on June 19, 2021
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‘Keep an Eye on This Guy’: Inside Eric Adams’s Complicated Police Career

Mr. Adams’s police credentials have helped him rise to the top of this year’s mayoral field. But his relationship with the department is complex.

#100-blacks-in-law-enforcement-who-care, #adams-eric-l, #brooklyn-nyc, #content-type-personal-profile, #elections-mayors, #new-york-city, #police, #police-brutality-misconduct-and-shootings, #police-department-nyc, #race-and-ethnicity

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The New York Times 8:29 pm on June 18, 2021
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Will Christian America Withstand the Pull of QAnon?

The Southern Baptist Convention appeared more concerned with combating critical race theory than conspiracy theories. 

#baptist-churches, #christians-and-christianity, #discrimination, #greear-j-d, #haslam-bill, #litton-ed-pastor, #ministers-protestant, #presidential-election-of-2020, #qanon, #race-and-ethnicity, #right-wing-extremism-and-alt-right, #southern-baptist-convention, #stone-mike-pastor

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The New York Times 7:00 pm on June 18, 2021
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Juneteenth Reminds Us Just How Far We Have to Go

Abolishing slavery was only one step on a winding journey.

#black-people, #civil-war-us-1861-65, #discrimination, #federal-state-relations-us, #juneteenth, #law-and-legislation, #lincoln-abraham, #race-and-ethnicity, #slavery-historical, #thirteenth-amendment-us-constitution, #united-states

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The New York Times 5:25 pm on June 17, 2021
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Scholarly Groups Condemn Laws Limiting Teaching on Race

More than 20 states have introduced legislation restricting lessons on racism and other so-called “divisive concepts.”

#colleges-and-universities, #critical-race-theory, #discrimination, #education-k-12, #freedom-of-speech-and-expression, #history-academic-subject, #law-and-legislation, #pen-american-center, #race-and-ethnicity, #states-us, #united-states, #united-states-politics-and-government

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The New York Times 10:00 am on June 17, 2021
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The Transformation of Ralph Northam

How the Virginia governor who was embroiled in a blackface scandal became the most racially progressive leader in the state’s history.

#black-people, #democratic-party, #discrimination, #governors-us, #northam-ralph-s, #race-and-ethnicity, #virginia

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The New York Times 9:00 am on June 17, 2021
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Justice Sotomayor, the Supreme Court’s Truth Teller

In her opinions, Justice Sotomayor explains how Supreme Court cases are part of a larger unfolding story of where the country finds itself. 

#black-people, #breyer-stephen-g, #capital-punishment, #cocaine-and-crack-cocaine, #congressional-black-caucus, #crime-and-criminals, #criminal-justice, #drug-abuse-and-traffic, #ginsburg-ruth-bader, #kagan-elena, #mandatory-sentencing, #national-assn-for-the-advancement-of-colored-people, #race-and-ethnicity, #sotomayor-sonia, #supreme-court-us, #thomas-clarence

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The New York Times 1:15 am on June 17, 2021
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Juneteenth Poll: Most Americans Know Little or Nothing About Holiday

Academics believe that increases in the number of Americans familiar with the holiday, which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S., may be a result of last summer’s protests against racism.

#black-people, #gallup-poll, #george-floyd-protests-2020, #holidays-and-special-occasions, #juneteenth, #polls-and-public-opinion, #race-and-ethnicity, #slavery-historical

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The New York Times 12:17 am on June 17, 2021
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The World’s Dictators Exploit America’s Racism

They are not completely wrong.

#black-lives-matter-movement, #black-people, #politics-and-government, #putin-vladimir-v, #race-and-ethnicity, #russia, #united-states, #united-states-politics-and-government

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The New York Times 12:57 am on June 16, 2021
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Southern Baptist Convention Elects Ed Litton as New President

Ed Litton, a moderate pastor from Alabama, won a high-stakes presidential election with the potential to reshape the future of the country’s largest Protestant denomination.

#baptist-churches, #greear-j-d, #ministers-protestant, #nashville-tenn, #race-and-ethnicity, #southern-baptist-convention

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The New York Times 11:30 pm on June 15, 2021
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Southern Baptist Convention Will Hold Runoff for New President

The high-stakes presidential election has the potential to reshape the future of the country’s largest Protestant denomination.

#baptist-churches, #greear-j-d, #ministers-protestant, #nashville-tenn, #race-and-ethnicity, #southern-baptist-convention

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The New York Times 7:31 pm on June 15, 2021
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Battle for Black Voters in N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race Centers on Policing

As New York’s Democratic primary nears, Black voters appear torn between Eric Adams and Maya Wiley and their divergent views on balancing public safety and civil rights.

#adams-eric-l, #black-people, #democratic-party, #elections-mayors, #mcguire-raymond-j, #morales-dianne, #new-york-city, #police-reform, #primaries-and-caucuses, #race-and-ethnicity, #voting-and-voters, #wiley-maya

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The New York Times 6:10 pm on June 15, 2021
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New Report Paints Bleak Picture of Diversity in the Music Industry

The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative examined 4,060 executives at six types of companies, and found 19.8 percent were from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.

#annenberg-inclusion-initiative, #black-people, #labor-and-jobs, #minorities, #music, #race-and-ethnicity, #research, #universal-music-group, #university-of-southern-california, #women-and-girls

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The New York Times 4:54 pm on June 15, 2021
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On ‘Dave,’ Lil Dicky Faces the Music

Season 2 of the hip-hop comedy bolsters its raunchy humor with a sharp take on white privilege in a Black art form.

#black-people, #burd-david-lil-dicky-1988, #dave-tv-program, #fxx-tv-network, #gata-rapper, #ko-christine-actor, #race-and-ethnicity, #rap-and-hip-hop, #television, #whites

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The New York Times 4:44 pm on June 15, 2021
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The PBS Chef Martin Yan Teaches Chinese Cooking to a New Audience

The man who used television to help many North Americans start cooking Chinese food at home is as cheery as ever, but aware of some harsher truths.

#chefs, #chinese-food-cuisine, #chinese-americans, #content-type-personal-profile, #cooking-and-cookbooks, #public-broadcasting-service, #race-and-ethnicity, #san-francisco-bay-area-calif, #television, #web-original-programming, #yan-martin-1948

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The New York Times 7:21 pm on June 14, 2021
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Judges Halt Race and Gender Priority for Restaurant Relief Grants

Approvals for thousands of Restaurant Revitalization Fund applicants were rescinded after court orders struck down a policy that favored historically underserved groups.

#coronavirus-2019-ncov, #minorities, #oconnor-reed, #race-and-ethnicity, #restaurants, #small-business, #small-business-administration, #stimulus-economic, #suits-and-litigation-civil, #tennessee, #texas

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The New York Times 2:42 pm on June 14, 2021
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How the Virus Unraveled Hispanic American Families

Deaths in Santa Clara County, Calif., highlight a terrible disparity of the pandemic: Covid-19 killed many Hispanic Americans at younger ages.

#age-chronological, #california, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #deaths-fatalities, #hispanic-americans, #income-inequality, #race-and-ethnicity, #san-jose-calif, #santa-clara-county-calif, #your-feed-science

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The New York Times 10:18 am on June 14, 2021
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Black Virginians Took Ralph Northam Back. Neither Has Forgotten.

Virginia’s governor survived a blackface scandal with the help of Black Democrats, who saw a chance for policy concessions. Both got more from the relationship than they could have imagined.

#black-people, #democratic-party, #discrimination, #northam-ralph-s, #race-and-ethnicity, #united-states-politics-and-government, #virginia, #whites

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The New York Times 10:09 am on June 14, 2021
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Ralph Northam Reflects on His Journey Back From the Edge

When a racist picture was discovered on his yearbook page, the governor of Virginia refused to resign. Now he’s leaving office with a widely praised progressive record on racial justice.

#content-type-personal-profile, #governors-us, #northam-ralph-s, #race-and-ethnicity, #united-states-politics-and-government, #virginia

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The New York Times 11:01 pm on June 13, 2021
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Demonizing Critical Race Theory

These initiatives that Republicans whipped up to rail against are usually not a problem, but rather a wandering outrage in search of a problem.

#race-and-ethnicity, #republican-party, #shariah-islamic-law, #states-us, #united-states-politics-and-government, #whites

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The New York Times 10:21 pm on June 13, 2021
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Thousands Rally in Brooklyn to Protest ‘State of Emergency’ for Trans Youth

The Brooklyn Liberation march took place amid a wave of legislation targeting transgender children and violence that disproportionately affects Black trans women. “We are here to claim space,” one speaker said.

#black-lives-matter-movement, #black-people, #discrimination, #george-floyd-protests-2020, #race-and-ethnicity, #transgender-and-transsexuals

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The New York Times 9:27 pm on June 12, 2021
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Mudcat Grant, American League’s First Black 20-Game Winner, Dies at 85

After 14 major league seasons, he wrote a book about Black pitchers and sang in nightclubs. “I made way more money in music than I did in baseball,” he said.

#american-league, #baseball, #black-people, #cleveland-indians, #deaths-obituaries, #grant-mudcat-1935-2021, #minnesota-twins, #race-and-ethnicity

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The New York Times 9:00 am on June 12, 2021
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‘Take the Ship’: Conservatives Aim to Commandeer Southern Baptists

The insurgents, some adopting a pirate motif, believe that the denomination has drifted too far to the left on issues of race, gender and the strict authority of the Bible.

#baptist-churches, #conservatism-us-politics, #evangelical-movement, #greear-j-d, #nashville-tenn, #race-and-ethnicity, #southern-baptist-convention

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The New York Times 10:26 pm on June 11, 2021
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Board Approves Removal of ‘Negro’ From 16 Place Names in Texas

An Interior Department committee’s decision to allow the renaming of the sites comes nearly 30 years after Texas lawmakers first voted to change the names.

#black-people, #discrimination, #law-and-legislation, #names-geographical, #politics-and-government, #race-and-ethnicity, #texas, #united-states-board-on-geographic-names

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The New York Times 5:52 pm on June 11, 2021
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Two Black Students Won School Honors. Then Came the Calls for a Recount.

After two white families claimed a grade calculation error, a Mississippi school added their children as co-valedictorian and co-salutatorian, reviving questions about race and equity.

#awards-decorations-and-honors, #black-people, #cleveland-miss, #education-k-12, #grading-of-students, #mississippi, #national-assn-for-the-advancement-of-colored-people, #race-and-ethnicity

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The New York Times 6:29 am on June 11, 2021
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How Jodie Turner-Smith Is Reshaping Anne Boleyn’s Story

Jodie Turner-Smith portrays the ill-fated wife of Henry VIII in a new mini-series. The show has stirred debate in Britain, which is sort of the point.

#5tv-channel-5, #actors-and-actresses, #anne-boleyn-tv-program, #black-people, #boleyn-anne, #content-type-personal-profile, #great-britain, #henry-viii-king-of-england, #race-and-ethnicity, #royal-families, #television, #turner-smith-jodie

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The New York Times 10:49 pm on June 10, 2021
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Officials Remove Tile Viewed as Offensive from Detroit Museum-Sponsored Mural

The tile, installed beneath a mural sponsored by the Detroit Institute of Arts and intended to honor police officers, contained imagery that some associate with a rebuke of racial justice.

#detroit-mich, #detroit-institute-of-arts, #murals, #museums, #police, #race-and-ethnicity, #right-wing-extremism-and-alt-right, #sterling-heights-mich, #symbols

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The New York Times 3:12 pm on June 10, 2021
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The C.D.C.’s New Leader Follows the Science. Is That Enough?

By all accounts, Dr. Rochelle Walensky is a fierce advocate and an empathetic scientist. But C.D.C. advice must be better attuned to the real world, critics say.

#appointments-and-executive-changes, #centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention, #content-type-personal-profile, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #massachusetts-general-hospital, #race-and-ethnicity, #redfield-robert-r, #walensky-rochelle, #your-feed-science

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The New York Times 9:00 am on June 10, 2021
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As Military Addresses Diversity, Republicans See Culture War Target

The Pentagon’s leadership is taking steps to promote inclusion in the military, prompting a political backlash.

#austin-lloyd-j-iii, #conservatism-us-politics, #defense-department, #draft-and-recruitment-military, #race-and-ethnicity, #republican-party, #united-states-defense-and-military-forces, #united-states-politics-and-government, #women-and-girls

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The New York Times 1:22 am on June 10, 2021
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Voter Suppression Must Be the Central Issue

People of color have been pivotal in some recent elections. Republicans are determined to stop that.

#biden-joseph-r-jr, #black-people, #presidential-election-of-2020, #race-and-ethnicity, #republican-party, #united-states-politics-and-government, #voter-registration-and-requirements, #voting-and-voters, #voting-rights-act-1965, #whites

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The New York Times 11:40 pm on June 9, 2021
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Search for Victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre Has Uncovered 27 Coffins

There are strong reasons to suspect that the mass grave was for victims of the 1921 killing, given contemporary evidence.

#archaeology-and-anthropology, #black-people, #cemeteries, #oaklawn-cemetery, #race-and-ethnicity, #tulsa-okla, #tulsa-race-riot-1921

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The New York Times 5:27 pm on June 9, 2021
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Tenement Museum Makes Room for Black History

Reopening after a tumultuous year, this Lower East Side institution is addressing the omissions and erasures in the neighborhood’s history — and its own.

#black-people, #lower-east-side-manhattan-ny, #lower-east-side-tenement-museum, #museums, #new-york-city, #obrien-lauren-researcher, #polland-annie, #race-and-ethnicity

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The New York Times 5:26 pm on June 9, 2021
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Former Students Win Racial Profiling Case Against French State

Three young men filed a suit saying they had been discriminated against during ID checks in Paris in 2017, when they were high school students. An appeals court ruled in their favor this week.

#discrimination, #france, #macron-emmanuel-1977, #paris-france, #race-and-ethnicity, #racial-profiling, #suits-and-litigation-civil

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The New York Times 6:03 pm on June 8, 2021
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For Asian Americans Wary of Attacks, Reopening Is Not an Option

Facing a wave of animosity, many Asian Americans remain afraid of public places even as the coronavirus pandemic recedes.

#asian-americans, #atlanta-spa-shootings-2021, #coronavirus-reopenings, #race-and-ethnicity

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The New York Times 10:51 am on June 8, 2021
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Trappes est-elle, un ‘territoire perdu de la République’?

À Trappes, un âpre combat oppose le maire à un enseignant qui affirme que la ville est aux mains des islamistes. Leur conflit attise le débat national sur l’identité française.

#content-type-personal-profile, #education-secondary, #france, #immigration-and-emigration, #lemaire-didier, #muslims-and-islam, #politics-and-government, #rabeh-ali, #race-and-ethnicity, #religion-state-relations, #terrorism, #trappes-france

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The New York Times 10:03 am on June 8, 2021
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The Mayor, the Teacher and a Fight over a ‘Lost Territory’ of France

A battle erupted after a high-school teacher said that Islamists had taken over the city of Trappes, a view vigorously countered by the mayor, sharpening a national debate over French identity.

#content-type-personal-profile, #education-secondary, #france, #immigration-and-emigration, #lemaire-didier, #muslims-and-islam, #politics-and-government, #rabeh-ali, #race-and-ethnicity, #religion-state-relations, #terrorism, #trappes-france

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The New York Times 11:16 pm on June 7, 2021
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The Left Needs the A.C.L.U. to Keep Defending Awful Speech

Yes, the civil liberties group is divided. What else is new?

#american-civil-liberties-union, #censorship, #civil-rights-and-liberties, #cole-david-d, #demonstrations-protests-and-riots, #foundation-for-individual-rights-in-education, #freedom-of-speech-and-expression, #liberalism-us-politics, #neo-nazi-groups, #race-and-ethnicity, #right-wing-extremism-and-alt-right, #skokie-ill

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The New York Times 9:55 pm on June 7, 2021
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This TikTok Star Is Turning the Tables on Microaggressions

Clare Brown uses the platform to share satirical videos in which white people are treated as a minority.

#race-and-ethnicity, #social-media

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The New York Times 2:41 pm on June 7, 2021
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FEMA Disaster Aid Often Widens Racial Disparities

The federal government often gives less help to Black disaster survivors than their white neighbors. That’s a challenge for President Biden, who has vowed to fight both inequality and climate change.

#black-people, #disasters-and-emergencies, #discrimination, #federal-emergency-management-agency, #finances, #global-warming, #greenhouse-gas-emissions, #hurricanes-and-tropical-storms, #income-inequality, #lake-charles-la, #race-and-ethnicity, #real-estate-and-housing-residential, #research, #whites

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The New York Times 9:00 am on June 7, 2021
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From Doomsday Preppers to Doomsday Plotters

Far-right movements have long dreamed of a moment that ends society as we’ve known it. Now, experts say, so-called accelerationist thinking is proliferating in ways that could destabilize democracy.

#albrecht-franco, #fringe-groups-and-movements, #germany, #neo-nazi-groups, #nordkreuz, #politics-and-government, #qanon, #race-and-ethnicity, #right-wing-extremism-and-alt-right, #storming-of-the-us-capitol-jan-2021, #terrorism, #united-states

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The New York Times 11:00 pm on June 6, 2021
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My Journey to Pride

The power of truth and the power of community made me whole.

#black-people, #content-type-personal-profile, #discrimination, #homosexuality-and-bisexuality, #metropolitan-opera, #race-and-ethnicity

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The New York Times 3:16 pm on June 6, 2021
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A Psychiatrist Invited to Yale Spoke of Fantasies of Shooting White People

The Yale School of Medicine said the tone and content of a lecture by Dr. Aruna Khilanani, who has a private practice in New York, were “antithetical to the values of the school.”

#colleges-and-universities, #discrimination, #dr-aruna-khilanani, #freedom-of-speech-and-expression, #psychiatry-and-psychiatrists, #race-and-ethnicity, #video-recordings-downloads-and-streaming, #weiss-bari, #whites, #yale-school-of-medicine, #yale-university

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The New York Times 12:00 pm on June 5, 2021
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The Remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest Are Being Exhumed in Memphis

The remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slave trader and leader of the Ku Klux Klan, will be moved from Memphis to a Confederate museum 200 miles away.

#black-people, #civil-war-us-1861-65, #confederate-states-of-america, #forrest-nathan-bedford, #ku-klux-klan, #memphis-tenn, #monuments-and-memorials-structures, #race-and-ethnicity, #slavery-historical, #sons-of-confederate-veterans, #tennessee

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The New York Times 9:00 am on June 5, 2021
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Symone of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ On Drag, Her Win and Self-Love

“I had to learn to love my Blackness,” said the winner of this season’s ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race.’ “I’ve learned to love my queerness. I had to learn to love myself.”

#arkansas, #charles-rupaul, #content-type-personal-profile, #los-angeles-calif, #race-and-ethnicity

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The New York Times 11:30 pm on June 4, 2021
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Black Lives Matter Has Grown More Powerful, and More Divided

Since the murder of George Floyd, the racial justice movement has received millions of dollars in donations. But some chapters have questioned how those funds are spent.

#black-lives-matter-movement, #black-people, #george-floyd-protests-2020, #police-brutality-misconduct-and-shootings, #race-and-ethnicity

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The New York Times 2:31 am on June 4, 2021
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A Veteran Tried to Credit Black Americans on Memorial Day. His Mic Got Muted.

Retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter was speaking at an American Legion service in Hudson, Ohio, on Monday when he was intentionally silenced.

#american-legion, #black-people, #civil-war-us-1861-65, #hudson-ohio, #kemter-barnard, #memorial-day, #ohio, #race-and-ethnicity, #slavery-historical

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