Tag Archives: African American

On MLK Day, a historian’s reminder that many generations of leaders contributed to the civil rights movement’s accomplishments.

The story of the shooting death of an unarmed African American man, the ensuing protests, the police behavior toward protestors, the acquittal of the accused police officer: all of this provided foreign commentators rich fodder for stories about American hypocrisy. If we can’t effectively solve a problem that wasn’t even officially acknowledged until 50 years ago then why on earth should any other country bother to listen to “experts” from the State Department and their bromides?

Until the White House acts, the door remains open for advocates to make a targeted argument about the universal value of federal actions to protect immigrant families from the threat of deportation. What’s more, the president’s executive action, when it occurs, will bring fiscal benefits and won’t harm American workers.

A hashtag campaign confronts the racial biases in the images we see and challenges the opinions we embrace of young, black Americans. This is social media at its best, offering a real-time counter-narrative to the media’s typically negative and stereotypical imagery of young black people as something to be feared.