YWCA Central Carolinas is the community’s leading nonprofit agency for empowering women, strengthening youth and familes and working toward racial justice. Join the YWCA from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on April 27 for Stand Against Racism at Polk Park.

Should I be surprised that a man whose name is as synonymous with racism as the sky is blue wants to defuse frank conversations about…

There are few people on this earth that I love more than Abena Agyeman-Fisher, the Senior Editor at NewsOne.  A consummate professional and arguably the…

On Thursday morning, John Hood, president of the ultra-conservative North Carolina think tank the John Locke Foundation, sent out an apology via his Facebook page for…

Since there is prejudice toward Blacks, is it  that hard to believe that this bias extends to the canine world too? According to proponents of…

Richard Cebull, chief judge for the U.S. District of Montana, took the nation aback this week by forwarding a set of shared remarks about President…

School officials in Slidell, La., don’t have much to say about “malicious drawings” of President Barack Obama from a 7th grade class , including one of him with a bullet hole in his head, but they should. SEE ALSO: Black High School Basketball Players Mocked With Banana Suits, Monkey Chats According to the news reports: […]

This whole post depends on a link so I’m going to post the link naked. If it does not appear in the trademark blue of a link that you can click your cursor on as transport, copy the link and paste it in your browser. You MUST see this Youtube. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vAfXNzXueE&NR=1 Now, […]

Most discussions on race focus on conflicts between whites and generalized communities of color. A new study by “The Sentencing Project” expands our awareness of the impact of racial prejudices to include differences in how African-Americans of different skin tones are treated. In their study, “The Impact of Light Skin on Prison Time for Black […]

In one of her three great books—I can’t remember which because I read her complete works back-to-back-to-back—Gayl Jones has a mock dialogue which I’ll paraphrase like so: White Person: Why aren’t there more great Black scientists? Black Person: All our best minds are tackling the “race problem”. I was reminded of this again yesterday after […]

From the Washington Post: By Martin Luther King III Forty-seven years ago this weekend, on a sweltering August day often remembered simply as the March on Washington, my father delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial. A memorial to him is being erected at the Tidal Basin, not far from where […]

A complaint filed last week with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination alleges that a foreclosure notice placed in the New Bedford Standard-Times by a Newton law firm contained racist language.