Census: Fewer black children in biggest US cities Associated Press | June 30, 2011 NEW YORK –A catastrophic flood emptied New Orleans of much of its black youth. Powerful social forces may be doing a similar thing to places like Harlem and Chicago’s South Side.Over the past decade, the inner-city neighborhoods that have served for [...]
Bay Area transit agency agrees to pay $1.3 million to mother of man fatally shot by officer Associated Press | June 28, 2011 OAKLAND, Calif. — A San Francisco Bay area transit agency Tuesday agreed to pay $1.3 million to the mother of a 22-year-old unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a white [...]
Film to launch new project on Boston busing riots Russell Conteras, Associated Press (via The Grio) | June 27, 2011 BOSTON (AP) — A documentary that’s to be unveiled this week is the start of a project that aims to show that the busing riots that roiled Boston in the 1970s and stained the city’s reputation [...]
Youth Say Race Still Matters—So What Are They Doing About It? Juell Stewart, Colorlines | June 28, 2011 Earlier this month, our publisher released a report, “Don’t Call Them Post-Racial,” which surveyed attitudes about race in key systems in U.S. society among young adults 18-25. Dom Apollon’s research team conducted focus groups with dozens of [...]
Stanford: Menthol cigarette marketing is ‘predatory,’ aimed at black kids Steven E.F. Brown, San Francisco Business Times | June 24, 2011 A Stanford School of Medicine study says tobacco companies cut prices of menthol cigarettes and boosted advertisements for them near California high schools with lots of black students. The report calls the marketing “predatory.” [...]
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Labels Aren’t Romantic and Never Have Been
Too many make the mistake of directing energy toward formality or “making official” their relationships. As if listing dating-experience on a resume has gotten anyone a job, the misinformed forget that everything exists, that, in particular, love is more than words floating around facebook and gossip. Some folks walk away from a reality with bitterness [...]
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