Setting it Straight: Race and Racism, Minority Groups
Reaching back in time to discover and shine a light on events and peoples whose roles in shaping history may be unknown, misunderstood, or misrepresented.
September 4th, 2013
Written by P. Solomon Banda in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
A chapter of the NAACP and the KKK made history when they agreed to meet to discuss literature distribution and hate crimes that had been taking place.
Saturday's meeting between Jimmy Simmons, president of the Casper NAACP, and John Abarr, a KKK organizer from Great Falls, Mont., took place at a hotel in Casper, Wyo., under tight security, the Casper Star-Tribune reported. The Southern Poverty...
August 31st, 2013
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Citizens of a small North Dakota farming community is trying to stop a white supremacist from building an enclave for Neo-Nazi and Aryan activities.
In a tree-fringed grassy lot with a lone picnic bench in the tiny North Dakota farming town of Leith, Craig Cobb sees the perfect venue for a white power music festival. Across a gravel intersection between two abandoned buildings, he envisions a...
August 23rd, 2013
Written by Russell Roberts in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
Phillis Wheatley was more than just an African-American slave who also had a gift for poetry. She was a symbol of the intelligence and dignity of blacks when it was popularly thought that they could never be the intellectual equal of whites.
She was likely born in Senegal about 1753. At the age of eight, her life was forever changed when she was kidnapped from her family by slave-traders and...
August 15th, 2013
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On Thursday, nonprofit legal advocacy group filed a federal civil rights complaint against the state of New Mexico, saying that their new online system for unemployment claimsdiscriminates against workers who don't speak English, the elderly, the disabled, and others without computer skills.
Jobless workers seeking unemployment benefits file online applications only in English under a computer...
August 15th, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
A collection of black history books, tapes, film strips and other educational materials belonging to a Michigan school district were found strewn in garbage dumpsters outside the school's library.
The revelation left parents, educators and even students angered over the school board's apparent insensitivity. They are vowing to hold school officials more accountable about the way they inter-...
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