May 2013
May 6th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
One teacher won’t be getting a “Happy Teacher’s Day” card this year: In April, a 61-year-old Texas educator denied claims she ever fondled a 7-year-old black student because, stating in her own defense, she “doesn’t like black students because she was prejudiced.”
For the rest of the nation’s educators, the entire week of May 6-12 is set aside each year – including National Teacher Day, May 7 -...
May 6th, 2013
Written by Rita Rizzo in National Collegiate Dialogue with 19 Comments
Think about your social media friends and followers. Are most of them of your same race and ethnicity or are your online buddies a multicultural mix? Long touted as a colorblind way to bring people around the globe together, a recent study on social media shows that segregation may exist.
A late 2012 Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project shows that different racial and ethnic...
May 6th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in National Collegiate Dialogue with 23 Comments
The current May 2013 issue of Vogue Netherlands magazine is taking some heat for attempting to pay homage to the contributions of black cultural icons by using white models in black face paint.
So is there a reason that Vogue Magazine can't find black models?
In their “Heritage Heroes” layout, the editors choose to dress-up white, blond Dutch model Querelle Jansen in black face paint and a black...
May 5th, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
The tiny, nondescript house on Goss Circle where some of the first slaves of Boulder actually lived stands as a symbol of monumental proportions.
This home, literally and figuratively, as the folksy culture of architecture lured so many of them west from the South in search of new opportunity.
In that regard, historians and preservationist alike fiercely contend the dilapidated, time-worn house...
May 4th, 2013
Written by Frank Jordans -... in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
Revelations that a string of unsolved killings may have been a cold-blooded neo-Nazi campaign against ethnic Turks have shaken the nation, forcing Germans to confront painful truths about racism and the broader treatment of immigrants in society.
Most of the victims were immigrants and their deaths at first failed to make headlines. Police were quick to blame the killings on foreign gangs with...