Issue Of The Week XXIV: What White Person Pissed You Off?
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Race and Politics
Did Lincoln Show The Same Compassion For Native Americans As African American Slaves?
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Abraham Lincoln and his freedom of African-Americans from the bonds of slavery looms over any other subject associated with him. Thus, we all think we know Lincoln — kind, charitable, funny, wise, and compassionate, a good and decent person who acted toward everyone else the same benevolent way.
But did he? How does Lincoln measure up when it comes to another oppressed race of the day…Native Americans?
Conversation Of The Week XXIII: Institutionalized Racism In Education: From Grade School Through College
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As we come to the close of black history month, I thought it fitting to write about the subject we are all so comfortable talking about: institutionalized racism and the disparities in educational achievement it, too often, breeds.
Institutionalized racism is so prevalent and entrenched — even invisible in many ways — in this country that it seems normal to many. Practices in the educational system are merely a microcosm of it in action.
Wharlest Jackson Sr.: His Fight For Civil Rights Ended With His Murder But His Courage Lives On
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Each year during Black History Month, the family of Wharlest Jackson, Sr. gathers at the site of his murder on a cold winter evening in 1967. On February 27, Jackson was going home after his shift ended at the Armstrong Tire and Rubber plant in Natchez, Mississippi. As he headed along Minor Street, Jackson’s truck exploded and pieces of everything including the shoes he wore covered the street and yards of the neighboring homes.
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