by MCDC | Jun 7, 2016 | 2016 General Election, News, Racism
A ‘textbook definition of a racist comment’
by MCDC | May 21, 2016 | Action Alerts, History, News, Racism
“Almost all of the civil rights cold cases that have been resolved in the past 40 years owe that resolution to the efforts of reporters, investigative journalists and local prosecutors.” View at...
by MCDC | May 8, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Discrimination, Equal Rights, Racism
Google just announced that its YouTube division will be the official livestream provider of the Donald Trump-led Republican convention, despite massive pressure from activists demanding the company stand up for its alleged values of diversity and inclusion in the face...
by MCDC | May 3, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Discrimination, History, News, Racism, Virginia
https://youtu.be/12QglUuwYNc Started during Reconstruction at the end of the Civil War, the Klan quickly mobilized as a vigilante group to intimidate Southern blacks – and any whites who would help them – and to prevent them from enjoying basic civil...
by MCDC | Apr 5, 2016 | Discrimination, Issues, Racism
“You can’t be racist and be a Christian! You all have gotta choose”: Ben Harper opens up about activism, racism and how police brutality “threatens democracy in a very specific...
by MCDC | Mar 31, 2016 | Discrimination, Equal Rights, Income Inequality, Opinion, Racism
Democratic lawmakers drafted civil-rights legislation that would challenge Jim Crow laws in the South while leaving de facto segregation in the North intact. When NBC News asked the civil-rights organizer Bayard Rustin why many African American communities rioted the...