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For the first part of the program, Bobby Seale explodes the myth of the armed street gang promulgated by Ronald Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover. The Panthers were a group of professional, semi-professional, and college students who formed this anti-segregation, broad-spectrum civil rights movement whose legal use of arms Bobby would substitute for video cameras in 1995.
And lastly John A. Powell explores central ideas in his most recent book
Racing to Justice, which provides an outline for laying claim to our shared humanity amidst attitudes and institutions that promote and perpetuate social suffering. Although there is much work to do regarding the redemption of the American promise of equality for all,
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GUEST BLOG: Neurodiversity Celebration Week takes place in the UK on 15 to 21 March 2021, and World Autism Awareness Week is from 29 March to 4 April 2021. In this contributed blog post, Larissa Suzuki shares her personal experiences and advice as a computer scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and an autistic person. Read more about neurodivergence in tech here.
We know by now (or should if we are paying attention) that the Black American experience is not a monolith. (BlackIllustrations.com)
We know by now (or should if we are paying attention) that the Black American experience is not a monolith. Though there are some overarching themes, our individual experience varies widely and has ever since the first Africans were kidnapped and taken to America in 1619.
Four Hundred Souls, edited by Ibram X. Kendi (author of
How to Be an Antiracist) and Keisha N. Blain (author of
Set the World on Fire), presents a new way to engage Black American history. It is a community history of Black America, a story told by the people inhabiting it a for us by us endeavor, conceived out of the premise that, as Kendi puts it, solidarity is the womb of community.
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COVID case numbers are falling across the country, but recent hate crimes against Asian Americans suggest that anti-Asian bias, which spiked during the pandemic, isn’t on the wane.
On January 28, 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee was fatally attacked in San Francisco. In early February, an Asian American grandmother was assaulted and robbed in San Jose, one of several hate crimes that took place there just before Lunar New Year. In New York, an assailant slashed a Filipino man in the face with a box cutter, and someone punched two elderly Asian women in separate incidents on the New York City subway.
The
San Francisco Chronicle is not holding back on its praise of Kamala Harris inauguration as vice president, including portraying her rise to power as “counterpoint to insurrection.”
The news outlet in Harris’ home state praised Harris as the antidote to a divided nation following a turbulent presidential election:
As images of white supremacists storming the Capitol sear into Americans’ minds, there is about to be another image that provides the case for optimism about the future: the moment when Kamala Harris, first Black woman and woman of color to be inaugurated as vice president, is sworn in.
Veterans of the civil rights movement and scholars of Black American history say there is no mistaking that the nation is in a moment of distress, as it grapples with a deadly insurrection that threatened the lives of the vice president and dozens of lawmakers as well as the constitutional process for the peaceful transfer of power.