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Meredith Clark was scrolling through her Twitter feed recently when she came across a tweet that made her think back to her childhood in Lexington, Kentucky, and smile.The tweet linked to a video of an African-American woman waving her hands through a running faucet with the caption, “This makes the water heat up faster.”In that instant, Clark, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, felt connected to a group of African-American Twitter users – none of whom she knew personally – who were in the midst of a discussion about the video. “I had seen my mother…

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When Janae Green signed up for what she thought would be a life-changing trip to Ghana last December, she had no reason to doubt the experience would be anything less than extraordinary. “The website was splashy,” Green recalled. “I saw the testimonials, and people had positive experiences with this company.” Green was drawn to Adventure in Black, a Maryland-based travel company promising immersive cultural experiences for Black travelers. For $3,500, the trip to Ghana was supposed to include accommodations, meals, activities, and a ticket to AfroFuture Fest. The company’s promotional materials promised an experience “rich in culture” with “great vibes.”…

Three black men brandishing rifles escorted a Michigan lawmaker to the State Capitol in Lansing on Wednesday, just days after hundreds of angry and armed white protesters stormed the building to protest the ongoing coronavirus lockdown. Rep. Sarah Anthony told City Pulse that she didn’t ask for help, but was glad to have extra protection so she could attend an appropriations committee meeting without fear of being threatened.  “We were all just appalled by the lack of support and lack of security that I had, that other legislators had, and the fact that a lot of the demonstrators last week…

We at the ACLU are often criticized for our unyielding defense of free speech rights. Even our closest allies complain when we defend the free speech rights of Klansmen and assorted other racists, misogynists, online haters, fake news creators, and other toxic speakers. In particular, we hear that such defenses of free speech rights serve not to protect the weak but to protect the powerful in their attacks on the vulnerable. Recently I’ve been re-reading Taylor Branch’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Parting the Waters: America in the King Years,” a history of the civil rights movement with a focus on the…

Tosh Ernest Credit: Submitted photo Sponsored Content from JP Morgan Chase Credit: . A conversation with Tosh Ernest, head of Wealth, Advancing Black Pathways at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Q: Last year, between February and April alone, the U.S. lost 440,000 Black-owned businesses. What made these firms so vulnerable?A: The unfortunate reality is that far too many Black-owned businesses entered this crisis under-capitalized and under-resourced to begin with. Through our own research, we know that businesses in predominantly Black and Latinx communities have significantly lower cash liquidity than businesses in predominantly White communities. In fact, roughly six months before the…

Protests in Montana and nationwide over the death of George Floyd (and the larger issue of systemic racism in this country) should give us all pause – and reason to look back at this country’s and this state’s history in that regard.Questions being asked today have been asked many times before.Jesse L. Brooks, a Great Falls High School senior, posed some of these questions in the school newspaper, the Round Up, under the headline “Race Problem In The West,” on May 27, 1910.Wrote Brooks: “Education is what is making and is going to make us a great people (and) higher…

For most of American history, Black children rarely saw themselves in children’s literature, and even when they did, the depictions usually were condescending, paternalistic or outright racist. Amanda Gailey, associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, traces her interest in this subject to her time at Washington University in St. Louis, where a colleague approached her with the idea of creating a digital collection of children’s literature that would address how race was communicated to children. “I found this very intriguing,” Gailey said. Amanda Gailey Gailey has studied the period that began roughly during post-Reconstruction to World War II. Copyright issues…

Editor’s Note: Nevada 150 is a yearlong series highlighting the people, places and things that make up the history of the state. When it comes to racial equality, much of Nevada’s 150 years as a state has a shameful record. And Las Vegas was no stranger to discrimination. “As a rule of thumb, if an African-American went into a casino, they were escorted out,” said Michael Green, a College of Southern Nevada history professor. “It just depended on the casino and the operator on how you were escorted out. In that period, African-Americans knew the code (the casinos) ran by.…