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'Nothing but a Northern Lynching': The Assassination of Fred Hampton

G. Flint Taylor | Posted 02.04.2013 | Chicago
G. Flint Taylor

While we will never know what heights Fred Hampton would have reached as a leader had he lived, we do know that the spirit of Fred Hampton continues to live on.

Voice To Voice: Laverne Cox And M. Lamar On Identity, Celebrating The Black Penis And More

Posted 02.08.2012 | Gay Voices

Last month we kicked off our Voice To Voice conversation series with a collection of interviews between LGBT authors discussing queer topics and issue...

Until We Have Faces: Stories of Violent Homophobia In Paradise

Ryan J. Bell | Posted 03.18.2012 | Impact
Ryan J. Bell

To be openly gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender in Jamaica is to take your life in your hands. I had no idea about this reality until I spoke to Leslie Foster, director of a documentary about violent homophobia in Jamaica.

Protester Arrest At Los Angeles Art Walk

Posted 01.16.2012 | Arts

Los Angeles' bi-weekly art walk recently got a taste of the confrontations between Occupy protesters and the LAPD. The video above begins in the m...

As Herman Cain Fights Sex Harassment Story, This Black Man Pleads: Enough With the Lynching Talk!

Eric Deggans | Posted 01.03.2012 | Black Voices
Eric Deggans

Coming from someone who has regularly accused liberals of alleging racism to silence critics of Barack Obama, it was a particularly cheeky turn of phrase. But, as always, Ann Coulter is willing to go there.

Killing to Govern

Jared Gardner | Posted 11.30.2011 | New York
Jared Gardner

We know the statistics because they are so very proud of them: Rick Perry, governor of Texas, has overseen more than 230 executions, the most of any g...

The 'Lynching' Of Troy Davis And White Christianity

Alexander Mikulich, Ph.D. | Posted 11.26.2011 | Religion
Alexander Mikulich, Ph.D.

It is time to contend with our complicity in the enduring legacy of lynching in the contemporary practice of the death penalty. It contradicts our claims of being Christian and democratic.

Friday Talking Points -- Labor Daze

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.02.2011 | Politics
Chris Weigant

It surpasses all irony and actually enters into the realm of bitter humor that we're about to celebrate Labor Day when the unemployment rate remains at the sky-high level of 9.1 percent.

When Democratic Rhetoric Goes Too Far

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.31.2011 | Politics
Chris Weigant

The history of lynching should not be abused and belittled by politicians in hyperbolic fashion to make a much smaller point. Even if, or perhaps especially if, the politician in question is black.

Death in Mississippi: Lynching or Suicide?

Dexter Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Dexter Rogers

Slice the pie as you choose but an African-American hanging from a tree in Mississippi is a big deal. So, I humbly ask again, where is the media coverage?

Black History Meditation: Remembering The Presence Of Our Ancestors

Albert Raboteau | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Albert Raboteau

Our nation, constituted by diverse ethnic, racial, and religious groups achieves a unified identity, not only through a set of shared principles articulated in civic institutions, but through memory.

Missouri Corrects Record On 1923 College-Town Lynching

AP | ALAN SCHER ZAGIER | Posted 05.25.2011 | College

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Hundreds looked on as an angry mob dragged a black University of Missouri janitor from his jail cell in April 1923, publicly lyn...

Notes From an Israeli Newsroom: The Day My Leftism Changed

Ami Kaufman | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Ami Kaufman

Ten years ago today my leftism changed. I remember the images shown over and over again on television. The body being thrown out the window, and then being stomped on. And of course the bloody hands.

LeBron James Suggests 'Race' Played a Role in His Negative Press: Is He Right?

Dexter Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Dexter Rogers

Racism is a disease that surely needs to be properly diagnosed yet so many are afraid to engage in pursuing a collective cure.

Recovering from Empathy

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert Koehler

What I thought of, straight off, as I watched that 17-minute WikiLeaks video of Iraqis - including a Reuters photographer and his driver - being stra...

No Noose is Good Noose

Bob Franken | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Bob Franken

It happened decades ago but it remains one of my favorite moments on television ever. The guests on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson were the yo...

Why Didn't Rand Paul Fire His Racially Suspect Mouthpiece?

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The news hit last December that there was a racially inflammatory picture of the lynching of a black man next to a smiling cherubic picture of three y...

Murdoch and Fox Portray Black Men as Terrorists on 24

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Ronald B. Robinson

The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.

Lynching Reference on Cover of New Orleans Music Magazine Brings Anger and Outrage

Jordan Flaherty | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jordan Flaherty

OffBeat Magazine is a monthly print publication based in New Orleans. They claim a circulation of 40,000, mostly through free distribution in bars, st...

Breakfast in Ocilla

Michael Jones | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Michael Jones

I was in my father's hometown of Ocilla over the weekend. A small town in Georgia, the site of a horrendous lynching in the thirties, and, when I was a child, a totally segregated society.

I Live In The Land Of You, Me And We

Matthew Modine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Matthew Modine

The first three words of the Constitution say, "We the People." "We" is a lovely word; it is inclusive. Life forms and nature are a delicate dance of symbiotic relationships. Some people understand that there is only one world and we are all in this together.

Governor Rick Perry and His Texas Death Machine Are In Big Trouble

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
David A. Love

Cameron Todd Willingham is now a free man, but unfortunately it took death to release him from the confines of his prison bars.

Whether Gates or Health Care, Race Matters

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Abby L. Ferber

Discussions of race are not merely a distraction from more important matters; they are essential to understanding political mobilization around many of the significant policy issues facing us today.

Two by Earth, Three by Fire: Detroit Revisited

Lester Sloan | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Lester Sloan

Ironically, it is still Detroit that gives the suburbs a sense of place and America a reason to hope.

Do McCain and Palin Want Race Riots?

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jeff Dorchen

I expect this kind of garbage from Limbaugh and Savage and Malkin. It's their job to spew evil. But the responsibilities of a public servant are to keep his activities within bounds that don't threaten the civil safety.