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Thanks Kimberly! “Now if only more students, whites specifically, would rise up to condemn racial indifference and insensitivity. There is strength in numbers. Slave auctions, ghetto parties and sexual stereotypes have done enough damage on campuses.”
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“A mascot controversy is raging at New Hampshire’s Dartmouth College. It began when athletic director Josie Harper apologized for inviting the University of North Dakota’s “Fighting Sioux” for a hockey tournament…conservatives on and off campus cried fo
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Thanks Rob! “I can’t watch your show anymore. Believe me, I’ve tried. But ever since Michael Richards was caught on videotape using a stand-up comedy stage as a race-bashing soapbox, I can’t help but associate his character, Kramer, with racism…”
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Thanks Rob! “The Rev. Justinian B. Rweyemamu, who is from Tanzania, says he was unfairly passed over for a promotion at St. Bernard Church in Vernon because of his race. Rweyemamu said that after dining with friends he returned to the rectory to find the
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Thanks Kimberly! “close to 50,000 legal Africans arrive annually in the United States…These immigrants are multilingual, highly educated and of middle to upper income. But, their relationship with blacks born in America is complex.”
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Thanks Meg! “Once touted as the cure to racism, intolerance and assumptions about Anglo-Saxon cultural supremacy, multiculturalism is now cited as the cause of intolerance and racism…”
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“The first — and best — segment is set in China and features Liu as Jin Ping, a blood collector who unknowingly transmits HIV to an entire village. It’s a story close to the actor’s heart; through her work as an ambassador for UNICEF, she has seen the e
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“The actor’s résumé features a number of credits playing what some film critics have rather offensively referred to as the “noble savage”: his breakthrough performance as enslaved Cinque in Amistad; the warrior Juba in Gladiator…”
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