Congresswoman Joyce Beatty from Ohio’s 3rd Congressional district delivers this week’s CBC Message to America addressing the racial gap that exists amongst those attempting to achieve the American dream.
While the American dream can be elusive and difficult for many to achieve, the Congressional Black Caucus is not willing to sit idly by as African-Americans lose hope in their ability to reach it.
So, how will the CBC help members of the African-American community obtain the American Dream? T
I think the chances are pretty good that the White House just days from now will announce that President Obama intends to travel to Baton Rouge to pay tribute to the slain police officers there. I could be wrong, but I can’t imagine him not going now, even though he ignored calls for a presidential visit to Baton Rouge and Falcon Heights, Minn., where Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were killed, just prior to the massacre in Dallas.
If I’m right about this, whenever the memorial service for
A lone gunman wearing all black and toting a rifle shot and killed three cops in Baton Rouge and wounded three more Sunday, authorities said.
Cops killed the shooter in a wild shootout around 8:40 a.m. local time on a main thoroughfare in the Louisiana capitol.
The gunman was identified by CBS as Gavin Eugene Long. Multiple reports linked Long to homegrown hate groups. The Wall Street Journal, citing sources, said he belonged to an antigovernment group called the New Freedom Group. MSNBC repo
Dear, President Obama:
As a black man, I have cried more times than I care to admit in the past week, particularly after hearing the audiotape of Diamond Reynolds’ live Facebook video following the killing of her fiance, Philando Castile, in Falcon Heights, Minn. My heart wept as she showed profound resilience and calm in the face of an overly aggressive police officer who appeared unbothered by the trauma he had just inflicted on her and her 4-year-old daughter.
Has your heart wept? Have y
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just a day after millions of Americans celebrated the “Fourth of You Lie,” our nation got more evidence of the lie we live when we “celebrate” freedom. On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling was killed by White police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in an encounter that was blessedly videotaped. The footage showed a man being shot, even as he was down on the ground. A day later, on July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was shot four times as he attempted to comply with a police officer’
If his intro calling them a "hate America" group wasn't enough indication, Bill O'Reilly was clearly teed off at Black Lives Matter tonight and got very confrontational with an NAACP official over the group's tactics. O'Reilly told NAACP Washington bureau director Hilary Shelton that if black people want to bring the country together, they need to distance themselves from Black Lives Matter.
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The following is a guest post co-authored by Tyler Parry and Clayton Finn. Parry is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Parry’s research examines slavery in the Atlantic world. His work has appeared in the Journal of Southern History, American Studies, and Jacobin.com. He is currently revising his manuscript Bound in Bondage: Slave Matrimony in the African Diaspora for publication. Finn is a graduate student of American Studies at Californi
There was a moment when white Americans felt the dread black Americans live with daily. It happened Dec. 14, 2012, when a shooter entered a Newtown, Conn., elementary school and fatally shot 20 children between the
Mourning Alton Sterling. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
After the disturbing deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands of law enforcement officers this week, racial bias and police brutality have once again become heated subjects in the US.
Several online commenters have noted that the safety of black Americans doesn’t seem to have improved much since Jim Crow laws were struck down in 1965. In fact, US police seem to be killing more black citizens today than were lynched at the he
NEW YORK, NY – MAY 22: Shonda Rhimes attends 2016 Vulture Festival at Milk Studios on May 22, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Jenny Anderson/WireImage)
A new river has formed in the United States. The name of it is the White Tears River and it’s filled with the tears of white people who feel Jesse Williams’ recent BET Awards speech was racist.
While crying their tears, these people took time out to even start a petition to remove the actor from Grey’s Anatomy.
The petition is titled, “Sign
My family on July 4th 1776.
@lecrae Done supporting you bro. You make everything a race issues lately instead of a gospel issue. You promote guilt instead of love.
@Hevi_On_Honkers nah it's actually your tweets that are problematic racially.
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*Stacey Dash has a new target.
Commenting on the speech given by Jesse Williams at the 2016 BET Awards, the right wing pundit wrote, “You’ve just seen the perfect example of a HOLLYWOOD plantation slave!”
“Sorry, Mr. Williams. But the fact that you were standing onstage at THOSE awards tells people you really don’t know what you’re talking about. Just spewing hate and anger,” she continued on her Patheos Blog.
Dash also took issue with Williams’ critique of “the bystander” – a term she seems
Lecrae doesn’t have all of the answers to solve the problems in the world, but he does believe some key factors are needed to improve some social injustices within the country.
According to The Washington Post, the rapper who was born as Lecrae Devaughn Moore believes in order for race relations to improve, there should be “unity, forgiveness, equity and justice.”
The Christian-rapper-turned-New-York-Times-bestselling author who is promoting his first bookUnashamed, hasn’t shied away from spe
Lecrae doesn’t have all of the answers to solve the problems in the world, but he does believe some key factors are needed to improve some social injustices within the country.
According to The Washington Post, the rapper who was born as Lecrae Devaughn Moore believes in order for race relations to improve, there should be “unity, forgiveness, equity and justice.”
The Christian-rapper-turned-New-York-Times-bestselling author who is promoting his first bookUnashamed, hasn’t shied away from spe
Beverly Johnson on Vogue
Model agents told her she’d never make it, hairdressers refused to touch her hair and Kodak didn’t even make film that could cope with her skin tone, but somehow 40 years ago Beverly Johnson became the first black woman on the cover of American Vogue.
“You mean there’s never been a woman of colour on the cover of Vogue magazine? Are you kidding me? We’re in the 1970s.”
When Beverly Johnson found out that she’d made the August 1974 cover of the fashion bible she was ec
A zoo vet carries out an autopsy on the young giraffe Sunday morning. The animal was reportedly killed by being shot. (KASPER PALSNOV/EPA)
Defiant officials at a Danish zoo defended the slaughter of a young giraffe that was hacked apart in front of small children and fed to lions.
Marius, a 2-year-old giraffe, was killed on Sunday at the Copenhagen Zoo, and then dissected by veterinarians as people in a live audience watched and asked questions.
A private donor had offered the equivalent of $
