Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Cynthia Jordan, a vice-president at a stock transfer fund, said cab driver Baqir Raza refused to pick up her and her daughters, but let two white females get into his taxi. View Full Caption LinkedIn/Cynthia Jordan MIDTOWN — A yellow taxi driver must pay $25,000 in fines and compensation for discriminating against a…
Credit: Jake Reeves/The Huffington Post FERGUSON, Mo. — Nearly a half-century ago, a University of Missouri law professor named T.E. Lauer issued a warning. Missouri’s network of municipal courts, he wrote, were “a modern anomaly” generally “overlooked or ignored as the misshapen stepchildren of our judicial system.” It was “disgraceful,” he argued, that poor people…
Photo The burial service for Sandra Bland on Saturday in Lisle, Ill. Credit Joshua Lott for The New York Times LISLE, Ill. — Funerals are often predictably somber — a cloistering and culminating of grief and pain. Not Sandra Bland’s funeral. (Everyone called her Sandy, by the way.) Sandy’s was simultaneously celebratory and defiant. Bland…
Photo Credit Oliver Munday LIKE many others, I was stunned by the story of the Minnesota dentist who hunted and killed a 13-year-old lion, Cecil, in Zimbabwe. It was a brutal, senseless thing. The story has gone viral because it offers a strange alchemy of arrogant privilege, an animal’s being lured out of safety and…
Wilson has been living for several months on a nondescript street on the outskirts of St. Louis. He hasn’t read the Justice Department’s report on systemic racism in Ferguson. span id=”incorrect”>Wilson hasn’t read the Justice Department’s report on systemic racism in Ferguson. “I’m not going to keep living in the past,” he said. Credit Photograph…
On Monday, police in Mount Vernon, New York, found Raynetta Turner dead in her holding cell. According to Mayor Ernest Davis, Turner, who was 44, had been arrested for shoplifting on Saturday. Though the cause of her death is still being investigated, Davis has confirmed that Turner reported various medical issues when she was arrested,…
Homogeneity is a big problem in an industry whose ambition is to serve and inform an increasingly diverse public. Mark Makela / Reuters We noticed that you have an AD BLOCKER ENABLED Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now > Landing an…
Michael Brown’s killing brought to light the horrific case of Henry Davis, who was beaten by Ferguson cops, then charged with bleeding on them. Now he’s finally allowed to sue them. The Ferguson cops charged Henry Davis with destruction of property because he bled on their uniforms when they beat him. Then, as if fearing…
Late last week, on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, a hooded individual distributed fliers and hung posters declaring a war on immigration. Using the most recent covers of Charlie Hebdo as a backdrop, the flier was intended to be a call to action and an ominous warning: “America is ours, and we…
Hillary Clinton: We can’t hide from hard truths on race In San Francisco, Hillary Clinton spoke at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors on the need to address systemic racism in the wake of the shooting in Charleston. Thank you! Thank you all so much. It’s great to be here…