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CHRIS KEANE/REUTERS ‘We have to also acknowledge we have some serious problems with race and justice and systemic racism which unfortunately is all too often present,’ Hillary Clinton said Thursday at a South Carolina event. WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton declared that “black lives matter” in South Carolina Thursday, as she repeatedly stressed that endemic…
Photo Mourners at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C., in June after nine people were killed there. The killings generated a national outpouring of outrage and grief. Credit Travis Dove for The New York Times Seven years ago, in the gauzy afterglow of a stirring election night in Chicago, commentators dared ask whether the United…
Actor Derek Luke‘s online followers became concerned with the race of his wife recently, and he’s not having it. Luke, 41, addressed the issue via Instagram after he noticed some comments on one of his social media accounts concerned with the fact that his wife is not Black. He has been married to actress Sophia Adella…
When I see news of a black boy being shot dead by police on a playground because he was holding a plastic gun; or a black woman being pushed to the ground with a knee at her neck, then ending up dead while in police custody, I’m not wondering whether a white girl in Arizona…
Photo: MTV; Josiah Kamau/BuzzFoto via Getty Images; Prince Williams/FilmMagic “Ready to get uncomfortable with us?” asked the official MTV Twitter account on Wednesday, preparing its audience for the documentary White People, which aired that night. In the hour-long special, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Jose Antonio Vargas talks to young people — many of them white —…
Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 In her new book, The Internet of Garbage, Sarah Jeong states that “the Internet is, and always has been, mostly garbage.” She talked with The Toast about topics discussed in her book, including online harassment, doxing, spam, free speech, and the challenges of moderating content platforms and social media networks. You can buy…
Nearly two weeks after Sandra Bland was arrested during a traffic stop and subsequently died while in police custody, another new development has been made public. In a recording obtained by an ABC affiliate and confirmed by a local judge, the 28-year-old Bland called a friend from prison hours after her first court appearance on…
Sandra Bland, the woman who was found dead earlier this month in a Texas jail, left a voicemail for her friend from jail, and now it’s been obtained by a number of media outlets. Bland was arrested after a police officer pulled her over for not signaling a lane change. Things escalated, the officer got…
During a routine traffic stop on Sunday night, white University of Cincinnati campus police officer Ray Tensing shot 43-year-old black man Samuel Dubose in the head. Dubose was missing a license plate on the front of his car, according to police officials, university police chief Jason Goodrich told the Guardian. Dubose allegedly refused to provide a…
The concept and practice of disrupting a formal occasion with a protest always seemed awkward to me, not just for the people being disrupted but for the protesters as well. Generally, I think, there’s a tendency for this form of protest to make the activists involved look unserious. On the extreme end of the spectrum,…