January 19, 2015
By The Morning News
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- When the measure to create MLK Day passed in 1983, 112 members of Congress opposed it; six are still office.
- Like the tactics of MLK, the Black Lives Matter movement embraces direct action and discomfort—not just nonviolence.
- A father brings his daughter to a civil rights protest and wonders when the time is right to explain the world's ills.
- Forty-nine percent of Americans rank race relations as a public policy priority, just ahead of tax reform and right behind the environment.
- Calls for France to adopt a version of the Patriot Act, which disproportionately targets Muslims and Arab-Americans, are met with criticism.
- They see me as a black student before they see me as a UC Berkeley student.
- CUNY's emphasis on test scores for incoming freshmen is preventing black and Latino students from attending its top schools.
- African-American history classes often fall short, but the empathy they teach is invaluable.
- Arundhati Roy writes on caste and Ambedkar's radical, unfulfilled vision of equality.
- The tiny and struggling DEA predecessor found its calling targeting jazz culture and hunting down Billie Holiday.
- Discovering the dearth of blackness in popular culture.
- Race is a huge factor when it comes to making romantic connections online, one that puts certain groups at persistent, structural disadvantages.
- Red states slowly accept Obamacare dollars, adding conservative twists and costly bureaucratic cruft along the way.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, "Letter From Birmingham Jail."
- The world's richest 1% will soon own as much wealth as the other 99%.
