The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration by Michelle Alexander

Legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues persuasively we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration as a system of social control. —More African Americans are...
365 Black History: February 2nd

365 Black History: February 2nd

The U.S. Senate confirms Eric Holder as U.S. Attorney General. He is the first African-American in the nation to hold the post. Also, on this day in 1995, Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. becomes the first African-American to walk in space while involved in the deployment and...
Oh No! Fox News Receives Lowest Ratings in 12 Years

Oh No! Fox News Receives Lowest Ratings in 12 Years

This might become a great surprise to you…in a great way. The January 2013 television ratings are in and guess what? Fox News received its lowest rating in the past 12 years. Not good at all, but many of you are probably pretty happy about the findings. buy...
365 Black History: February 1st

365 Black History: February 1st

February 1, 1960: On Feb. 1, 1960, Ezell A. Blair Jr., Franklin E. McCain, Joseph A. McNeil, and David L. Richmond staged a sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter, in Greensboro, N.C. The four African-American college students, later known as the Greensboro Four,...