A new Word In Black survey explores how Black Americans define racial healing and what stands in the way of achieving it, providing a data-driven account of the current state of racial healing in the US.
Tag: discrimination
Posted inEducation
A woman was hired to investigate racial harassment after a suicide. Then she encountered it herself
By Hannah SchoenbaumThe Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Black woman hired by a northern Utah school district to investigate racial harassment complaints the year after a 10-year-old Black student died by suicide says that she, too, experienced discrimination from district officials. Joscelin Thomas, a former coordinator in the Davis School District’s equal […]
Posted inBooks
Books don’t create racists
Submitted by Kevin Palmer Dear Afro.com Editor, To discontinue publishing six Dr. Suess books because of racist and insensitive imagery will not help change America’s racist character no more than dressing up like a clown changed serial killer John Wayne Gacy’s character. Hiding racially insensitive books from children does not foster long-standing amicable race relations. […]