As waves of protesters gathered in Atlanta night after night to condemn the fatal police shootings of African American men, civil rights veteran Andrew Young stepped in to provide some encouragement – not to activists, but to police officers.
“Those are some unlovable little brats out there,” the 84-year-old former Atlanta mayor and U.S. ambassador said
Paul Monteiro saw the reports on social media — unrest over a black man killed at the hands of police in Baton Rouge — and quickly got on the phone with his regional director in Texas.
“What can you tell me?” he asked. “What more have you learned that can inform how we sort of figure
The National Basketball Association on Thursday dealt a blow to the economy and prestige of North Carolina by pulling next February’s All-Star Game from Charlotte to protest a state law that eliminated anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
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The diverse young crowd filled the pews at a Fresno church late last week to consider what Black Lives Matter might mean in their city.
Like protesters around the nation, they were angered at the police-shooting deaths of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana.
But it was outrage over the June fatal shooting of
A Florida police officer shot and wounded an autistic man’s black caretaker, authorities said, in an incident purportedly captured on cellphone video that shows the caretaker lying down with his arms raised before being shot.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Gerald Harris was walking along Ocean Beach, the blustery coastline at the western edge of the city, when he passed Danny Glover, a star of Hollywood action movies and a San Francisco native. The men exchanged glances.
“We were the only two black people in
WASHINGTON — At the White House last week, DeRay Mckesson, a Black Lives Matter activist who was arrested only days before in Baton Rouge, La., for protesting police violence against African-Americans, had a lengthy list of demands for President Obama.
The president
When Hollywood discusses diversity, one community is often left out of the conversation: people with disabilities. Even in its most recent iterations, prompted by #OscarsSoWhite, differently abled people in the industry seem unable to find a seat at the table.
A recent study by the Ruderman Family Foundation revealed that, despite those with disabilities representing nearly 20%
The day after five Dallas police officers were killed in an ambush, Montrell Jackson, a black police officer in Baton Rouge, La., took to Facebook to voice his frustration.
“I’m tired physically and emotionally,” he wrote, questioning the “nasty hateful looks” he received as a police officer and
Cheryl Dorsey faced a mirror in a Pasadena hair salon, at the beginning of an appointment that would eat up the whole morning and part of the afternoon. Her stylist, Ursula Simpson, carefully braided Dorsey’s locks before weaving in a spectacular lion’s mane of silver curls.
These things take time.
Dorsey could ill afford to spend half