AltWeeklies Wire
Racism Affects Families from Generation to Generationnew
In the 1940s and '50s, university segregation prevented many black and Latino GIs from obtaining higher education promised by the GI Bill.
Jackson Free Press |
JFP Staff |
07-01-2013 |
Race & Class
Tags: GI Bill
What Is Racism? Why Meanings Matter in Conversations About Racenew
Generally speaking, semantics of race falls into two categories. Those who wish that conversation about it cease, arguing that "all that is behind us," tend to define various forms of prejudice, bigotry and racism as the exact same thing—usually followed by arguing that "everyone does it" as a way to end the effort at dialogue. This may or may not be done on purpose.
Jackson Free Press |
JFP Staff |
07-01-2013 |
Race & Class
Tags: racism
Dialogue is Not Debatenew
It's easy to fall into a debate about race and racism, but debate usually hardens our positions, instead of opening us to the possibility of change.
Jackson Free Press |
JFP Staff |
07-01-2013 |
Race & Class
Facts Matter; So Do Stereotypesnew
Disparities between whites and people of color in the United States, and Mississippi, are still wide, and they result from years of historic racism and inequality.
Jackson Free Press |
JFP Staff |
07-01-2013 |
Race & Class
Crimes Against (Some) Americansnew
In the past 30 years, America's prison population has exploded. Since 1970, our prison population has risen 700 percent, and the U.S. now houses roughly 25 percent of all prisoners in the world, despite having only 5 percent of the world's population.
Jackson Free Press |
JFP Staff |
07-01-2013 |
Race & Class
Question Itnew
One effective way to begin to understand our racial biases is to examine where they came from.
Jackson Free Press |
JFP Staff |
07-01-2013 |
Race & Class
Let's Talk About Racenew
First and foremost, there can't be any discussion about race and racism unless you're willing to entertain the notion that it still exists—that we're not living in a "post-racial" society—and that racism continues to cause serious problems in America.
Jackson Free Press |
JFP Staff |
07-01-2013 |
Race & Class
Breaking the Silencenew
When James Ford Seale finally went on trial for his role in the 1964 kidnapping and deaths of Henry Dee and Charles Moore in Meadville, our reporting staff was blown away by the jury-selection process.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
07-01-2013 |
Race & Class
Pain in the Brainnew
If you suffer from chronic headaches, something in your diet may be the culprit.
Jackson Free Press |
Tam Curley |
07-01-2013 |
Health
Taking Jobs from Blacks? Not so Muchnew
When Chokwe Lumumba was a new member of the Jackson City Council, he went looking for an answer to the dubious adage that undocumented immigrants performing low-skill jobs in the U.S. take jobs away native-born African Americans. Lumumba, who sponsored an anti-racial-profiling ordinance, turned to Dr. Steven Pitts, a labor policy expert at the University of California Berkeley Center of for Labor Research and Education.
Jackson Free Press |
JFP Staff |
07-01-2013 |
Race & Class
Internet Killed the Video Starnew
YouTube has made it all too easy to see any music video, any time, changing the way we see the art form.
Jackson Free Press |
Micah Smith |
07-01-2013 |
Tech
What Is White Privilege?new
The problem with white privilege is that those who enjoy it usually don't know it, or want to know. It takes a deliberate effort to see through the dirty water of privilege, but it's worth it for deeper racial understanding and meaningful dialogue.
Jackson Free Press |
Tim Wise |
07-01-2013 |
Race & Class
Tags: White Privilege
Hood: Google Pushing Illegal Drugsnew
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says Google is an “accessory before the fact” to online sales of illegal pharmaceuticals.
Jackson Free Press |
Tyler Cleveland |
06-13-2013 |
Business & Labor
In Medgar's Drivewaynew
At his Jackson home, now a museum to his life and death, you can stand in the spot where Medgar Evers died. If you travel to 2332 Margaret Alexander Walker Drive (close to what is now Medgar Evers Boulevard), you can visit a somber place that is still intact--house, driveway, everything.
Jackson Free Press |
Trip Burns |
06-06-2013 |
Civil Liberties
Mr. Dylan, Mr. Eversnew
It was raining the morning of May 17, 2003. I was in my office, worrying about what the Jubilee! JAM organizers must be going through. It's hard to make this festival pay off in good weather, not to mention in times of thunderstorms and crime hysteria. I knew the rain, coming on the JAM's big day—Cassandra Wilson, Bob Dylan and Gerald Levert were scheduled that evening—would be playing hell with the moods of the organizers.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
06-06-2013 |
Civil Liberties
