#racial-inequality

#racial-inequality

At age 76, the Brockton great-grandmother will graduate from Bridgewater State University with a degree in Sociology and a minor in African American Studies - a milestone more than 50 years in the making. For decades, Sheryl Royster put college on hold while raising children, caring for loved ones, and navigating financial hardship. Now, at age 76, she will complete the degree she once delayed, turning a long-held goal into a graduation day achievement.

In 1965, an electrifying debate took place at the Cambridge Union Society. The speakers were James Baldwin, an acclaimed American novelist and civil rights activist, and William F. Buckley Jr., a conservative intellectual. The motion debated was 'The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro'. The overflowing hall was packed to the rafters. Baldwin won the debate by 544 votes to 164. 60 years have passed, yet it echoes down the decades with issues raised still relevant today.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani used his Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on Monday to push back against warnings that his plan for higher taxes on wealthy New Yorkers would drive them out of the city, arguing that city leaders have ignored what he described as a more concrete and damaging population loss. When I speak about how the wealthiest in this city should pay a little bit more in taxes, I am often told about a potential exodus, Mamdani said.

All that matters is what you do in between whether you're prepared to do what it takes to make change. There has to be physical and material sacrifice. When all the dust settles and we're getting ready to play down for the ninth inning, the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.

Racial minorities bear the brunt of US political violence, but only white Americans hold the power to stop it. Conservative activist Charlie Kirk's shocking murder at a Utah speaking event, which has sent shockwaves through the nation, is further evidence that political violence is now a distinctive feature of modern American politics. Although the shooter was eventually identified as a white 22-year-old

In addition to the pandemic, 2020 was marked by "the deadliest gun violence in decades." Since then, the US continues to lead the world in gun violence. Those on the left, broadly construed, profess to want to address gun violence. Those on the right, broadly construed, offer thoughts and prayers after each mass shooting and then obstruct efforts to address gun violence.

"This building holds the history of Altadena. We have been archiving for 90 years," said Jones, president of the Altadena Historical Society and a resident for more than 60 years.

Black, brown and Indigenous communities have always seen the gap between the ideals of American democracy and the lived reality of exclusion. The contradiction is far from new.

Frazier's video didn't just show what happened. It insisted the world stop and see.

Critics of CRT argue it's anti-scientific, challenging its universality and objectivity, yet the backlash often results from misunderstandings of its scholarly intentions.