by Jim Heath | Jul 18, 2020 | Headlines, Obit, Race
Civil rights icon John Lewis, whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers at Selma in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, has died at the age of 80 after battling pancreatic cancer. The Georgia congressman had been battling stage 4 pancreatic...
by Jim Heath | Jul 15, 2020 | Headlines, Race
In an extraordinary move, the Asheville City Council has apologized for the North Carolina city’s historic role in slavery, discrimination and denial of basic liberties to Black residents and voted to provide reparations to them and their descendants. The 7-0...
by Jim Heath | Jul 14, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, Race, Trump
Actor Rob Reiner has famously observed that the bigoted Archie Bunker character from ‘All in the Family’ bears comparisons to Donald Trump. ‘We’ve got Archie in the White House,’ Reiner said on the Stephen Colbert Show last year....
by Jim Heath | Jul 13, 2020 | Headlines, NFL, Race
The Washington Redskins announced this morning that they will change their team name, but the new name won’t be announced until later. The announcement comes after the organization released a statement July 3 saying it would be undertaking what it called a...
by Jim Heath | Jul 11, 2020 | Fox News, Headlines, Race
Tucker Carlson has long been suspected of being a white nationalist. His commentary has often sounded like it’s out of the racist handbook. Now we know his top writer, at least, certainly fits that description. Blake Neff has resigned from his position at the...
by Jim Heath | Jul 9, 2020 | Headlines, Race
The Supreme Court said today that a large swath of eastern Oklahoma remains an American Indian reservation, a decision with potential implications for nearly 2 million residents and one of the most significant victories for tribal rights in years. The land at issue...
