Black college athletes are emotionally and physically harmed in ways not widely recognized, said Dr. Gabby Yearwood, a socio-cultural anthropologist at the University of Pittsburgh. For example, “There is no student that would ever tolerate me speaking to them” the way athletes are harangued by coaches. Very few college athletes become professionals, but all carry the burden of physical and emotional injury, said Yearwood, who wrote an article titled “Playing Without Power: Black Male NCAA Student Athletes Living With Structural Racism.”
Haiti's oligarchy of light skinned, "white" families are the rulers of the country and act in collusion with the U.S. to maintain their power and prevent the emergence of a sovereign…
The Black Alliance for Peace opposes all foreign intervention in Haiti and calls for the sovereign rights of Haitians to be respected by the international community.
An Open Letter to Her Excellency, Dr. Carla Natalie Barnett Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), on the need to Support Haitian Sovereignty
Washington DC was once known as Chocolate City. After years of gentrification Black residents are now a minority of the population.
The 13th amendment allows slavery for incarcerated people. The state of Alabama pays nothing for prison labor, rarely grants parole, and retaliates against those who protest unsanitary and unsafe…
