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The United States Just Hit Equal Pay Day For Black Women

2Apr

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POLITICS, WORK

The United States Just Hit Equal Pay Day For Black Women

September 21 marks Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, the day of the year on which the median earnings of a working Black woman will have caught up to the median 2021 annual earnings of a non-Latino White man. This year’s observance is over a month later than 2021’s appointed day, August 3. Why is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day so much later than last year? The change comes from a methodological switch: Equal Pay Today, the collaborative of nonprofits and advocacy groups that generally designates Equal Pay Day observances, decided to include part-time workers in its calculation. Here’s how employment is usually measured in this country: The main data from agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics refers to non-agricultural labor (“nonfarm”) due to the difficulty tracking that kind of season...

Black Girls Are 4.19 Times More Likely To Get Suspended Than White Girls – And Hiring More Teachers Of Color Is Only Part Of The Solution

2Apr

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EDUCATION, VIDEO REELS

Black Girls Are 4.19 Times More Likely To Get Suspended Than White Girls – And Hiring More Teachers Of Color Is Only Part Of The Solution

Andrea Joseph-McCatty is an assistant professor at the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee. Her research examines disproportional school suspensions and, in particular, the ways in which inequity impacts the experiences of students of color. Below are highlights from an interview with The Conversation. Answers have been edited for brevity and clarity. Dr. Andrea Joseph-McCatty discusses her research on understanding and addressing racially disproportional school suspensions. You recently gave a talk about the disproportionate suspension of Black girls in the U.S. Why is equity so hard in our schools? Most recently my work has focused on understanding and addressing racially disproportional school suspensions and the ways in which those are also gender disproportionate. F...

A History Of Myths About Black Hair: From Slavery To Colonialism And School Rules

2Apr

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CULTURE, VIDEO REELS

A History Of Myths About Black Hair: From Slavery To Colonialism And School Rules

“Your hair feels like pubic hair.” That was one of the first insults that someone hurled at my hair. She was a junior at my school. She would touch my hair and repeat this sentence to all present. I had to threaten her with violence to get her to stop touching my hair and comparing it to her pubes. This is one of the first dilemmas that black people face: do I let people touch my hair and under what circumstances? The question, “can I touch it?” becomes one of the most awkward social moments and can break relationships before they even start. This fascination with the texture of black hair (please don’t call it “ethnic”), is not new. In slave societies, white women would often hack off the hair of their enslaved female servants because it supposedly “confused white men” . Today, black w...

4Apr

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IN OTHER NEWS

Tips For Black Financial Empowerment

"The most dangerous of all dependencies is to depend on your powerful oppressor to free you and share power with you, because powerful people never train powerless people to take their power away from them." John Henrik Clarke Introduction The above quote from one of the towering giants of Afrocentric thought, the late John Henrik Clarke, speaks to the reality of present day power relations between Caucasians and Afrikans. Let's amend this quote in light of the topic of this paper, Black financial empowerment. "The most dangerous of all dependencies is to depend on your wealthy oppressor to free you and share wealth with you, because wealthy people (and nations) never train poor people (and nations) to take wealth away from them." John Henrik Clarke adapted by Paul Ifayomi Grant A...

Isabelle Fuhrman The Black-Haired Babe With Large Brown Eyes, And A Doll-Like Face

21Aug

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CELEBRITIES

Isabelle Fuhrman The Black-Haired Babe With Large Brown Eyes, And A Doll-Like Face

Isabelle Fuhrman grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, which is basically second Hollywood. It's no wonder that the black-haired babe with large brown eyes, clear porcelain skin, and a doll-like face was going to be a star. A casting director from Cartoon Network apparently spotted Isabella and decided to cast her on her show Cartoon Fridays. She also began doing commercial work for Rooms to Go Furniture and from there she was flown to Los Angeles to go on auditions and appear in different skits on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Want Free Access to Isabelle Fuhrman Sexy Pics & Clips? Click Here! She got her big break in 2009 when she was cast as Esther in the horror flick Orphan. She proved she was someone to watch! Soon after that, she played Clove in The Hunger Games (2012) and the freckle-...

College Requirements For Police Forces Can Save Black Lives – At What Cost?

4Apr

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IN OTHER NEWS

College Requirements For Police Forces Can Save Black Lives – At What Cost?

Police forces requiring at least a two-year college degree for employment are less likely to employ officers who engage in actions that cause the deaths of Black and unarmed citizens, according to our new peer-reviewed study of data on 235 U.S. city police departments from 2000 to 2016. Findings from our analysis conducted alongside colleagues professor William Sabol and David Snively, interim police chief in Morrow, Georgia, also revealed that Black citizens were no more likely than white citizens to die during police encounters in places where police are required to have more college education. With a few exceptions, most prior research shows officer education level and department college requirements do not significantly affect deadly police outcomes. That research is mostly limited b...

Atlanta Black, Indigenous Activists Resist ‘Cop City’ Plans At Historic Park

5Apr

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SOCIAL JUSTICE

Atlanta Black, Indigenous Activists Resist ‘Cop City’ Plans At Historic Park

A plan to construct a $90 million police training center at the South River Forest in Atlanta is facing resistance from residents, who say “Cop City” would threaten the community in more ways than one. Residents say the facility would take away a beloved green space and historic site that plays a crucial role protecting the city from flooding. “This is going to be the largest urban warfare training facility for police in the country,” said Jasmine Burnett, organizing director of Community Movement Builders, which is supporting resident opposition to the facility. “And, what does that mean when, in 2020, people were actually asking to abolish the police?” The South River Forest sits on the ancestral homeland of the Muscogee Creek people, who were forcibly removed in the early 19th Century...

Brittney Griner’s Russia Trial Resonates With Queer Black Women And Nonbinary People

2Apr

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LGBTQ

Brittney Griner’s Russia Trial Resonates With Queer Black Women And Nonbinary People

A Russian judge on Thursday sentenced WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner to nine years in a penal colony for drug possession and smuggling, in addition to a $1 million ruble fine, after being held for months in what the U.S. government has classified as a “wrongful detainment.” Griner’s case, which was first reported in March, has been followed closely by queer Black women and nonbinary activists, who told The 19th that her plight is personal to them. The WNBA star is one of the most famous, and most visible, Black lesbians in the world — and her case highlights the racial disparities that Black women are subjected to. “What she’s experiencing isn’t foreign to us,” said Victoria Kirby York, deputy executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition. The William...

Among Black Youths At Racially Segregated Schools – Alcohol Use More Likely

3Apr

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EDUCATION, HEALTH & WELLNESS

Among Black Youths At Racially Segregated Schools – Alcohol Use More Likely

Black youths who attend racially segregated schools are more likely to have drinking and behavior problems during childhood than Black youths in less segregated schools. This is according to a new study we conducted using national survey data from 1997 to 2014. School segregation, defined as the physical separation of students in schools based on their race, was ruled unconstitutional in 1954 as part of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision. Consequently, about 1,000 districts nationwide were under court orders to desegregate. However, school segregation has increased since 1991, when the first of a series of court decisions allowed districts to be released from court-ordered desegregation. Highly segregated schools – where less than 10% of students are white – in...

Black Women Prefer Hair Products Marketed With Them In Mind

4Apr

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BEAUTY

Black Women Prefer Hair Products Marketed With Them In Mind

Marketing reports indicate that black consumers long to feel authentically represented in advertising campaigns, especially black women. Black female consumers outpace other consumer groups in a number of spending categories, notably personal care and hair products, but feel unappreciated by top brands. This line of thinking raised several questions for me: With the fairly recent launch of an ethnic corporate product line, Pantene’s Gold Series Collection, are black women feeling the love? When faced with choosing between this new corporate option and Shea Moisture, a brand perceived to be black-owned, where does their allegiance lie? And if what people buy is an expression of their identity, then which brand best reflects black female consumers’ truest sense of self? Our study builds on ...