Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Black woman crowned Miss Universe Great Britain for the first time Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers from Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, became the first black woman to hold the title of Miss Universe Great Britain on the weekend. She will now represent Great Britain at Miss Universe 2018.

Sports Illustrated's Latest Show Was Inclusive of Everyone—Or Was It? Sports Illustrated’s presentation at 2018 Miami Swim Week aimed to give  all women a chance to be models, whether they had a prosthetic leg or were a breastfeeding mother. As a result, there were many unexpected appearances on the SI runway on Sunday after Sports Illustrated  held its first ever in-person open casting call , which took place at the W South Beach in Miami, Fla. The casting call invited women of all shapes and sizes a chance to audition in hopes of walking the Swim Week runway. In total, 16 models were selected, but a few models really made a statement.

USING DOGS AS A TOOL OF RACIST REPRESSION LIKE MANY aspects of modern policing, police dogs  have their historical roots in slavery and colonialism . Cuban bloodhounds were tools in the hands of professional slave catchers for recapturing and brutalizing fleeing slaves, and instruments of psychological terror to prevent others from trying to escape. From slavery to Jim Crow to the era of mass incarceration, attack dogs have been a continuous feature of anti-Black violence. It’s still the case today that police dogs are used disproportionately to maul and terrorize people of color. The Ferguson police department’s apartheid policy of dog attacks for Black people only isn’t unique. A 2013 report similarly found  that 100 percent of the victims of police dog bites in Los Angeles County in the first six months of that year were Black or Latino. The stark numbers show that no progress has been made in LA since former Police Chief Daryl Gates and the LAPD were sued by ...

Why McDonald's, Coke And General Mills Made African-Americans Their Lead Consumer In an   Advertising Age  special report , leaders from these companies explained why they've made African-Americans their lead consumer. Mark Addicks is retired now, but as the chief marketing officer at General Mills he gave insight into why they made that strategic choice. It’s hard to imagine the American cultural landscape without the influence and impact of African Americans. They represent all of the iconic cultural markers of our society: business, music, entertainment, fashion, sports, government, education. In every aspect they’re seen as cultural thought leaders …

$26.5 million grant to fund first large-scale study of African-American men with prostate cancer : Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center will participate in a $26.5 million effort to conduct the first large-scale, multi-institutional study on African-American men with prostate cancer to better understand why they are at higher risk for developing more aggressive forms of the disease and why they are more likely to die from it.

Recreating the Black Male Narrative Despite the negative connotations of African American males and the economic and societal hardships they experience, there are many examples of successful African American males who have persisted through the educational pipeline in stark contrast to the negative stereotypes and statistics. In various cities throughout the US, African American males are showing what is possible when we provide them with the resources and support needed to be successful. Organizations such as Student African American Brotherhood (SAAB), Brother-2-Brother (B-2-B), Boys 2 Kings, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and Higher Achievement, have a wide array of goals that are accomplished through different programmatic features. However, we would like to highlight an initiative birthed in Milwaukee, WI that has transcended expectations and significantly impacted the lives of its Black male participants. This initiative is called the MKE Fellows.

DEMOCRATS' IMMIGRATION DOGMA IS DAMAGING AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES | OPINION Immigrants—both legal and illegal—tend to congregate in large cities and take positions in the unskilled workforce. In fact, so many immigrants who lack high school diplomas have come to the U.S. in the past 20 years that they've increased the size of the low-skilled workforce by 25 percent.   That puts them in direct competition with African-Americans, who disproportionately occupy the low-wage urban labor market. Work from the eminent Harvard economist George Borjas shows that when immigration increases the size of the labor pool by 10 percent, wages for African American men drop 2.5 percent—and their employment rate declines by nearly 6 percent.  Likewise, a 2010 report from the U.S. Civil Rights Commission concluded that African American men are "more likely to be in labor competition with immigrants." Commissioner Peter Kirsanow emphasized how this competition ca...