Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

In December, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) released a directive calling for three large-scale natural resource projects in British Columbia to be “immediately” shut down, including the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline that would feed into a massive export facility along the West coast. The project has signed benefit agreements with 20 Indigenous communities along its 670-kilometre route.

Feeling guilty about your total lack of heroism in the face of increasing hatred, racism, and anti-Semitism? Us too. An op-ed in today’s New York Times by philosopher Rivka Weinberg mines historical lessons from the Holocaust to provide a to-do list for bystanders. “Bystanding is not the problem,” she writes. Phew . “What we need to guard against is hate and collaboration with hate.”

We found only 25 articles that named institutionalized racism in the title or abstract among all articles published in the public health literature during 2002-2015 in the 50 highest-impact journals and 6 categories representing the public health field in the United States. Institutionalized racism was a core concept in 16 of the 25 articles.

Footage of a rap battle has started to circulate featuring a white rapper—who VladTV identified as William Wolf—being punched in the mouth by his black opponent for calling him a "n***a." In the full video, Wolf taunts his opponent by telling him that if he doesn't "steal [hit] him in the third round" then it's not a battle. It also appears the other rapper told Wolf not to use "n***a" in his bars. "And you told me what not to say," Wolf said 15 seconds into the video. "Now, I'ma say it." https://www.whytheracecardisplayed.com/

One of the county’s biggest fire services has been accused of discrimination after it emerged white men have to score higher in its recruitment tests than anyone else.

Set in a segregated barracks during WWII, the Pulitzer-winning “A Soldier's Play” is finally staged on Broadway—a fiercely written, directed, and performed indictment of racism.

Public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson is the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, which represents people who have been illegally convicted, unfairly sentenced or abused in state jails and prisons. In 2018, EJI founded a museum and monument in Montgomery, Ala., to address the atrocities of slavery, lynching and segregation. "We need to create institutions in this country that motivate more people to say 'Never again,'" he says. Stevenson's 2014 memoir 'Just Mercy' is now a movie starring Michael B. Jordan.