Tag / racism
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Remembering Jackie Robinson: Racial Equality in Sports
BY BENJAMIN COMPALL If Jackie Robinson were alive today, I wonder how he would feel about the current racial state of sports. Surely, as the first African American professional baseball player, he would feel great pride in seeing how far things have come. As Americans, we love these “first-ever” narratives- and Robinson’s holds a particularly…
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Racism in European Soccer
BY MAX HANDLER Dani Alves was fed up, fed up with the racism of soccer fans and the seeming indifference of soccer authorities. So on April 27th, 2014, when a fan of the Spanish team Villarreal threw a banana at him, he took a stand: he picked up the banana and ate. His teammate Neymar…
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A Drive-By Shooting in Cleveland
BY RAJA KRISHNA The following is based on security footage and audio evidence released to the public by the Cleveland Police Department. Access the video here. On Saturday, November 22nd, 2014, while the world held its breath in anticipation of the Ferguson grand jury decision, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was kicking at some freshly fallen snow…
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Sentencing War: Disparities and Injustices in Cracking Down on Cocaine
BY HAYLEY LEVY The United States, with only 5 percent of the world’s population, has 25 percent of the world’s prison population. Presently, individuals in the United States are incarcerated at a rate of 748 inmates per 100,000 people. The country with the closest rate is Russia, with a rate of 600 incarcerated per 100,000…
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Racial Segregation Indices in Metro Areas, From Past to Present
BY DANIEL RAGGS III
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Issues of Diversity Contemporary America
BY BLACK ANTHOLOGY GROUP Black Anthology, an annual student theater production focused on the experience of African-Americans, is titled this year “Post-” and grapples with the question of whether or not we live in a “post-racial” America. This year’s show is particularly relevant to our country and our campus as we continue to struggle with…
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Asian Americans and the #NotYourAsianSidekick Movement
BY DELIA SHEN for CHINESE STUDENT ASSOCIATION Today, Asian Americans are often viewed as a “model minority,” a minority group that achieves higher levels of success than the general population. This term not only overlooks the many Asian Americans who live in poverty or face health problems, but also diminishes the power of any call…
