AvatarNeedle To The RecordAvatarAvatarHumans Having Sex With Neanderthals Gave Us Protection Against Ancient Viral Epidemicsverified_publisherScienceAlert - Mike McRaeIt's little secret that Neanderthals and our ancestors intimately enjoyed each other's company. The legacy of this occasional genetic mixing persists …
AvatarNeedle To The RecordAvatarAvatar‘The Star-Spangled Banner’s’ racist lyrics reflect its slave owner author, Francis Scott KeyThe Undefeated - Jamie StiehmFrancis Scott Key and Colin Kaepernick are perfect opposites in a drama of privilege versus protest in America. Key, an elite insider and author of …
AvatarNeedle To The RecordAvatarAvatarVeteran: Unite the Right white supremacists violate every principle I defended in uniformverified_publisherUSA TODAY - Scott CooperThe America I fought for is not the one Unite the Right wants. A year after Charlottesville, veterans at home are holding the line against hate and for US values. Watching white supremacists and neo-Nazis march with torches, body armor, shields, and swastikas a year ago made my stomach turn. Now, …
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AvatarNeedle To The RecordAvatarAvatarThe Myth of Irish Slavery: A History of One of the Alt-Right's Oldest MemesInverse - Jonathan LeeThe alt-right has always painted white people as victims of a system they rule. On July 15, comedian Josh Androsky tweeted a video of a Proud Boy, a …
AvatarNeedle To The RecordAvatarAvatarThe spot where Emmett Till’s body was found is marked by this sign. People keep shooting it up.Chicago Tribune - Washington PostEmmett Till’s black, broken body was plucked from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi days after his killing in Aug. 1955, a heavy cotton gin fan tied on his neck with barbed wire. It took 19 days for two white men, Roy Bryant and his brother-in-law J.W. Milam, to be acquitted of murder by an …
AvatarNeedle To The RecordAvatarAvatar‘There are more Trayvon Martins than Obamas’: the Jay-Z docuseries exposing Americaverified_publisherThe Guardian - Steve RoseAs a chilling new Netflix series about the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012 is released, its directors discuss the historic case that sparked an urgent debate about racism in the US
AvatarNeedle To The RecordAvatarAvatarRon Stallworth, the Black Cop Who Went Undercover in the KKK, Exposed Its U.S. Military TiesThe Daily Beast - Carol McKinleyRon Stallworth, subject of the upcoming Spike Lee film ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ opens up about how he successfully infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and the many …
AvatarNeedle To The RecordAvatarAvatarBill Gates Wants You To See The World This Way (Warning: Once You Do You Can't Un-See It)verified_publisherInc Magazine - Thomas KoulopoulosEvery so often an image flashes across our collective social consciousness that forever changes how we see the world and ourselves. This is one of them. Every so often something comes along that dramatically alters our perception of the world. These are social memes that are utterly simplistic but …
AvatarNeedle To The RecordAvatarAvatarHow A Black Detective Infiltrated The KKKverified_publisherNPR - Scott SimonIn 1978, Ron Stallworth was working as a detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department when he came across a classified ad to find out more about the Ku Klux Klan — and answered it. Two weeks later, he got a call on the police department's undercover operations line. It was the local KKK …
AvatarNeedle To The RecordFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHow the North does Jim Crowboingboing.net - Rob BeschizzaSegregation was an institution of the American south, but the north had its ways and means. At the New York Times, Andrew W. Kahrl explains that …
AvatarNeedle To The RecordAvatarAvatarHow Baby Boomers Broke AmericaTIME - Steven BrillLately, most Americans, regardless of their political leanings, have been asking themselves some version of the same question: How did we get here? How did the world’s greatest democracy and economy become a land of crumbling roads, galloping income inequality, bitter polarization and dysfunctional …