A small Kentucky church has voted to ban interracial couples from participating in worship services (with the exception of funerals) after a white former church member invited her black fiance to sing with her at the church ( Read more... )

I don't know if it's been posted before but I came across this and thought I'd share it with everyone.

Deconstructing the Myths of "The First Thanksgiving"

Just a little food for thought.

Okay, email forward, so brace yourself.On a recent trip to the United States , Tony Blair, Ex. Prime Minister of the UK , addressed a major gathering of Native American Indians. He spoke for almost an hour on his plans for a Carbon-Trading Tax for the UK and Europe At the conclusion of his speech, the crowd presented him with a plaque inscribed ( Read more... )

As someone from the South, I'm used to a certain amount of racism-blindness, but today was troubling ( Read more... )

Commercials have begun to air for the upcoming The Descendants. Here is the blurb from IMDB: A land baron tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife suffers a boating accident.

It's been a while since anyone talked about Hawaii's racial issues here in the community, so to give a brief overview, Hawaii is the only state in the US that ( Read more... )

My daughter's kindergarten class has a field trip planned to a nature center to go through a 90 min program called "Native Americans in Delaware: Young Lenape ( Read more... )

The STARS member who originally posted the posters on the tumblr posted an update about the campaign's effectiveness, saying that it brought people to the campus anti-racism organization and is making it possible for them to bring in guest speakers and give presentations about racism to other groups on-campus.

"Never underestimate what passion, ( Read more... )

We all know that the appropriation of Native culture by hipsters and other white people is an issue, but apparently no one told the Washington Post ( Read more... )

We all know that this stuff goes on, but this article puts a lot of commentary on record:

Article from CNN.

Hey, all.

Remember when not too long ago, I posted briefly about the " We're a culture, not a costume" posters and how awesome they were?

Predictably, there's been some backlash (oh, wait, "parody" because it's totally ironic, you gaiz) started in which dogs, vampires, daleks and other non-real non-humans feature in the roles previously held by ( Read more... )