racism

UPDATE:  Students Pack 6/14/12 CCA Board Meeting – Advance the Fight to Force Board to ‘Decline to Renew’ Contract of Racist Teacher March Today, March Tomorrow and Keep Fighting Until we Win! On Friday, May 25, 2012, over 200 students walked out of Cesar Chavez Academy (CCA) Middle School and High School to demand a [...]

Double Underrepresented Minority Enrollment at the University of California! BUILD THE LEADERSHIP OF THE NEW INDEPENDENT INTEGRATED YOUTH-LED CIVIL AND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS MOVEMENT ORGANIZE AND LEAD MASS-MILITANT ACTIONS TO WIN OUR DEMANDS. 3:00pm at Murphy hall outside main entrance We demand: Save Dr. King’s Dream for America in California Save the Promise of Equality Embodied [...]

RALLY, SATURDAY APRIL 7th at 11:00 am  The Islamic Center of America 19500 Ford Road, Dearborn, MI 48128 ALL OUT to Protect and Keep Safe the Arab and Muslim community! Defend Freedom of Religion for All! Download this flyer in English Download this flyer in Arabic Stop Racist Immigrant-Bashing and the Scapegoating of America’s Arab, Black, [...]

High school and college students rallied outside the courthouse on March 7th and then filled both the courtroom and an overflow room as BAMN attorney George Washington argued for the overturn of Prop 2, the ban on affirmative action in Michigan. On the occasion of the court proceedings, Black Agenda Radio interviewed both George Washington [...]

Michigan Students Travel to Cincinnati to Support Affirmative Action at 6th Circuit Court of Appeals On Wednesday, March 7, 2012, a 15-judge en banc panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in their review of the 6th Circuit ruling last summer that Proposal 2, the ban on affirmative action in Michigan, is unconstitutional. George Washington, attorney for [...]

Stop the Corporate Austerity Drive that’s Pushing Us into Poverty PICKET & RALLY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17,  4:30 PM  City-County Building (Woodward/Jefferson) This country is not broke. The top tiers of our nation continue to grow more obscenely wealthy as the gap between the rich and the poor, working class and even middle-class grows wider each [...]

Say No to the New Jim Crow! Realize Dr. King’s Dream in Michigan! Day of Action to Defend Affirmative Action Rally & March November 17 at 12Noon Gather on the UM Diag Increase Black, Latina/o, Native American and Other Underrepresented Minority Student Enrollment Now! In-state Tuition for Michigan’s Undocumented Students & Pass the DREAM Act [...]

The Fight for Integration & Equality “You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: Now you are free to go where you want, and do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please. You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring [...]

      The Myth of Meritocracy, continued   Why GPA is not a race-neutral admissions criterion From Kindergarten through high school, racist inequality and segregation permeate education in America. Majority black and Latina/o schools receive less per-pupil funding, have fewer books, less academic, sports and art equipment and facilities, and have less diversity of [...]

 Answers to Common Questions About the SAT “In 1997, black students from families with incomes between $80,000 and $100,000 did in fact score lower on the SAT than did white students from families with incomes of less than $10,000.” Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Summer 1998, p. 6 [onethird] 2007 College-bound Seniors’ Average SAT [...]