There are 5 article(s) tagged racism:

• July 2022

  • Victims’ families languish as state effort to document civil rights-era crimes stalls

    A 2018 law created the Tennessee Civil Rights Crimes, Information, Reconciliation, and Research Center, but provided no additional funding or staff.

    By Laura Faith Kebede July 08, 2022

• June 2022

  • Laurelwood resident stands against hate with LOVE

    “I couldn’t figure out why someone would put that in our neighborhood,” Steve Brown said of racist communcation left at his front door.

    By Carmen Darden June 17, 2022

• May 2022

  • Sanford: Racial and ethnic diversity is something to embrace, not fear

    “The internet is full of screeds and bellowing referencing the fringe theory that white Americans are slowly but surely becoming extinct.”

    By Otis Sanford May 19, 2022

• July 2021

  • Opinion: I was born lucky, but don’t tell anybody. That’s illegal.

    Dan Conaway: ‘This is not about guilt. This is about awareness. If you were born white, you did absolutely nothing to deserve the privileges you’ve enjoyed because of it.’

    By Dan Conaway July 02, 2021

• October 2020

  • Opinion: How can you help? Pay attention, listen, vote

    “As a white woman in the remaining months of her thirties, I may not be the demographic that typically fits the bill to talk about allyship but ...Black and Brown Americans are tired, and frankly it’s not their responsibility to make white people better humans.” 

    By Ashleigh Nelson October 06, 2020