A video of a Texas man calling a Black woman racial slurs has gone viral after being shared on TikTok and Instagram. The incident happened inside a 7-Eleven in Stafford, Texas, near Houston on Oct. 19. The security guard, later identified as David Bryan Tupper, was captured on video calling Denishia Lewis “N—er trash.” According to … Read more
Hope Reed was seeing stark disparities a decade ago at her high school in the suburbs of Columbia, South Carolina. Nearly half the school’s students were white, but the freshman remedial math classes were made up of almost all students of color. Reed, then chair of the math department at Blythewood High School, intervened with … Read more
France’s highest administrative authority has rejected an effort by rights campaigners to end what they allege is a generalized practice by French police of targeting Black people and people of Arab descent for stops and checks ByThe Associated Press October 11, 2023, 9:51 AM FILE – View of the Conseil d’Etat, France’s top administrative court, … Read more
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. … Read more
On the day Mary Sara died of tuberculosis in a Seattle sanitarium, the physician caring for the 18-year-old supplied her mind to one of the vital revered museums on the planet. A photograph of Mary Sara arriving in Seattle in 1933. (Seattle Submit-Intelligencer, Jan. 17, 1933) The younger lady — whose household was Sami, or … Read more
A viral video exhibits a person yelling and hurling racial slurs at a Black man in what seems to be a street rage incident within the metro-Atlanta space. Within the 56-second video posted on X, the person sporting a grey work shirt and backward cap approaches the Black man’s window at a freeway exit in … Read more