Dr. Boyce Talks With Latino Studies Professor Alan Aja on What You Need to Know About Immigration
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Dr. Boyce Watkins and Al Sharpton Discuss Henry Louis Gates's NY Times Article About "Slavery Name Game"
Dr. Boyce Watkins and Al Sharpton Discuss Henry Louis Gates' NY Times Article About "Slavery Name Game"
Arizona's Racist Immigration Law: Racial Profiling?
Dr. Boyce Watkins and Lola Adesioye from The Huffington Post discuss Arizona's controversial new immigration law and openly ask - is it racist?
Friday, April 23, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
National Action Network's Measuring the Movement Forum
Dr. Boyce Watkins Participates in National Action Network's Measuring the Movement Forum
Are the Birthers Racist Against Obama?
Dr. Boyce Watkins and Lola Adesioye ask whether the birthers are racist against President Obama
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Dr. Boyce Watkins Discusses "Measuring the Movement" Forum with Al Sharpton on Keeping It Real
Dr. Boyce Watkins Discusses "Measuring the Movement" Forum and other current events with Al Sharpton on Keeping It Real
Dorothy Height Dies: Where are Women in Black Leadership?
Is there going to be another Dorothy Height, and why are women generally excluded from black leadership in America?
Monday, April 19, 2010
Should a White Supremacist Have Freedom of Speech?
Obama has had his life threatened by white supremacists - Should they be able to say whatever they want, even if it leads others to violence?
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Al Sharpton, NAACP and The Black Agenda: What Does it All Means?
In this second part on our series about The Black Agenda, Dr. Boyce Watkins and Lola Adesioye talk about what black leadership really means and how individuals can be empowered to lead their own communities.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Blacks Far More likely to be Incarcerated than Whites
This data was gathered from the prison initiative and shows that there is more racism in the US prison system than there was in South Africa During Apartheid:
Incarceration is not an equal opportunity punishment
by Peter Wagner
Updated June 28, 2005
On June 30, 2004, there were 2,131,180 people in U.S. prisons and jails. That's a rise of 2.3% during the 12 previous months. Federal prisons are growing almost 5 times faster than state prison populations.
As of June 30, 2004, the U.S. incarceration rate was 726 per 100,000 residents. But when you break down the statistics you see that incarceration is not an equal opportunity punishment.
U.S. incarceration rates by race, June 30, 2004
Gender is an important "filter" on the who goes to prison or jail:
Look at just the males by race, and the incarceration rates become even more frightening
If you look at males aged 25-29 and by race, you can see what is going on even clearer
Or you can make some international comparisons
South Africa under Apartheid was internationally condemned as a racist society. What does it mean that the leader of the "free world" locks up its Black men at a rate 5.8 times higher than the most openly racist country in the world?
Statistics as of June 30, 2004 from Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2004, Tables 14; except for the race rate statistics which are calculated from Table 13 and Census Bureau population estimates. South Africa figures from Marc Mauer, Americans Behind Bars: The International Use of Incarceration. All references to Blacks and Whites are for what the Bureau of Justice Statistics and U.S. Census refer to as "non-Hispanic Blacks" and "non-Hispanic Whites".)
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