Thursday, April 29, 2010

Dr. Boyce Talks With Latino Studies Professor Alan Aja on What You Need to Know About Immigration

Dr. Boyce Talks With Latino Studies Professor Alan Aja on What You Need to Know About Immigration

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

Dr. Boyce Watkins Talks About "Getting Financially Naked" on ABC

Dr. Boyce Watkins Talks About "Getting Financially Naked" on ABC.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Madam Prezident: I Hate You

"The dopest poet in America," Madam Prezident, gives us a poem about love.

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


Successful Black Women Can't Find a Good Man?

Why do most of us believe that successful black women can't find a good man?

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

The Black Agenda Part 1: What does it really mean?

Should black America have a black agenda to present to President Barack Obama?

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

Boyce Watkins Discusses Open Supreme Court Seat with Rev. Al Sharpton

Boyce Watkins Discusses Open Supreme Court Seat with Rev. Al Sharpton

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Tiger Woods Cusses Out Himself

Tiger Woods Get Cussed Out By Tiger Woods

Friday, April 9, 2010

Doing The Tiger-Tiki: Cheating Black Athletes Who Got Caught

Doing The Tiger-Tiki: Cheating Black Athletes Who Got Caught

Thursday, April 8, 2010

New Nike Commercial Featuring Tiger Woods and voice of deceased Earl Woods

New Nike Commercial Featuring Tiger Woods and voice of deceased Earl Woods

Monday, April 5, 2010

Tiger Woods Press Conference Before the 2010 Masters

Tiger Woods Press Conference Before the 2010 Masters

Dr. Boyce Watkins Discusses "Public Housing" on HLN's Jane Valez Mitchell

Dr. Boyce Watkins Discusses "Public Housing" on HLN's Jane Valez Mitchell

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

incarceration rates by race graph

Gender is an important "filter" on the who goes to prison or jail:

incarceration rates by gender graph

Look at just the males by race, and the incarceration rates become even more frightening

incarceraton rates for males by race

If you look at males aged 25-29 and by race, you can see what is going on even clearer

incarceration rates for young males

Or you can make some international comparisons

International rates of incarceration graph

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".)