Westside Gazette Archives - Page 2 of 277

Democrats Hold Hearing on White Supremacy

June 20, 2019 Carma Henry 0

The House Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties hearing, titled “Confronting White Supremacy: Adequacy of the Federal Response,” reportedly is the latest effort by Democrats to spotlight ways they say the Trump administration has systematically cut back on resources used to address threats from domestic extremists even as the FBI has reported a 30 percent to 40 percent rise in domestic terrorism cases just since October. […]

Police Officers Get Exposed for Making Racist Social Media Posts, So Cities Decide to Investigate

June 13, 2019 Carma Henry 0

Police officers and departments across the nation have been accused of having implicit bias against and racist views about Black people for a long time. The accusations are not new, but they are often refuted by those accused. […]

Growing the Voices of Our Future

June 13, 2019 Carma Henry 0

The Westside Gazette Newspaper is honored to feature these contributions made by local students. […]

The Banner Man

June 13, 2019 Carma Henry 0

The Gantt Report By Lucius Gantt Almost every day someone is “banned” from a social media site. Black religious leaders, Black community activists and even some Black journalists are prohibited from different web sites, […]

Study Finds Most of the World Failing at Gender Equality

June 13, 2019 Carma Henry 0

“This report should serve as a wakeup call to the world. We won’t meet the SDGs with 40% of girls and women living in countries that are failing on gender equality,” said Melinda Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. […]

NNPA Observes Black Music Month, National Homeownership and Juneteenth

June 13, 2019 Carma Henry 0

According to the history of Juneteenth, on June 19th, 1865 and more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which became official on Jan. 1, 1863, Union soldiers led by Major General Gordon Granger landed at Galveston, Texas, with news that the war had ended and slaves were now free. […]

U.S. Attempt to Erase Harriet Tubman

June 12, 2019 Carma Henry 0

In the fantasy of white supremacy, the FBI spent millions in time and treasure to plant false evidence of Communist influence on Martin Luther King — while in reality, Russians today are using the racial tension in American to incite violence and paralyze our society, while they work towards global dominance. […]

The race war in America

June 12, 2019 Carma Henry 0

The race war in America […]

The Black Church: Political and Social Links

June 12, 2019 Carma Henry 0

Political and Social Links […]

A Slap in the Face of Justice

June 6, 2019 Carma Henry 0

On the day 44-year-old Pamela Turner was laid to rest, the officer who fatally killed her, Baytown Police Officer Juan Delacruz, was allowed to return to work after being placed on a mandatory three-day administrative leave, as if nothing ever happened. […]