Tonya Mosley, an award winning journalist is a regular contributor to Al Jazeera America, the U.S. cable news channel that covers both domestic and international news. Please find out more about her on tonyamosley.com. Al Jazeera America is available around the U.S. on Comcast, Time Warner Channel, Dish Channel 215, DirecTV Channel 347 and Verizon Fios Channel 614.
Ms. Mosley was on show talking about, Black in the Whitest City, her contribution to the Al Jazeera America series Race in America.
In Black in the Whitest City, Ms. Radford examines what it’s like to be Black in Seattle, Washington. Seattle is the fastest growing big city in the United States, attributed to the city’s healthy economy – but there’s one area where the city continues to lag. According to the latest Census numbers, Seattle is getting “whiter” – in fact, it’s the fifth whitest major city in the nation. Mosley looks at what it’s like for recent black transplants to form a life in a city that is becoming homogeneous.
During our conversation, Ms. Mosley talked about:
– How she ended up in Seattle
– Seattle’s rapid growth with it the fifth Whitest major city in America with the number of minorities continuing to shrink in Seattle
– How she approached the piece
– The current environment for Blacks in Seattle and how are Blacks addressing it
– The relationship between the old guard and new guard Blacks in Seattle
– Why are Blacks leaving Seattle and where are they are going
– The importance of social media to current civil rights movement in America
– A special moment from her time in Seattle
– Her call to action for Blacks and non-Blacks in Seattle
In March 2009, President Obama signed an Executive Order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls. “The purpose of this Council is to ensure that American women and girls are treated fairly in all matters of public policy,” said President Obama. Today, Dr. Warren Farrell is leading the charge of a new proposal, to create a White House Council on Boys to Men.
Leading Women For Shared Parenting is an international child advocacy organization with but one objective: the use of a rebuttable presumption of Shared Parenting as the standard in Family Law.
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“The Chains of Black America: The Hammer Of The Police – The Hammer Of The Schools” Michael Holzman
Michael Holzman’s book, The Chains of Black America: The Hammer of the Police, The Anvil of the Schools, is a description of how two great institutions of American government—the education XE “education” and criminal justice systems—often hinder, rather than enable, the achievement of equal opportunities for the descendants of enslaved Africans. The book is about the caste status of African Americans, rather than about “people of color,” or impoverished Americans, because of the specific history of African Americans and the way in which their oppression affects others. It is perhaps not too much to say that until descent from enslaved Africans is no longer a cause for lack of equality of opportunity, the United States will never be a just society.
Each chapter, beginning with the national survey in Chapter One, includes demographic, health XE “health”, income XE “income”, wealth XE “wealth”, and economic mobility XE “mobility” data, followed by sections on the criminal justice and education XE “education” systems and concluding with attempts at modeling a more equitable society. This modeling is extended nationally in a final chapter. In addition to the national overview in Chapter One, there are chapters on eight cities: Chicago XE “Chicago”, Cleveland XE “Cleveland”, Memphis XE “Memphis”, Milwaukee XE “Milwaukee”, New Orleans XE “New Orleans”, New York City XE “New York City”, Philadelphia XE “Philadelphia”, and Rochester XE “Rochester, New York”. Each of these has a significant, highly segregated, African American population. In each, African American incarceration XE “incarceration” rates XE “incarceration rates” are many times higher than those of White, non-Hispanics, and educational outcomes are much less favorable for African American than for White, non-Hispanic, students. There are many other cities where these conditions prevail, such as Minneapolis XE “Minneapolis”, Buffalo XE “Buffalo”, Montgomery XE “Montgomery” and Miami XE “Miami”, but eight examples seem sufficient as examples of how caste is enforced in America.
Michael Holzman is the author of many books, reports, op-eds, and blogs. He is the originator of the Schott Foundation’s series of reports on Public Education and Black Males and the author of The Black Poverty Cycle and How to End it and Minority Students and Public Education. In addition to the Schott Foundation he has been an advisor to the Heinz Endowments, the Panasonic Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation, among others, and has worked on reform in school districts from Seattle to Miami.
Mr. Holzman talked about his most recent book, The Chains of Black America: The Hammer of the Police, The Anvil of the Schools on our show.
During the conversation, Mr. Holzman spoke about:
– How he came up with the title
– His belief that African Americans are subjected to a caste system due to the education and criminal justice systems
– That certain individuals are responsible for keeping the caste system in America in place
– What can African American do to change the caste system
– If Hispanic Americans have any impact on the future of Black America
– If he has hope that this criminal justice and education systems will change
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Fourty participants, aged five to fifty, were recruited from the Seattle area for the filmed experiment, staged to coincide with Black History Month.
