Ami Bera is the real deal!

When anti-choice organizations charge that the most dangerous place for a Black baby is in a Black woman’s womb, they are attacking Black women’s capacity to parent and make health care decisions. 

Written by Pamela Merritt for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

The citizens of Oakland await the Oscar Grant verdict

Solvency is not the issue on Social Security. Reforming the rules for the most vulnerable is.

A legacy of the Civil Rights movement is the struggle for rights and access without fear of violence. But those who oppose abortion rights are not fighting for anything; rather they are fighting against women’s freedom.

Written by Pamela Merritt for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

After President Obama was elected there was sweet talk of America having become a “post-racial society.” If Arizona’s new immigration law isn’t enough of a wake-up call, a new study by the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University should set off the alarm: It found that the gap in wealth between white and African-American families quadrupled over the last generation. Following the same families over a 23-year period beginning in 1984, researchers found that the financial assets among white families grew from a median value of $22,000 to $100,000, while the African-American families still had less than $5,000 in 2007.

Different data sets from the Federal Reserve Board’s Survey of Consumer Finance (SCF), which is collected every three years, corroborate that the black/white wealth gap grew between 2004 and 2007. A study released by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development in March found that the average single black woman under 50 had only five dollars to tap in the case of a financial emergency. According to SCF data, not only African Americans but all non-white groups had lower wealth levels than whites. Our nation is rolling backward on the track to racial equality.

Telling the truth can be divisive

Republicans want to live in the 19th century but I think most Americans see modern advances as a good thing.

Really, this man has poisoned our political discourse one too many times. Just let him go, MSNBC. Just let him go. He is an embarrassment to your network and an embarrassment to the nation.

It’s way past time.

Rachel Maddow and Brown University Africana Studies Department Chair Professor Tricia Rose examine our examination of talking about race relations in America today. The disconnect, between rhetoric and reality, is a measure of the power of myths over facts in the minds of electorates.