Huffpost Black Voices – Spoken Edition

President Donald Trump’s attack on black athletes continued Monday morning as he criticized Oakland Raiders player Marshawn Lynch for sitting during“The Star-Spangled Banner” and then standing for Mexico’s national anthem. The Raiders played the New England Patriots on Sunday in Mexico City. After pre-game photos of Lynch went viral,Trump suggested on Twitter that the running back be suspended the next time he sits for the U.S. anthem.

Reid, one of the first to join his then-teammate Colin Kaepernick in kneeling during the national anthem last year,cited the Bible to make his point. “I do see some hypocrisy with the people that call themselves Christians,” Reid, 25, told The Associated Press in an interview released Monday.

A Louisiana man who was wrongfully convicted of rape more than four decades ago will finally get to walk free on Wednesday. Wilbert Jones was 19 when he was arrested on suspicion that he kidnapped a nurse at gunpoint and raped her in 1971, The Associated Press reports.

For any white person who still doesn’t get why they shouldn’t ever say the N-word, even if it’s just rapping along to a hip-hop song, Ta-Nehisi Coates has a straight-forward explanation.

A group of high school students in Sewell, New Jersey have reportedly been reprimanded for wearing Confederate flag shirts and harassing black students with racial slurs. During the Gloucester County Institute of Technology’s Spirit Week, which began on November 1, several students decided to hold a silent protest on what was scheduled to be “America Day” at the school.

Google just took a step to help promote more diversity in STEM. On October 27, the tech giant announced a $1 million grant to The Hidden Genius Project, an organization working to increase the representation of young black males in the industry. The Oakland-based group mentors black boys and equips them with the skills they need to help shift perceptions of computer scientists and inspire future technologists.

Completing the New York City Marathon is an accomplishment in and of itself. But two Sikh runners at this year’s race decided to dedicate this personal milestone to a bigger cause ― raising awareness about the fight for racial justice.

Mallory, who started her activist work as a teen, spoke about the importance of centering not just the convention ― aptly themed “Reclaiming Our Time” in honor of Rep.Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) ― around women of color, but activism, period.

A cafe in Brooklyn’s Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood is being accused of racial discrimination in handing out candy on Halloween. The Strand Cafe allegedly refused to give sweets to black trick-or-treaters, only to give treats to white kids a few minutes later.

Hartford police arrested Brianna Rae Brochu on Saturday after they say she admitted to committing a series of vile acts againstChennel “Jazzy” Rowe in order to get Rowe to move out of the dorm they shared at the University of Hartford. Police said Brochu confessed to licking Rowe’s dining utensils and smearing menstrual blood on her backpack, according to the Hartford Courant.

In the wake of their team’s owner referring to them as “inmates,” nearly every member of the Houston Texans took a knee during Sunday’s pre-game national anthem. Save but a handful players,the Texans participated in a stunning display of unity ahead of their game against the Seattle Seahawks at CenturyLink Field in Washington. ESPN estimates that approximately 10 of the 50-plus-member team remained standing.

Two monuments honoring historical African American figures were stolen from an Arkansas town just days after its first black mayor took office, police said, prompting concerns that the theft was race-related. The historical markers were snatched last month from a park in Stamps, a few days after Mayor Brenda Davis ― the town’s first black mayor ― took office.

Kellogg Co.is reworking the artwork on Corn Pops cereal boxes following an allegation of racism. Marvel Comics writer Saladin Ahmed used Twitter on Tuesday to accuse the cereal company of “teaching kids racism” with an illustration on Corn Pops packaging. The picture in question shows multiple yellow Corn Pops charactershaving fun at a shopping mall. The only darker-colored character appears working, as a janitor.

“The Daily Show” is here with your annual reminder that blackface is a really stupid and racist way to mark Halloween. Correspondent Roy Wood Jr. dressed as a vampire to explain how the concept of white people applying black makeup to mark the spooky occasion (even in a non-intentionally offensive manner) was still completely wrong. “Every year, somehow, there are people who put on costumes that are about 200 years too late,” he said on Thursday’s broadcast.

“We’ve been just busy advocating and being on the front lines for the families that are losing their children,” Martin told HuffPost, noting how his son’s death galvanized the country and helped ignite the Black Lives Matter movement. “I think part of me wants to say, ‘OK, let me step back and take care of myself,’ but then you turn on the TV and it’s something else happening to our children.

This is the second episode in the HuffPost podcast series “I’m Still Here” that visits communities whose tales of adversity have put them on the map and explores what “survival” in America really looks like. In this episode “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back,” host Zeba Blay travels to St. Louis and Ferguson to talk with the activists and organizers still fighting for equality.

The letter concerned DeJonker’sAfrican-American nanny,24-year-old Ferrai Pickett, who has worked for the family since 2014, according to WGN-TV in Chicago. Pickett hasn’t read the entire letter herself. Although she has experienced racism before,she admits being shocked to be the subject of such a letter. “This is my first experience of racism on the job and in this neighborhood,” she told HuffPost. “It’s a quiet, diverse neighborhood.

ESPN’s Jemele Hill returned to her hosting duties Monday night, two weeks after the network suspended her over political social media posts it says violated company policy. She briefly addressed her absence at the start of her 6 p.m. “SportsCenter” show. “I love you,” Hill told co-host Michael Smith. “You’re my brother. Thank you for holding this down while I was gone.” Earlier on Monday, she tweeted thanks to her fans for their support.

Thousands of demonstrators were in Gainesville, Florida, on Thursday to protest a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer, but one tried to counteract the hate with a hug. The man, later identified as Randy Furniss by the Gainesville Sun, was punched by one protester in a photo that has since gone viral. But Aaron Courtney, a high school football coach in Gainesville, tried a different tactic. He went up to Furnissand tried to engage him in a more loving manner.

The British National Health Service has no time for racist Twitter trolls. Its official blood service account on Friday expertly destroyed a tweeter who posted a vile comment in response to an appeal for more black blood donors to help patients with sickle cell anemia. The inherited disease causes patients’ red blood cells to alter shape in ways that block the flow of blood and oxygen. Itdisproportionatelyaffects black people.