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    Choosing the right tunes for a wedding is either the most fun part of wedding planning–or the worst. Everyone knows the classics like “Wonderful Tonight” and “Today I Met the Boy I’m Gonna Marry,” but do they really deserve a place on the playlist? Sometimes there’s a thin line between classic and overplayed. Wedding planning [...]
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    Dozens of San Diego area high school students have been suspended and banned from prom or commencement because of a twerking video according to one parent. The video, created recently by students in a media class at Scripps Ranch High School, shows teenaged girls twerking while doing handstands to a YG song. Thirty-two students danced [...]

Infographic: Five Myths About Crime in Black America—and the Statistical Truths

By on July 21, 2012 in Opinion

In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death, we’ve seen a lot of discussion of the larger societal issues that play into how and when people are perceived as criminals. There were hoodies, there were marches, and there were frank talks from parent to child about how to minimize the danger of being a young person of color. On the other side, there were justifications of George Zimmerman’s actions: a smear campaign against Martin’s character, and plenty of writers explaining that statistically, blacks are simply more dangerous to be around.

That framing ignores the realities behind the numbers. Here are five myths about crime and people of color.

—Shani O. Hilton

Via-Colorlines.com

  • Gary Dauphin

    Your own infographics dispute some of the claims you are actually trying to make. Weak job.

  • http://twitter.com/vforcesfc Tommy DiLallo

    LOL, What a HORRIBLE Racist post from an Angry Black Person. This is what the media calls SPIN!!!! Horrible.