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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 424

African-Americans

Peter Buxtun, a former employee of the US Public Health Service, who became known as the whistleblower responsible for ending the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. (Courtesy Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
July 18, 2024, 10:34 am
Peter Buxtun, who blew whistle on cruel US medical study on Black men, dies at 86
Born to a Jewish father, Buxtun was reminded of Nazi medical experiments when he heard US health officials withheld treatment from hundreds of syphilis patients to study effects
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
US President Joe Biden delivers a commencement address during Morehouse College's graduation ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia on May 19, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
May 19, 2024, 9:04 pm
Biden’s graduation speech goes uninterrupted after fears of anti-Israel protests
At historically Black college, president calls Israel-Hamas war ‘heartbreaking’, says he’s working for two-state solution; Morehouse school’s head cites ‘Palestinian Jew named Jesus’
By Jacob Magid and Agencies
Americans living in Israel march to the American Embassy in Tel Aviv with signs in Hebrew reading 'Americans for Equal Rights,' August 28, 1963. (AP Photo)
August 25, 2023, 6:46 pm
How Jews are joining the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington on Shabbat
About a dozen Jewish speakers will be among those addressing an estimated 75,000 people continuing the efforts that began six decades ago, and this time they include Jews of color
By Ben Sales
HBCU administrators in Jerusalem, July 12, 2023. From left - Harold Martin, Chancellor of North Carolina A&T State University; Lazar Berman, Times of Israel; Harry Williams, President and CEO, Thurgood Marshall College Fund; Colonel Alexander Conyers, President of South Carolina State University; David Wilson, President, Morgan State University; and Quinton Ross, President, Alabama State University (Times of Israel)
July 14, 2023, 11:28 am
In Israel, leaders of US Black universities laud partnership with Jewish community
Trip comes after several high-profile incidents that, to many, indicate the Black-Jewish relationship in the US needs urgent work
By Lazar Berman
People hold a sign in their car during a car parade to mark Juneteenth on Saturday, June 19, 2021, in Inglewood, California. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
June 17, 2022, 6:15 pm
On Juneteenth, US Jewish communities are reckoning with their own attitudes on race
Around the country, institutions host Shabbat and other programming aimed at educating about racism generally and also grappling with its existence in their own spaces
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Leondra Kruger, left, is sworn in as an associate justice to the California Supreme Court by Gov. Jerry Brown during an inauguration ceremony in Sacramento, California, Jan. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
January 28, 2022, 2:30 pm
Biden said he’ll nominate a Black woman to US Supreme Court. Who’s in the running?
Nine women thought to be leading candidates; potential nominees include Leondra Kruger, the daughter of a Jamaican mother and Jewish father
By Jessica Gresko and Colleen Long
World War II veteran Lawrence Brooks holds a photo of him taken in 1943, as he celebrates his 110th birthday at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, on September 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
January 5, 2022, 10:30 pm
Oldest US veteran of World War II, Lawrence N. Brooks, dies at 112
Amid segregation in US armed forces at the time, Brooks was assigned as caretaker in the Black 91st Engineer General Service Regiment, but still experienced enemy fire during war
By LEAH WILLINGHAM and Rebecca Santana
Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss (Scott Olson/Getty Images/ via JTA) and local resident Lesley Williams (Courtesy of Lesley Williams/ via JTA).
November 7, 2021, 3:20 am
The case for reparations, according to 2 Jews in the first US city to offer them
As Chicago suburb Evanston compensates some Black residents for past housing injustices, Jewish mayor Daniel Biss and local Lesley Williams disagree on whether it’s a good start
By Asaf Shalev and PHILISSA CRAMER
Then-Georgia Democratic candidates for US Senate Raphael Warnock, left, and Jon Ossoff, right, gesture toward a crowd during a campaign rally in Marietta, Georgia, November 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)
January 23, 2021, 2:54 am
Jewish Democrats see Ossoff and Warnock as a heroic new Black-Jewish duo
The incoming Georgia senators are linked by late civil rights hero John Lewis and by perceived racism from opponents, thus strengthening dormant relations between their communities
By Ron Kampeas
Abraham Flexner was called the "father" of modern medical education. (Wikimedia commons via JTA)
November 25, 2020, 9:24 pm
Jewish educator’s name removed from medical award over ‘racist and sexist views’
In 1910, Abraham Flexner wrote that Black people should be ‘sanitarians,’ rather than doctors, and should focus on preventing disease in white people
By Ben Sales
The Moorish Zionist Temple, Harlem, NY, 1929 (James Van Der Zee/The Folklore Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem via the National Library of Israel Digital Collection)
November 1, 2020, 10:10 pm
Yiddisher Black cantors from 100 years ago rediscovered thanks to rare recording
Discographer Henry Sapoznik tracks down record by international Yiddish-language performer Thomas LaRue, and slips into a rabbit hole of Black Jewish history
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Samuel L. Jackson taking part in a Benga initiation ceremony, Gabon. (AP Slave Ships Productions Ltd./Cornelia Street’s Ships Ltd.)
October 9, 2020, 10:40 pm
Samuel L. Jackson joins Israeli filmmaker in docuseries on global slave trade
In ‘Enslaved,’ now streaming in the US and from October 11 in the UK, director Simcha Jacobovici gathers an all-star team to delve into the roots of an unmemorialized genocide
By Jordan Hoffman
Racist graffiti painted on the side of the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, July 29, 2020. (Facebook)
July 29, 2020, 7:40 pm
Buffalo Soldiers museum vandalized with apparent swastika
Anti-Democratic slogan also found scrawled on the wall of Texas museum dedicated to African American soldiers
By AP
Illustration: Kveller, via JTA
July 13, 2020, 3:10 am
The Jewish real estate developer who stood up to racist US housing policies
Joseph Eichler was one of the biggest names in California’s suburban development; he used his clout to bring qualified minority home buyers to neighborhoods where they were shunned
By Lisa Keys
Illustrative: In this November 13, 2017 photo, Devante Kincade, quarterback for the Grambling's NCAA college football game college football team, listens during a criminal justice class at the university in Grambling, Louisiana (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
July 11, 2020, 4:16 am
Student leaders at historically Black US colleges join Israel advocacy effort
As part of the Sheldon Adelson-funded Maccabee Task Force, Black students spread awareness on campuses with little Jewish presence, visit Jewish state to experience it firsthand
By Cathryn J. Prince
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