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Amar'e Stoudemire, tallest, is leading an initiative to connect Jewish and African-American students at Florida International University. (Courtesy of FIU Hillel via JTA)
September 19, 2019, 8:26 am
Former NBA All-Star shooting for better black-Jewish ties
Amar’e Stoudemire, now an undergrad at Florida International University who frequents campus Hillel, sees the similarities between the suffering of African-Americans and Jews
By Josefin Dolsten
A promotional image for the “Black Panther” film. (Chadwick Boseman/Facebook)
February 22, 2018, 4:11 am
Why ‘Black Panther’ might also be a milestone in black-Jewish relations
Breaking box office records as well as Hollywood assumptions about race, the Marvel character created by two white Jews offers a unique opportunity for healing
By Gabe Friedman
Reuven H. Taff
January 18, 2017, 3:04 pm
Reuven H. Taff
The day John Lewis came to my shul
The congressman’s plan to avoid Trump’s inauguration stems from a morality forged battling violent discrimination
File: In this Aug. 19, 2002, file photo, Carmel Cato, center, reaches out to embrace Norman Rosenbaum, right, as they walk together in a show of unity into a New York restaurant on the 11th anniversary of the 1991 Crown Heights riots sparked by the deaths of Cato's 7-year-old son Gavin Cato and the murder of Rosenbaum's brother Yankel, an Australian doctoral student. On Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016, residents of the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn mark the 25th anniversary of the riot. (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser, File)
August 22, 2016, 4:13 am
Brooklyn residents remember dark chapter of Crown Heights race riot
Dozens gather to celebrate improvement in relations between Jews, African-Americans 25 years after deaths sparked violence
By MICHAEL BALSAMO
Taj Patterson was allegedly beaten by a group of Hasidic Jews, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2013. (YouTube screen capture)
June 28, 2016, 7:05 pm
Black beating victim sues NYC, Orthodox security patrol
Taj Patterson, 25, alleges that 2013 assault was a result of de facto outsourcing of police functions to Shomrim group
By JTA
Point Breeze Avenue street sign at Point Breeze northern terminus at Federal Street and 20th Street. (Wikipedia/Rgs25/CC BY-SA 3.0)
February 26, 2016, 4:19 am
Philly activists yell anti-Semitic comments at Jewish developers
Contentious meeting over urban development plans in south Philadelphia neighborhood elicits angry epithets
By JTA
Miriam Brosseau
September 9, 2015, 3:17 pm
Miriam Brosseau
Talking race at the High Holidays
This time of spiritual reckoning offers a chance for communities to affirm that Jewish Black Lives Matter too
Miriam Sternoff and O'Neal McKnight are planning a wedding in Lifetime Network's reality series, 'Kosher Soul.' (Courtesy Lifetime Network)
February 25, 2015, 3:00 pm
Reality TV show follows black-Jewish couple to the chuppah
Lifetime’s new series ‘Kosher Soul,’ debuting Wednesday, plays fast and loose with cultural stereotypes
By Jordan Hoffman
Illustrative: Leaders in a Vietnam war protest stand in silent prayer in Arlington National Cemetery, February 6, 1968, including Rabbi Abraham Heschel, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges)
January 18, 2015, 10:03 pm
Jews recall MLK’s legacy, ‘from Ferguson to Palestine’
King’s staunch Zionism and battle against anti-Semitism in the black community take back-seat in divided Jewish community
By Matt Lebovic
President Shimon Peres meets with Marcia Fudge, chair of the US Congressional Black Caucus, at the president's residence in Jerusalem, February 18, 2014. (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)
February 21, 2014, 4:15 am
From small-town mayor to pro-Israel congresswoman
A pro-Israel group brought Marcia Fudge to Israel when she was still the mayor of Warrensville Heights, Ohio. Today she heads the Congressional Black Caucus
By Raphael Ahren
Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, at night. (photo credit: Screen capture, NBC News)
December 10, 2013, 11:37 pm
Black student says Hassidic men assaulted him in Brooklyn
22-year-old gay fashion student Taj Patterson tells police he was beaten by ultra-Orthodox men shouting anti-gay slurs
By TOI staff
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