{"id":11125,"date":"2017-05-05T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2017\/05\/05\/this-week-in-race-movies-memoirs-and-fans-who-didnt-hit-it-out-of-the-park\/"},"modified":"2017-05-05T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T08:01:00","slug":"this-week-in-race-movies-memoirs-and-fans-who-didnt-hit-it-out-of-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/this-week-in-race-movies-memoirs-and-fans-who-didnt-hit-it-out-of-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Race: Movies, Memoirs And Fans Who Didn't Hit It Out Of The Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Clearly the players weren’t the problem on May 2, when the Orioles matched up against the Red Sox.<\/p>\n

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Not a good week for black folk seeing justice for police violence.<\/p>\n

Whether you’re a 15-year-old honor student (Jordan Edwards)<\/a><\/p>\n

Or a grown man (Alton Sterling)<\/a><\/p>\n

Sometimes, however, the moral arc of the universe does<\/em>bend toward justice<\/a>, eventually. Even if it takes time, as was the case with South Carolina officer Michael Slager, who shot Walter Scott in the back multiple times in 2015. The state’s case against him ended in a mistrial, but Slager pleaded guilty ahead of his federal trial for the violation of Scott’s civil rights.<\/p>\n

Barnard College dean Avis Hinkson tells students don’t play when you step up to receive your diploma: It’s a life-changing achievement, Hinkson wrote in The Huffington Post<\/a>\u2014especially for women of color. Hinkson refuses to downplay the importance of the moment, even though some of her students told her they don’t want to wear their mortarboards (caps): “<\/em>I wear my cap and gown because the only cap given to my grandmothers was a maid’s cap,”<\/em> Hinkson writes. And, she says, for people of color, college degrees aren’t only significant to them, but to the people and communities that sacrificed to allow them to reach this moment.<\/p>\n