African Americans

Amar’e Stoudemire calls for end of anti-Semitism among African-Americans

In response to the attack at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, the former NBA star referred to African Americans as also being Semitic people who are descended from the lost tribes of Israel.

By Marcy Oster January 6, 2020 10:02 am

Commentary magazine sees a new split in the black-Jewish alliance

Some felt the magazine's "African Americans vs. American Jews" cover line was meant to stoke 50-year-old resentments.

June 15, 2018 5:49 pm

The Black Newspaper That Championed Jewish Hair

The Chicago Defender comes out of the South Side (here’s looking at you, Michelle Lavaughn Obama) and focuses on the city’s African-American population. But it also has a surprising history of covering the local Jewish community. Going back as far as 1910, a black arts critic visited a Yiddish theater in Chicago and praised the […]

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