Atlanta officer who fatally shot
Rayshard Brooks has been terminated
10 most impressive words of
Malcolm x
Let's talk about Atlanta,
Wendy's, and the Constitution....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUufUvy9LZ4
Cornel West Moves Anderson
Cooper To Tears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkdRdrg3SsA
Cornel West: The Future Of
America Depends On How We Respond | The 11th Hour | MSNBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkYJeMwlsto
Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses
'White Fragility'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU
Robin DiAngelo
How to be an Antiracist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzuOlyyQlug
As big corporations say, ‘black
lives matter,’ their track records raise skepticism
The Story of The Boy Who Touched
Obama's Hair (HBO)
Pelosi wants 11 Confederate
statues removed from Capitol
What too many white people still
don’t understand about racism: Seeing racism as a relic of the past is a
problem — a deadly problem. And it is a part of why we protest.
People shot to death by U.S.
police, by race 2017-2020: Published by Statista Research Department, Jun 5,
2020
An open letter to people of
Georgia
President John F. Kennedy's
Civil Rights Address
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BEhKgoA86U
Donald Trump says he will not
watch NFL and US Soccer if players kneel
Former Temple employee wins
$850K in age-discrimination suit
America’s Newsrooms Face a
Reckoning on Race After Floyd Protests: Staffers at several media outlets are
pressing for changes on diversity, coverage and pay transparency
I’m a Black Female Scientist. On
My First Day of Work, a Colleague Threatened to Call the Cops on Me.
H.R.40 - Commission to Study and
Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
S.1083 - H.R. 40 Commission to
Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
Editor’s letter: Every year in
the United States about 1,100 people are killed by the police.
https://theweek.com/print/484218/119519/article
Police Reform Is Necessary. But
How Do We Do It?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/13/magazine/police-reform.html
CityLab University: A Timeline
of U.S. Police Protests. The latest
protests against police violence toward African Americans didn’t appear out of
nowhere. They’re rooted in generations of injustice and systemic racism.
Americans have taken to the
streets — to express a rage born of despair
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/opinion/george-floyd-protest-police.html
Stand down, Mr. President: Trump
didn’t start the fire. But he’s pouring gasoline on the flames.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/02/opinion/stand-down-mr-president/
Don’t Call in the Troops: The
feds have better tools to pursue Antifa. But state and local officials need to
restore public order.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-call-in-the-troops-11591054305
Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar:
Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge
Trump’s anti-riot speech was
terrible
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trumps-anti-riot-speech-was-terrible
America at the breaking point:
The social upheaval of the 1960s meets the political polarization and
institutional dysfunction of the present.
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/1/21275746/trump-protests-police-floyd-george-riots
Trump's Antifa Obsession Is an
Unconstitutional Distraction: The president says the US will designate antifa a
terrorist organization. Can he do that? Probably not. [LDH comment: I wonder why this
administration is so obsessed with protecting fascism, since “Antifa” means
“anti-fascism”?]
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-antifa/
We Have Seen the ‘Outside
Agitator’ and He Is Us
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/outside-agitators-george-floyd-riots-protests-police.html
All Weekend, All Over the
Country, We Saw a Police Riot: Everything is in midair and could go in any
direction.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a32731993/police-riot-george-floyd-protests/
I’m an Iraq Veteran. The Cops
Are Treating Citizens Like They’re Under Occupation. I recognize the fear cops can feel. But I’m
not seeing the discipline designed to stop soldiers from pouring gasoline on a
fire.
The Minneapolis Police Chief
Promised Change. He Got a Disaster. The
department had successfully implemented greater transparency and
accountability, but the latest crisis reveals more challenges
Trump Killed Obama’s Police
Reforms. Now He’s Getting What He Asked For.
Justice Is About More Than the
Killing of George Floyd: Police must take collective responsibility for the
failings within their ranks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/opinion/george-floyd-police-protests.html
Louisville demanded justice
after police fatally shot Breonna Taylor. Instead, it lost another black life
'They died in the exact same
way': George Floyd's killing puts spotlight on similar cases around the world
Killer Mike gives an emotional
speech: “I’m tired of seeing black men die”
The Supreme Court turned away several cases seeking to
rein in police violence: It looks like qualified immunity is here to stay.
Supreme Court won't consider limiting police immunity
from civil lawsuits
PIERS MORGAN: He failed to
protect America from Covid-19 now a cowardly President fuels the fires and
fiddles in his bunker as America burns with rage at George Floyd’s despicable
murder by police – shame on you, Mr Trump
Piers Morgan rages at lawyer for
one of four Minneapolis cops charged with George Floyd's murder and tells him:
'I would have said this guy is dying and I'm not going to be part of this'
Quelling protests with troops
self-contradictory for US: Global Times editorial
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1190337.shtml
I once passed a counterfeit
note, just like George Floyd, but no one tried to squeeze the life out of me
Da 5 Bloods – Movie by Spike Lee
https://theweek.com/print/484218/119683/da-5-bloods
Is the economic recovery doomed
to take a decade?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/03/is-economic-recovery-doomed-take-decade/
A letter to Roy. He’s the black guy
in my pictures.
Senate Republicans’ narrow new
police reform bill, explained: It overlaps some with Democrats’ proposal — but
is much more focused on data collection.
California inmate who died in
restraints pleaded for help
DOJ sets new execution dates set
for federal inmates on death row
Remembering the Groundbreaking Life of the First Black
Astronaut: Robert Lawrence Jr.’s accomplishments are finally being recognized.
Trump says Obama didn't reform
policing — but he did. Then the president ditched it. Fact check: A look at the false claim that
the previous administration was nowhere on an issue roiling the nation then and
now.
McConnell rejects calls to
'scrub out' Confederate statues from Capitol: “What I do think is clearly a
bridge too far is this nonsense that we need to airbrush the Capitol," he
says.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/16/mcconnell-confederate-statues-capitol-323037
Let's talk about bias in today's
discussions....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVlE0fu7E54
Let's talk about Lincoln,
slavery, the Civil War, and cornerstones....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_34p9UwjZ4
Let's talk about police work
stoppages, call outs, and "blue flu"....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2D85BrFGpw
The Fragility of Progress: Clint
Smith and Robert Reich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ50QAkKyxg
Capitalism Hits Home: George
Floyd and the Eruption of American Rage - Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xYwkkg4brg
‘They are babies!’ Bystanders
plead with Georgia officers as they hold 5 black children at gunpoint
Former Air Force lawyer blasts
‘ridiculous’ two-month effort to investigate racial problems in the service
The ‘Pedestrian’ Who Became One
of America’s First Black Sports Stars
In 1880, Frank Hart wowed
audiences at New York’s Madison Square Garden by walking 565 miles in six days.
Facebook removes Trump ads with
symbol once used by Nazis to designate political prisoners
Facebook removes Trump campaign
ads with symbol once used by Nazis to designate political prisoners
Anti-LGBT+ evangelist Franklin
Graham says the right to fire people for being LGBT+ is a ‘freedom our nation
was founded on’
Houston Protesters Begin to Fall
Ill With Coronavirus After Marching for George Floyd
Former Atlanta Police Officer
Who Shot Rayshard Brooks Charged with Murder
Virginia man filmed pointing
rifle at black motorcyclists: report
Ramsey County sheriff's
correctional officer uses force on a restrained inmate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4dNFxconYw
Demands of Poor People’s
Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/about/our-demands/
Shooting leaves one dead in
Seattle's protest zone
Celebrating Juneteenth, Labor
Finds Its Voice for Racial Justice
SEE IT: Man blocks door of
Brooklyn coffee shop demanding worker remove ‘Black Lives Matter’ sign
Buffalo officials ask state to
probe firing of Black officer who stopped white colleague's chokehold: "Now
with so much attention being on the present and what some officers have done
negatively, it is very difficult for some people to move forward if we have not
repaired the past," the city council president said.
Who Speaks for Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W58N7HrcdgU
H.E.R. - I Can't Breathe
(Official Video)
GOP Candidate Says Black
Democratic Opponent Is ‘Not For All Virginians’: Republican state Sen. Amanda
Chase cited state Sen. Jennifer McClellan’s membership in the Virginia Black
Legislative Caucus as proof of her divisiveness.
NYPD cops encouraged to ‘strike’
on July 4 to give city its ‘independence’
Let's talk about a lesson from
the University of Florida for all of us....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN1m734i8ec
Let's talk about Gil Scott-Heron
and it being televised....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gy4BFvaUA
Editor’s letter from The Week
https://theweek.com/print/484219/119859/editors-letter
Albany bans use of police
chokeholds, orders other reforms: Council asked Mayor Kathy Sheehan to issue
executive order
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Albany-bans-use-of-police-chokeholds-orders-15324972.php
The dirty secret behind
qualified immunity for police: We should stop indemnifying police officers with
taxpayer money and instead require them to carry mandatory individual liability
insurance
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/10/opinion/dirty-secret-behind-qualified-immunity-police/
The Police Are Rioting. We Need
to Talk About It. It is an attack on
civil society and democratic accountability
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/opinion/sunday/police-riots.html
To Overturn Trump, We Need to
Overturn White Supremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-protests-white-supremacy.html
Defund the police? Here's what
that really means.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/07/defund-police-heres-what-that-really-means/
What Does It Mean to Be a “Good
Cop”? Reforms that target “bad apples”
are missing the point.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/good-police-bad-apples.html
Peaceful protests are changing
minds: Shows of solidarity for George Floyd have the power to lead to needed
systemic reforms.
https://www.startribune.com/peaceful-protests-are-changing-minds/571115362/
Op-Ed: Trump can follow Nixon’s
fear-driven playbook. But history says it won’t work in 2020
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-07/donald-trump-law-order-nixon-strategy-1968
Why Most Americans Support the
Protests: Never before in the history of modern polling has the country
expressed such widespread agreement on racism’s pervasiveness in policing, and
in society at large.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/us/politics/polling-george-floyd-protests-racism.html
The Black Lives Matter protests
about George Floyd are spreading in white small-town America
Why the Security Establishment
is Revolting Against Trump Now
Trump Was Wrong to Deploy
Troops. Will the Military Push Back? An
apolitical army is central to American democracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/trump-army-insurrection-act.html
Trump’s Public-Relations Army:
Will the military allow the President to use it for political advantage?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trumps-public-relations-army
America’s top brass break with
Donald Trump: The president’s threat to send the troops into American cities
alarms commanders
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/06/07/americas-top-brass-break-with-donald-trump
Ahmaud Arbery’s mom to Muir: ‘We
can make a change if we stand together’
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/ahmaud-arberys-mom-muir-make-change-stand-71164353
How 2 Lives Collided in Central
Park, Rattling the Nation
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/nyregion/central-park-amy-cooper-christian-racism.html
Michael Jordan pledged $100
million to improve social justice
I’m sick and tired of systemic
racism. Think about it: Racism starts
with 1 millimeter of skin, writes a USF vice president.
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2020/06/04/im-sick-and-tired-of-systemic-racism-column/
A Trump-loving security guard
just gunned down an unarmed black man in Tulsa before Trump's rally
A woman was just arrested and
dragged out of Trump's rally for wearing a 'I Can't Breathe' shirt (VIDEO)
The racism that killed George
Floyd was built in Britain: This is not just ‘horrible stuff that happens in
America’. Black people know we need to dismantle the same system here
When police attack news crews, I
fear something is broken in America
Opinion: Neil Mackay: Why
American racism demands Scotland reflects on its own shameful past of white
supremacy
Opinion: Neil Mackay: It's time
to stand up for journalism
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18501211.neil-mackay-time-stand-journalism/
Public health pits covid against
protest
The Protesters Deserve the Truth
About the Coronavirus: Public-health experts should strive to provide a neutral
accounting of risk.
What if there were no George
Floyd video? Even when racism doesn’t go
viral, it is still deadly.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/opinion/sunday/george-floyd-structural-racism.html
Leonard Pitts: We don’t have a
few bad apples. We have a rotten tree.
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/06/04/leonard-pitts-we-dont/
The partisan chasm over
'systemic racism' is on full display
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/politics/2020-election-racism-partisan-view/index.html
Bakari Sellers' Invisible Black
America
https://www.theroot.com/bakari-sellers-invisible-black-america-1843526958
Interview With The Author Of 'My
Vanishing Country'
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/31/866426156/interview-with-the-author-of-my-vanishing-country
Austin anti-police brutality protests
unleash violence ?
Lawsuit alleges Minnesota jail
only allowed white officers to guard Derek Chauvin
Bureau Of Prisons Approves
Humanist Chaplains
Alaska School Board Removes
Classic Books
Israeli Court Says Printing Shop
Can’t Discriminate
Nigerian Humanist Imprisoned For
Criticizing Islam
‘State-sanctioned violence’: US
police fail to meet basic human rights standards. Report finds not one police department in the
20 largest American cities are compliant with international rights laws
What happens When Black Cop
Gets pulled Over by Police
Struggle Theater: Don’t Let
Theatrics Shroud the Reality of Systemic Oppression. America’s power brokers are hoping murals,
kente cloth, and a series of half-baked legislative reforms will appease activists
into giving up the fight for real change.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/black-lives-matter-dont-let-theatrics-undermine-police-reform/268605/
How Red Food and Drink Joined
the Juneteenth Feast: The story behind red snacks and beverages at Black
American June 19 celebrations dates back to well before slavery.
West Va. city debuts former Marine Corps Mine-Resistant
Ambush-Protected vehicle amid policing debate
Army veteran and congressional
candidate: Proposal to make Juneteenth federal holiday 'a step in the right
direction'
There are certain moments in US
history when Confederate monuments go up
https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/us/confederate-monuments-backlash-chart-trnd/index.html
A Robert E. Lee Statue and the
Legacy of White Supremacy
https://eji.org/news/robert-e-lee-statue-and-the-legacy-of-white-supremacy/
Why Are NYPD Cruisers Playing
the Ice Cream Truck Jingle? The melody
occupies a niche space at the intersection of ice cream, entertainment, and
Black history.
African-American Civil War
Memorial, Washington, D.C.: The first memorial dedicated solely to the
African-American troops who fought for the Union.
Global protests reveal that
white supremacy is a problem everywhere: Why Black Lives Matter protests spread
across the world this year.
Idris Elba, Viola Davis and over
300 stars call on Hollywood to divest from police: A letter aimed at the
entertainment industry calls for more investment in black talent and less
glorification of police violence
MEET BRENDA E. ROBINSON,THE
FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE PILOT IN US NAVY HISTORY
2Votes
We Cannot Stay Silent About George Floyd | Patriot Act
Digital Exclusive | Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_FE78X-qdY
The first U.S. general to call Trump a bigot
Lawyer who spat on Black teen at
George Floyd protest charged with hate crime and felony
Missouri GOP candidate claims
George Floyd died in 2016 — and video showing him choked was a ‘deep fake’
Malcolm X Breaks Down Freedom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSSoDYcCMtE
Let's talk about a police reform
bill blocked by Senate Dems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2AnEd-ky9k
Let's talk about Trump, flags,
and fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhyuXhJ5WNM
Facing Down Bigotry — and a
Pandemic: Against harassment and bigotry, Asian-American officials are finding
ways to care for their communities through this crisis.
https://www.populist.com/26.11.li.html
Jesse Jackson: Remembering Brown
v. Board of Education
https://tribunecontentagency.com/article/jesse-jackson-remembering-brown-v-board-of-education/
Is There Enough God for
Everybody?
https://www.populist.com/26.11.seggel.html
Online Hate and Harassment
Report: The American Experience 2020
Philadelphia Man Among Three
Killed in UK Stabbing Attack
Myths About Confederate
Monuments | NowThis
BLUE FLU
Enough is Enough Teach-in Series
| Privilege vs. Injustice in 2020: Police Reform
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qVvw_Gjkw0&feature=youtu.be
2 men rescue stranger from
burning home in Marion
https://cbs4indy.com/news/2-men-rescue-stranger-from-burning-home-in-marion/
Richard Rothstein on legal
segregation in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IevTFx_WMQ
Richard Rothstein - "The
Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated
America"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKsDq6DOOdY&t=39s
DC Activates 400 National Guard
Troops to Protect Monuments in Washington
Former Miramar Marines, Sailor
Plead Guilty in $65 Million Tricare Fraud Case
Wilmington, N.C., police
officers fired for racist talk, suggesting race war
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/25/wilmington-racist-police-recording/
U.S. Marshals told to prepare to
help protect monuments nationwide as Trump targets people who vandalize
structures during protests
The Status of Black History in
U.S. Schools and Society
https://www.socialstudies.org/system/files/publications/articles/se_810117014.pdf
African American history you
probably weren't taught in school
Bessie Coleman
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flygirls-bessie-coleman/
What you didn't know about
King's 'Dream' speech
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/12/march-on-washington-king-speech/2641841/
Tulsa's 'Black Wall Street'
Flourished as a Self-Contained Hub in Early 1900s: Greenwood Avenue featured
luxury shops, restaurants, movie theaters, a library, pool halls and
nightclubs.
https://www.history.com/news/black-wall-street-tulsa-race-massacre
BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2019: GPS
mathematician Gladys West helped change the military and the lives of everyday
people
Who Was Katherine Johnson?
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/who-was-katherine-johnson-5-8
How historically black colleges
helped rescue Jewish refugees
Ten Little Known Black History
Facts
http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/10-black-history-little-known-facts/
How an African Slave in Boston
Helped Save Generations from Smallpox: In the early 1700s, Onesimus shared a
revolutionary way to prevent smallpox.
https://www.history.com/news/smallpox-vaccine-onesimus-slave-cotton-mather
The origins of inoculation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3407399/
The first Black-owned car
company was C. R. Patterson and Sons: Charles Patterson freed himself from
slavery and built C.R. Patterson and Sons from the ground up
A lying undercover agent
arrested 46 people, most of them black, on drug charges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3r4999Z4a8
Wilmington Massacre of 1898
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLDi8PoegDk
Officers involved in Elijah
McClain's death taken off street duty 'in an effort to protect' them
Let's talk about the term
"Dixie"....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2s7brvyYa8
Let's talk about history,
culture, and moving America forward....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSLhJpj0gXs
Black Lives Matter Leader Is Now
on Growing List of People Trump Has Accused of a Crime Punishable by Death
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
agrees to consider Bill Cosby’s bid to overturn his sex-assault conviction
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