When they say the fight against
racism starts at home, they aren’t lying: My mom loved me. And I loved her. But
that didn’t stop racism from living between us.
Let's talk about Ben Shapiro
and the present tense....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EqHoPqfy1g
Facing bleak November,
Republicans look to stoke BLM backlash: The battle to define the movement comes
as the president and fellow GOP candidates try to win back suburban voters.
US Border Patrol agent arrested
and charged with trafficking over 350,000 pills believed to be fentanyl
UNLEASHING THE POWER OF POOR AND
LOW-INCOME AMERICANS : CHANGING THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
https://www.breachrepairers.org/blogs/unleashing-the-power
‘Kill Them All’: Colorado
Springs Officer Keith Wrede Used Fake Name To Post Comments About Protesters
WARNING SIGNS: It can be
difficult to acknowledge that you or someone you care about is in an abusive
relationship. Domestic violence does not always look the same, but there are
some warning signs that may indicate you are in an abusive relationship.
CBS News Special: "Justice
for All". As protests continue to
grip the nation following the death of George Floyd, "CBS This
Morning" co-host Gayle King anchors "Justice for All," a one-hour
primetime special that explores how this tragic confrontation ignited a
movement demanding an end to the painful history of systemic racism and
brutality in police departments across the country. Correction: Robin DiAngelo
is an Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Please note: This is a revised version of the program that aired on 6/9/20.
‘It’s not the Seattle I want to
live in’: Passion and deep feelings at rally to support police
State of Black America; Trump
attacks USPS; Mail sorting machines removed; Birthers attack Harris
Could Kamala Harris’s Presence
on the Ticket Help Usher in a Third Reconstruction? In this moment a radical reimagining of
America is needed, and possible, but only if the voices of those struggling in
the streets are heard.
Fact Check: Roland Rumbles With
Black Repub Over Misleading Claim Biden Hurled N-Words At Hearing
Defeat Trump By Tweet: New Tool
Donates $ To Stop #45's Reelection Every Time He Tweets
Homicide Spike Hits Most Large
U.S. Cities: Journal analysis shows double-digit increases in 36 of 50 biggest
cities amid pandemic, though other types of violent crime fell
Obama hails John Lewis as
founding father of ‘fuller, better’ US in eulogy: Former president called for
Americans to fight Trump’s effort to undermine the right to vote in eulogy at
congressman’s funeral
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/30/barack-obama-john-lewis-eulogy-funeral
This Was a Different Barack
Obama. A Stick-Swinging, Old-Testament Obama.
Direct, forceful, and utterly uncompromising, the former president took
on the moral chaos roiling America in the true spirit of John Lewis.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a33473426/barack-obama-john-lewis-eulogy/
Obama emerges as Biden’s hatchet
man
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/obama-emerges-as-bidens-hatchet-man
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's
Memoir
Trethewey’s ‘Memorial Drive’ a
beautiful, devastating memoir
‘Memorial Drive’ Powerfully
Recalls a Southern Childhood and a Mother’s Murder
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/books/review-memorial-drive-memoir-natasha-trethewey.html
Living With Woundedness
https://aas.princeton.edu/news/living-woundedness
'Serial' team's new podcast
spotlights the anti-racist work that needs to be done
https://mashable.com/article/nice-white-parents-serial-podcast-review/
Armed civilian groups surge into
local politics in the Pacific Northwest
Donald Trump Jr. and Ted Cruz
shared Russian misinformation about Black Lives Matter protesters burning
Bibles
Michigan county official resigns
after doubling down on N-word, says he's not racist
Portland Protests Persist as Some
Bring Flashes of Violence
https://www.voanews.com/usa/race-america/portland-protests-persist-some-bring-flashes-violence
Who Opposes Defunding the NYPD?
These Black Lawmakers
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/nyregion/defund-police-nyc-council.html
Does Anyone Really Want to
Defund the Police? Radical calls to
abolish law enforcement won’t lead to anything good—and most Americans seem to
know it.
https://www.city-journal.org/defunding-police-not-the-answer
Americans are losing trust in
media and it's easy to see why
Distrust of the Minneapolis
Police, and Also the Effort to Defund Them: Residents on Minneapolis’s North
Side, which has a majority Black population, have mixed opinions on the City
Council’s effort to significantly reduce the police force.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/us/minneapolis-defund-police.html
Isabel Wilkerson Talks About
'Caste'
“I am reading a brilliant book
called Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, which should
be required reading for anyone who wants to make sense of the BlackLivesMatter
movement and challenge themselves (and their own organization) to respond
appropriately. It argues that caste—not skin color—is the best way to make
sense of the horrors of racism in America, since even well-meaning people
accept caste structures implicitly in their lives, unless challenged.”
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/we-know-what-you-are-reading-this-summer/gillian-tett
Running deeper than race:
America’s caste system
Caste Offers a New Word for
Injustice in America, Not a New Way of Thinking
Far-right demonstrators,
counter-protesters and police clash in multiple states
Amid shock of Chief Carmen
Best’s departure, black Seattleites weigh city’s moves on police defunding
74% of Americans view George
Floyd's death as an underlying racial injustice problem: POLL
This is a significant shift from
a similar question asked just six years ago.
Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network
Providers in PA: Find a Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network program by name or find
the program office serving your county using the search box. You can also
scroll through all of the PLAN program offices in Pennsylvania.
Letters From the August 10/17,
2020, Issue: Demilitarize the police… The case for public banks… Wrestlemania…
A perverse legacy… Spinning their wheels…
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/letters-from-the-august-10-17-2020-issue/
Is Our Generation Ready to Take
Up the Torch That John Lewis Lit? As
legends like Lewis pass away, I wonder whether we’re prepared to become the new
elders.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/john-lewis-elders/
John Lewis Never Stopped Bending
the Arc Toward Justice: In the last days of his life, the civil rights icon
hailed Black Lives Matter protesters: “They’re going to help redeem the soul of
America.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/john-lewis-obit/
No Matter Who Biden Chooses as
VP, It Will Be a Bittersweet Win for Women: By the end of Biden’s VP vetting,
it seemed the 11th commandment of women’s politics is “Thou shalt never be just
right.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/suffrage-female-vice-president/
The NYPD Took a Step Toward
Fascism When It Kidnapped Nikki Stone: Then they’ll come for you.
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/nypd-protest-kidnap/
Representative Barbara Lee: ‘The
Public Is With Us’. In an exclusive
interview with The Nation, the representative talks about cutting the defense
budget, what Covid-19 has revealed about systemic racism, and her mentor
Shirley Chisholm.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/barbara-lee-pentagon-covid/
Keeping Hope Alive: Sermons and
Speeches of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
https://www.amazon.com/Keeping-Hope-Alive-Sermons-Speeches/dp/1626983593
With His New Book, Rev. Jesse
Jackson Is 'Keeping Hope Alive'
Trump Supports Housing Segregation—and So Do a Lot of
White Liberals: The vast Black-white disparities in housing are the foundation
of America’s systemic racial inequalities, and white folks of all political
stripes are loath to upset the status quo.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-housing-segregation/
A Lethal Traffic Stop in Georgia: A miniature army was
dispatched to deal with one man. Only the police know what really happened.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/georgia-police-killing-gambian/
In the Fire of Activism: Julian
Bond’s life in politics and protest.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/julian-bond-race-man-review/
Portraits of a Pandemic: Drawing
the nation.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/portraits-pandemic-steve-brodner/
‘The 24th’ review: A sobering
history lesson for today
Over 50 current, former law
enforcement professionals sign letter urging Congress to decriminalize
marijuana
Fear of a Black Uprising:
Confronting the white pathologies that shape racist policing
https://newrepublic.com/article/158725/fear-black-uprising-confronting-racist-policing
The Douglass Republic: How
today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist
leader
The AFL-CIO’s Untenable Stance
on Cops: A power struggle over police unions rattles the heart of the American
labor movement.
https://newrepublic.com/article/158712/afl-cio-police-unions-labor-movement-power-struggle-cops
Corporate America’s Hollow
Denunciations of Systemic Racism: By invoking a nebulous “system,” companies
manage to say as little as possible—and do even less.
https://newrepublic.com/article/158707/corporate-americas-hollow-denunciations-systemic-racism
The Secret History of America’s
Worthless Confederate Monuments: They’re cheap, mass produced, and celebrate
the Jim Crow South. So why do conservatives persist in calling them art?
https://newrepublic.com/article/158715/secret-history-americas-worthless-confederate-monuments
The Right’s Increasingly
Unhinged Fight Against Black Lives Matter: As the movement’s popularity surges,
the conservative media insists that it is hell-bent on destroying the American
way of life.
https://newrepublic.com/article/158669/rights-increasingly-unhinged-fight-black-lives-matter
William Faulkner’s Southern
Guilt: In disastrous interviews and his most famous novels, he struggled to
reckon with racism and white supremacy.
Rural Black Lives Matter: After
Travon Brown found a cross burning in his yard, he organized a Black Lives
Matter march in the rural town of Marion, Va., where hundreds of angry
counter-protestors were ready and waiting.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/rural-black-lives-matter-protests-virginia
'The Killing Was Really Cut and
Dry' George Floyd's murder sparks a worldwide campaign to end policing as we
know it.
https://progressive.org/magazine/the-killing-was-really-cut-and-dry-gilmore/
It’s Not Just the Cops: The
calls for real transformation of policing are urgent and needed, but not
enough. Transformation can start, but not end, there.
https://progressive.org/magazine/not-just-the-cops-strang/
Whose Justice System Is It
Anyway? Participatory defense helps
ordinary citizens have a greater say in court outcomes.
https://progressive.org/magazine/whose-justice-system-is-it-anyway-law/
Coming Into a Black Woman’s
Anger
https://beltmag.com/black-woman-anger-audre-lorde-minnesota-nice/
On the Line: This Is a
Revolution. For three nights in Madison,
Wisconsin, hundreds of young Black Lives Matter activists were met with tear
gas, pepper spray, and projectiles from police.
https://progressive.org/magazine/on-the-line-this-is-a-revolution/
Smoking Gun: Police Bias, in
Black and White: Recent police murders have drawn renewed attention to police
brutality and racist violence.
https://progressive.org/magazine/smoking-gun-police-bias/
Comment: The Case for
Nonviolence. Most protests against
police brutality have been peaceful, but the few acts of violence that have
occurred are worthy of our consideration.
https://progressive.org/magazine/the-case-for-nonviolence-lueders/
Nashville police chief orders
investigation after officers knock in innocent family's door
There’s little evidence showing
which police reforms work: Rapid research is needed to find out what efforts
are most effective
How the U.S. census has measured
race over 230 years: The 2020 census faces the same challenges as previous
counts
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/census-2020-race-history
Federal Investigation Finds
Hospital Violated Patients’ Rights by Profiling, Separating Native Mothers and
Newborns: It remains unclear just how many newborns were separated from their
mothers as a result of the policies. Lovelace Women’s Hospital did not admit to
any wrongdoing but reported that the practice has been halted.
African Americans in Erie
County: A Trail of Shared Heritage
https://www.goerie.com/news/20200817/african-americans-in-erie-county-trail-of-shared-heritage
Midland Cemetery, home to graves
of Black Civil War veterans, is now owned by group that is restoring it
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