Confronting the Surge in
Anti-Asian American Violence
Humanists in the Hood
https://thehumanist.com/magazine/summer-2021/arts_entertainment/humanists-in-the-hood
Bleak Walls, Bright Minds: In
Their Own Words
Release for America’s oldest
juvenile offender
Charlottesville Removes Robert
E. Lee Statue That Sparked A Deadly Rally
Drug Overdose and Punishing
Tragedy
Escape as Resistance for
Enslaved Women during the American Revolution
Me Too: Abuse of Power and
Managed Inequality
The South, Slavery & the
Lost Cause
https://www.alternativeradio.org/products/robi001/
Transcommunality
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/9473
The Gandhian Iceberg: A
Nonviolence Manifesto for the Age of the Great Turning
‘An incredible day’ as Lee
statue removed in Charlottesville
Community: THE STRUCTURE OF
BELONGING by PETER BLOCK
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/573412/community-by-peter-block/
Silvia Federici: The Witch Hunts
& The Transition To Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tPjRKTXwOY&list=PLqiL0zzvL-F6N8XDSFWGjvAOVJ7ckCyHi&index=1
How historians demolish myths
and create new ways to think | Interview with Dr. Dipesh Chakrabarty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO07Kgh6Hso&list=PLqiL0zzvL-F6N8XDSFWGjvAOVJ7ckCyHi&index=2
Archives of Injustice: Race,
History & Criminal Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGkmKK-2O_M&list=PLqiL0zzvL-F6N8XDSFWGjvAOVJ7ckCyHi&index=3
By the numbers: Voting,
redistricting wars fought in least-white states
How a 19-Year-Old Got Charged
with a Hate Crime for Teasing a Cop
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/19-old-got-charged-hate-222636380.html
Opinion: Democrats must do
whatever it takes to defend voting. And
not just in Texas.
The Technology Revolution:
Manuel Castells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXrhoESrU1c&list=PLqiL0zzvL-F6N8XDSFWGjvAOVJ7ckCyHi&index=4
Jodi Dean "Communicative
Capitalism and the Communist Party"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn19okthKns&list=PLqiL0zzvL-F6N8XDSFWGjvAOVJ7ckCyHi&index=5
What is Surveillance Capitalism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcADchWhwUk&list=PLqiL0zzvL-F6N8XDSFWGjvAOVJ7ckCyHi&index=6
Climate Science: Crash Course
History of Science #45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsFdROZ2OdA&list=PLqiL0zzvL-F6N8XDSFWGjvAOVJ7ckCyHi&index=7
Race for Profit: How Banks and
the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469653662/race-for-profit/
(1977) THE COMBAHEE RIVER
COLLECTIVE STATEMENT
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977/
‘The real damage’: Why FEMA is
denying disaster aid to Black families that have lived for generation in the
Deep South
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/11/fema-black-owned-property/
A Federal Probe Into Indian
Boarding School Gravesites Seeks To Bring Healing
What will a US investigation
into Native American boarding schools uncover? | The Stream
North Carolina’s Democratic
Governor Is Ignoring Black and Native Communities: For the communities already
at climate change’s mercy, Governor Roy Cooper’s support for joining the
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is just another top-down management misstep.
Standoff in Texas: SWAT command
leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman
Illinois becomes first state to
ban police from lying to minors during interrogations amid ongoing criminal
justice overhaul under Pritzker
Resistance review – mime star
Marcel Marceau's wartime heroics. Jesse
Eisenberg plays the legendary performer who helped thousands of Jews escape the
Nazis, in a well-meaning but cliche-ridden biopic
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/18/resistance-review-marcel-marceau-biopic-jesse-eisenberg
Angry White Parents Are Once
Again Winning the Battle for the American Classroom: Classes are being
canceled, and teachers are being fired, as “anti–critical race theory” fights
are coming to a head in Republican states. But the viral school board videos
are only part of the story.
White Too Long: The Legacy of
White Supremacy in American Christianity, By Robert P. Jones
Midwest Dispatch: As Crime
Increases, Biden Pursues the Usual Non-Solutions. The President is likely to respond to the
national crime uptick with more police, more prisons, and more punishment—but
what we really need are more Pell Grants for the incarcerated.
BELIEVE IN BLACK STUDENTS: Here
are some ways schools can take action and demonstrate a commitment to
anti-racism that is essential for reducing pandemic learning loss
https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/believe-in-black-students/
Unequal Justice: Don’t Count on
the Supreme Court to Curb Gun Violence.
Now that conservatives hold a solid majority of the U.S. Supreme Court,
we can expect that they will extend gun rights under the Second Amendment in
the court’s upcoming term.
Making an Issue of—And a Film
About—Gun Control: Judd Ehrlich’s new documentary “The Price of Freedom”
explores the history of the NRA, the Founding Fathers’ stance on gun control,
and the connection between racism and gun violence.
https://progressive.org/latest/film-gun-control-grossman-210714/?mc_cid=68d7ad39d7&mc_eid=645398ebef
Marine Veteran and Long-Lost
Daughter Connect for the First Time In Over Half a Century Thanks to DNA Test:
‘I Didn’t Know How to Find You’
The Company You Keep
Don’t Olympic Athletes Deserve
Freedom of Speech?
A Poet Reflects On How We Reckon
— Or Fail To Reckon — With The Legacy Of Slavery
Groups Fighting Climate Change
Efforts Also Spearheading Critical Race Theory Hysteria: The right-wing think
tanks and activist groups behind the recent conservative surge of interest in
the teaching of structural racism in schools are using their climate change
playbook.
How The Hate We Carry Will
Burden Us.
Philadelphia Could Ban Certain
Traffic Stops To Curb Racial Disparities
The Radical Women Who Paved the
Way for Free Speech and Free Love: Anthony Comstock’s crusade against vice
constrained the lives of ordinary Americans. His antagonists opened up history
for feminists and other activists.
Tiffany Kimmel Stubbert
https://www.tiffanykimmel.com/
Biden administration signals intent to defend religious
exemption for schools
A New Global Group of 21 Lawmakers Will Pressure
Countries on Climate Change: The Global Alliance for a Green New Deal wants
sharper emissions cuts, better climate finance from rich countries, ecological
justice, and more.
Justice Department has
'concerns' about Purdue Pharma bankruptcy exit plan: Meanwhile, the U.S.
trustee issued a formal objection to the plan.
THE CONFEDERACY: YOU HAVE A
CHOICE
https://cloakinginequity.com/2021/07/17/the-confederacy-you-have-a-choice/
Flash of Genius
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas/flash-of-genius
Alabama district attorney aims
to prosecute a woman for taking a prescribed drug while pregnant
https://www.rawstory.com/alabama-prescription-monitoring/
Philadelphia’s American
Revolution museum is elevating Black voices. Interpreters say their roles are
complicated by old wounds. Noah Lewis,
who portrays Revolutionary War hero, Edward “Ned” Hector, is one of four living
history interpreters in a new summer program at the Museum of the American
Revolution.
Two men charged in alleged plot
to firebomb California Democratic Party headquarters
Poway synagogue shooter pleads
guilty to murder, attempted murder
Eight Facts About Immigrants and
Immigration
ADL CONDEMNS WHITE SUPREMACIST
MARCH IN PHILADELPHIA
https://philadelphia.adl.org/adl-condemns-white-supremacist-march-in-philadelphia/
Al Día: Philly’s Cambodian
community demands more resources after receiving a letter threatening violence
over fireworks
“Sing Out, March On” at Harvard
Commencement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKNRXQemxWQ
Jewish artifacts taken by Nazis
in Holocaust seized at New York auction house, feds say
Environmental Racism – Van Jones at TEDx
Local 8: Philadelphia's
Interracial Longshore Union
https://depts.washington.edu/iww/local8iww.shtml
The Ever Given and the
Monstrosity of Maritime Capitalism: Two timely new books unmask the colossal
shipping industry behind global trade, whose monstrous pursuit of profit has
long wreaked havoc on laborers and the seas they sail through.
Robin D.G. Kelley: Amazon Union
Drive Builds on Decades of Black Radical Labor Activism in Alabama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkBBBrQPqXY
Amazon now encircles the
Philadelphia region with over 50 warehouses: Amazon doubled the number of
warehouses across the Philadelphia region during the pandemic, in part to take
on arch rival Walmart. No other company can match the scale of Amazon's
expansion here.
https://www.inquirer.com/business/amazon-prime-warehouses-philadelphia-jobs-growth-20210418.html
American Education Is Founded on
White Race Theory: The conservative hysteria over critical race theory is
ultimately a refusal to acknowledge that the country’s classrooms have always
taught a white-centric view of U.S. history.
https://newrepublic.com/article/163093/critical-race-theory-history-white-american-education
'Homecoming': 100 years after
forceful removal, Nez Perce people celebrate reclaimed land
Dianne Lugo
'You're all f---ed up': Trump exploded after his
officials warned against using military troops to end George Floyd protests,
book says
Conservatives’ Bullshit War on
Simone Biles: None of the gymnast’s suddenly frothing critics actually care
about gymnastics or the Olympics. They’re just outrage junkies desperate for a
fix.
Texas Senate removes requirement
to tell students that the KKK are 'morally wrong': The move is one of about two
dozen curricula that are being removed from requirements.
Ex-GOP Rep. Slams Republicans'
'War on Public Health' Amid COVID Surge
Holocaust Survivor’s Powerful
Story | Memoirs Of WWII #25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0jCSsHs09w&t=2s
Moving Beyond Misogyny: Why do
they hate us?
How science overlooks Asian
Americans: The pandemic put Asian Americans in a spotlight — and revealed how
little is known about them
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/asian-americans-science-data-invisible-demography-violence
Oregon High School Janitor
Stockpiled Weapons for Mass Shooting: Cops. Kristopher Clay turned himself in
and allegedly told officers he was having “homicidal thoughts.”
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article253277948.html
Legislators demand answers after
report reveals 'blatant' racial profiling by Michigan border agents
Innocent Man Held Two Years in Mental Institution for
Denying He Was Someone Else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spn0FI6niPg
Patriots or paramilitary? Armed
groups working with police raising questions.
United Citizens Alarm works hand in tactical glove with police, but
critics say it undermines law enforcement legitimacy
Interrupting Bias: Calling Out
vs. Calling In
“No Choice but to Do It”: Why
Women Go to Prison. Many of the 230,000
women and girls in U.S. jails and prisons were abuse survivors before they
entered the system. And at least 30 percent of those serving time on murder or
manslaughter charges were protecting themselves or a loved one from physical or
sexual violence.
Behind the GOP Strategy to
Outlaw Trans Youth: Activists are beating back Republicans’ virulent attacks on
trans rights. But the battle is costing the trans community.
Old City of Jerusalem and its
Walls 🇮🇱
Israel - The Holy City Video Guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMctKuzFwhc
Capitalism Is The Disease: Mike
Davis on the Coronavirus Crisis
https://power.buellcenter.columbia.edu/media/113
Futures of Black Radicalism
Infectious Fear: Politics,
Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
https://uncpress.org/book/9780807859346/infectious-fear/
The ‘Chinese Flu’ Is Part of a
Long History of Racializing Disease: During a plague outbreak in 1899,
officials in Honolulu quarantined and burned the city’s Chinatown. Some
Covid-19 talk today echoes their rhetoric.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-17/when-racism-and-disease-spread-together
Schools Boards Are the New
Battleground Over Critical Race Theory: Conservative parents are winning seats
by promising to fight the latest right-wing bogeyman.
On the Line: Refusing to Lie,
Regardless of the Law
https://progressive.org/magazine/on-the-line-refusing-to-lie/
Outlawing the Truth: Republicans
want students to learn a mythological version of U.S. history because the
reality of the past threatens their power in the present.
https://progressive.org/magazine/outlawing-the-truth-sanchez/
What Schools in Minneapolis Are
Teaching About Race. Hint: It’s not about blaming white people or hating the
United States.
https://progressive.org/magazine/minneapolis-schools-teach-race-lahm/
This Changes Everything (2019)
Official Trailer HD, Fathom Event Documentary Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPGwJmSMoPs
The ‘Creative Chaos’ of Gloria
Richardson (1922–2021): The civil rights activist was a militant advocate for
her community as well as a canny strategist.
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/gloria-richardson/
From a High-School Cheerleader,
a Lesson in Free Speech: As school resumes, the Supreme Court’s decision in the
most significant student free speech case in decades reverberates across the
country.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cheerleader-free-speech/
Do We Need Police? A former police lieutenant debates an
abolitionist.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/police-reform-abolition/
The Anti-Asian Roots of Today’s
Anti-Immigrant Politics: Long before Trump, politicians on the country’s West
Coast mobilized a white working-class base through violent hate of Chinese and
Japanese immigrants.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/anti-asian-violence-labor/
The New “Crime Wave” Panic and
the Long Shadow of John Walsh. We are
still living in the world that Walsh, and “America’s Most Wanted,” helped
build: a paranoid populace that believes crime is everywhere and can only be
solved through relentless policing.
The First Amendment Under Fire:
Can the ideals of free speech and social justice be reconciled?
How a Black Lives Matter Leader Started a ‘Freedom
School’ Summer Program for Kids
What Prosecutors Are Really Like
'Did he really have to shoot
them all?' Ex-cop charged after open firing in deadly Costco shooting
‘His music was louder than what
a security guard prefers,' so Alvin Motley is shot and killed
Just Mercy: Race and the
Criminal Justice System with Bryan Stevenson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5DfVmtKgzw
Report: Many Private Schools Use
Christian Textbooks That Glorify the Confederacy, Call Black Activists the Root
Cause of Racial Discord
'I didn’t even like voting for you': Black West Virginia
voters vow to hold Manchin accountable
Nixed Utah high school lessons
taught students 'most slaves were treated kindly' and had nice housing
https://www.rawstory.com/utah-high-school-slavery-lessons/
‘We See How This Section Can Be
Improved’: Utah Learning Center Faces Backlash After Student History Packets
Claimed ‘Most Slaves’ Were ‘Treated Kindly’
'Unearthing the truth':
Kapawe'no First Nation prepares for search of former residential school site in
Alberta
A Fight to Expose the Hidden
Human Costs of Incarceration: The law professor Andrea Armstrong is documenting
the loss of life inside jails and prisons in Louisiana, the state with the
highest in-custody mortality rate.
Can health insurance companies
charge the unvaccinated higher premiums? What about life insurers? 5 questions
answered
Mike Richards abruptly steps
down as Jeopardy! host after backlash over comments about women and Jews
You Have the Right to Keep
Filming the Cops—for Now: The Supreme Court will take up a case that bundles
concerns over qualified immunity with a consequential First Amendment dispute.
2020 US census: Americans
calling themselves multiracial surged by 276 percent
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/19/cens-a19.html
Spring Hill Man Sentenced To
Federal Prison For Theft Of Government Funds
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/spring-hill-man-sentenced-federal-prison-theft-government-funds
Hate/Uncycled: Inclusive
Campuses Challenging Bias and Hate
https://www.adl.org/hate-uncycled
Unconventional Combat:
Intersectional Action in the Veterans’ Peace Movement
https://www.unconventionalcombat.com/
Unconventional Combat: Exploring
Intersectionality through the Study of Military Veterans. Review By Karen Sternheimer
Charleston killer Dylann Roof’s death penalty upheld by
federal appeals court
https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article253733108.html
Body Cam Video Shows Louisiana
Trooper Beating Black Man: ‘I’m Not Resisting!’
The Associated Press finally obtained the graphic footage of a state
trooper pummeling Aaron Larry Bowman, who suffered broken ribs among his injuries.
Fight For You (From the Original
Motion Picture "Judas and the Black Messiah" (Official...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu8TS2Vr6lo
Corporate America’s $50 billion
promise: A Post analysis of racial justice pledges after George Floyd’s
death reveals the limits of
corporate power to effect change
How the Critical Race Theory
Scaremongering Failed in Virginia: The right bought race and trans hysteria to
school board meetings in once scarlet-red Loudoun County. But guess which side
won?
"They Took This Man's
Life:" 7 Ohio Prison Guards Fired After Black Inmate Died in Their Custody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnEAMyFzqUg
Ohio Man Faces Arrest for On-Air
Attack of MSNBC Reporter Covering Hurricane Ida in Mississippi
Benjamin Eugene Dagley faces two
counts of simple assault and two other charges for disrupting Shaquille
Brewster during a live report
Kennedy family erupts over
release of assassin who killed Robert F Kennedy: “We are devastated that the
man who murdered our father has been recommended for parole.”
FBI report shows hate crimes at
highest level in 12 years
Ex-Prosecutor Accused Of
Interfering With Investigation Into Ahmaud Arbery's Killing
Joining Our Struggles
http://www.populist.com/27.16.Seggel.html
Despite the Ban, Protest Emerges
at the Olympics: The IOC’s efforts to quell visible dissent failed.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/raven-saunders-olympics-protest/
The Traitor Robert E. Lee
Finally Gets His Just Desserts: A gargantuan monument to the rebel general will
come down in the capital of the Confederacy.
Black People Acutely Aware of
Structural Racism
Remembering Bob Moses,
1935–2021: His leadership ushered in alternative conceptions of gender, race,
and political power that would, eventually, shake the world.
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/bob-moses-obituary-sncc/
Black Women Olympians Showed Us
What It Means to Be Excellent—and Human: If there is a sea change in the way
mental health is understood in elite sports, it is being led by Simone Biles
and other Black women.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/black-women-olympics/
There Is No Debate About
Critical Race Theory: How GOP politicians and conservative activists are trying
to create controversy where there is none.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/09/04/there-is-no-debate-about-critical-race-theory/
Impeachment: American Crime
Story Has an Unlikely Main Character.
Rather than focus on Bill Clinton or Monica Lewinsky, the show makes
Linda Tripp the key to understanding the tangled and toxic politics of the late
1990s.
The Resistance and Ingenuity of
the Cooks Who Lived in Slavery: Archaeologists are investigating foodways and
recreating meals prepared by enslaved people.
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