Why West Side Story leaves out Black Americans
https://newrepublic.com/article/164788/west-side-story-black-americans?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch
Report: High-ranking D.C. cops,
including current chief, helped criminal officers keep their jobs
https://theweek.com/police-reform/1008219/report-high-ranking-dc-cops-including-current-chief-helped-criminal-officers?utm_campaign=afternoon_newsletter_20211219&utm_source=afternoon_newsletter&utm_medium=email&refid=20E8D3B3314CD84F82A7DD5120915E94
ZOA Virtual Gala
https://zoavirtualgala.com/
How White Women Can Move Toward
Anti-Racism: White women can be part of dismantling racism, but for that to
happen, they will need to unpack white supremacy and privilege first.
https://www.greenamerica.org/voices-inclusion-and-justice/how-white-women-can-move-toward-anti-racism
When It Comes to Activism, Native Women Lead the Way:
Native American women share their learnings from work rooted in historical
trauma and healing through self-determination.
https://www.greenamerica.org/voices-inclusion-and-justice/when-it-comes-activism-native-women-lead-way
Martyrdom & Resistance, the
publication of American Society for Yad Vashem
https://www.yadvashemusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/mandr_december-21.pdf
Det. Sean Suiter family attorney
Jeremy Eldridge on HBO documentary "The Slow Hustle"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtnmjD65PGo
“Parallel Mothers” Confronts the
Legacies of Fascism
https://newrepublic.com/article/164772/parallel-mothers-almodovar-review-legacies-fascism
Legalize it, already! Biden needs to ditch his old-fashioned ideas
about marijuana and realize that legalization is a winning bipartisan issue….
https://newrepublic.com/article/164785/marijuana-legalization-biden-2022-midterms?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch
New York State Declares Racism a
‘Public Health Crisis’: Governor Kathy Hochul signs a package of legislation to
combat discrimination and racism across the state.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-23/new-york-declares-racism-a-public-health-crisis?fbclid=IwAR2aX9cbXe6YggYE_sW43qiKOkIOjlKTl4qdnHhgrfFOYxyt3X8LBorplQw
GENE LYONS: Winners, losers,
it's all in your perspective
https://www.goshennews.com/opinion/gene-lyons-winners-losers-its-all-in-your-perspective/article_8ff4b32a-4272-11ec-b08c-1b7298b62087.html
MARY SANCHEZ: Two Missouri
inmates, two tales of justice delayed
https://www.goshennews.com/opinion/mary-sanchez-two-missouri-inmates-two-tales-of-justice-delayed/article_38964608-41c7-11ec-bea6-97f6b3308785.html
A Rabbit on the Face of Moon
http://www.populist.com/27.22.Cintli.html
It’s a Grand Ol’ Flag
http://www.populist.com/27.22.Kalet.html
Executing Executions, Oklahoma
Style
https://barrysfriedman.substack.com/p/executing-executions-oklahoma-style
Pass This
http://www.populist.com/27.22.Sandronsky.html
L.A.’s biggest film festival
returns with great anti-racist films
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/l-a-s-biggest-film-festival-returns-with-great-anti-racist-films/
Can Helen LaFrance’s Mural Be
Saved after Surviving Big Recent Kentucky Tornado?
https://www.laprogressive.com/helen-lafrance/?utm_source=LA+Progressive+NEW&utm_campaign=522d5b6557-LAP+News+-+20+April+17+PC_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_61288e16ef-522d5b6557-286987487&mc_cid=522d5b6557&mc_eid=dd9216c814
Solitary by Another Name: As
states pass new laws to reform solitary confinement, advocates are pushing for
this harmful practice to be fully abolished.
https://progressive.org/magazine/solitary-by-another-name-wykstra/
Unlock Them Up! In Massachusetts and elsewhere, advocates are
pushing for alternatives to incarceration.
https://progressive.org/magazine/unlock-them-up-law/
Librarians to the Defense:
Groups form to fight a conservative-led attack on libraries’ efforts to promote
social justice.
https://progressive.org/magazine/librarians-to-the-defense-bader/
‘Endless Wars’ That Never Should
Have Begun
https://progressive.org/magazine/endless-wars-never-should-begun-bacon-stockwell/
Taking a Knee: New book tells
the stories of dozens of people who joined Colin Kaepernick’s protest. Here is
one of them.
https://progressive.org/magazine/taking-a-knee-zirin/
A Message We Must Hear: A review
of "Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America."
https://progressive.org/magazine/message-we-must-hear-stockwell/
The White Stuff
https://progressive.org/magazine/the-white-stuff-gilmore/
Stray Police Bullet Kills Girl
as Officers Fire at Suspect in Los Angeles Store: The suspect was killed and a
shot pierced a wall, fatally striking a 14-year-old in a dressing room during
the confrontation at a clothing store, the police said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/us/girl-fatally-shot-police-los-angeles.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20211224&instance_id=48636&nl=the-morning®i_id=168579403&segment_id=77836&te=1&user_id=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496
Fearing Your Neighbors: How law
enforcement and Big Tech exploit neighborhood watch technology to create
dystopian, digitally gated communities.
https://progressive.org/magazine/fearing-your-neighbors-kuhlenbeck/
First-Person Singular: My
Neighbors, the White Nationalists
https://progressive.org/magazine/neighbors-white-nationalists-cohen/
Judge LaDoris Cordell on the
guilty verdict in the Ahmaud Arbery case & the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal
https://www.kalw.org/show/your-call/2021-12-02/judge-ladoris-cordell-on-the?fbclid=IwAR08dcucEq-W014uqxY2AWOloCNfQwaaLrUF2os_8Vv97HhHFtGXtr6gy8I
A better path forward for
criminal justice: Police reform
https://www.brookings.edu/research/a-better-path-forward-for-criminal-justice-police-reform/?link_id=17&can_id=1d0923a39dd9395ca5e7b571495ca9ab&source=email-the-broadsheet-and-lycoming-progressive&email_referrer=email_1395997&email_subject=the-broadsheet-and-lycoming-progressive
Invisible Warriors: California’s
Incarcerated Female Firefighters.
Despite minimal pay, rigorous training, and insufficient care for
grueling injuries, incarcerated firefighters risk their lives to combat deadly
fires during California's wildfire season.
https://scheerpost.com/2021/12/29/invisible-warriors-californias-incarcerated-female-firefighters/?fbclid=IwAR1boTHrTVVNIflQGVEzBHoFEeOkdGOkmbFw9hpZA_HwymfD_32NZEaLxBY
‘Boundless’: New sculpture in
North Carolina honors Black soldiers who helped win the Civil War
https://www.splcenter.org/news/2021/12/10/boundless-new-sculpture-north-carolina-honors-black-soldiers-who-helped-win-civil-war?link_id=28&can_id=1d0923a39dd9395ca5e7b571495ca9ab&source=email-the-broadsheet-and-lycoming-progressive&email_referrer=email_1395997&email_subject=the-broadsheet-and-lycoming-progressive
Was Babe Ruth Black?
https://medium.com/buzzer-beater/was-babe-ruth-black-6a4f3cf9188
White Privilege: Unpacking the
Invisible Knapsack
https://psychology.umbc.edu/files/2016/10/White-Privilege_McIntosh-1989.pdf
How to recognize your white privilege
and use it to fight inequality
https://www.ted.com/talks/peggy_mcintosh_how_to_recognize_your_white_privilege_and_use_it_to_fight_inequality/transcript?language=en
Survey finds most Brits unaware
Nazis killed 6 million Jews in Holocaust: Claims Conference president concerned
by "profound gaps in knowledge of the Holocaust in this, previous studies,
including about events connected to the UK."
https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/11/11/survey-finds-most-brits-unaware-nazis-killed-6-million-jews-in-holocaust/
Many COVID vaccine conspiracy
theories target Blacks: Here’s why they can work
https://thebulletin.org/2021/12/many-covid-vaccine-conspiracy-theories-target-blacks-heres-why-they-can-work/
Shared Legacies - Official
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcEu_1jDHiI
Overt and Covert Racism
https://www.r2hub.org/library/overt-and-covert-racism
Dozens protest antisemitism in
New York after two Jews attacked: Group led by local politicians rallies in
Brooklyn after men assaulted, called ‘dirty Jews’ for wearing IDF sweatshirt;
anti-Israel activists hold a counterprotest
https://www.timesofisrael.com/dozens-protest-antisemitism-in-new-york-after-two-jews-attacked/?mc_cid=a7b0432c18&mc_eid=5fbd657cc7
Upending Racism: Reconstructing
and re-centering justice work: A few guidelines for change
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Flk6OE-vRq3fktHjNN55T9gm3nw8YUGfsflqeOJjrJY/edit
Mindful and Multicultural
Counseling: Racial Healing for All of Us
https://mailchi.mp/14c44114b331/racial-healing-for-all-of-us?e=dd10dd0ec1
Robin DiAngelo | Nice Racism:
How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nj8VOzvelY
Racial Identity and antiracism
continuum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhT1o-4zya8
Will the Opioid Settlement Money
Actually Help Those Who Need it?
https://newrepublic.com/article/164922/opioid-settlement-state-funds?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch
JWV Co-Hosts National Veterans
Day Ceremony
https://www.jwv.org/jwv-co-hosts-national-veterans-day-ceremony/
Closing My Chapter on
Afghanistan
https://www.jwv.org/closing-my-chapter-on-afghanistan/
USS Olympia: Centennial of
Unknown Soldier’s Voyage Home
https://www.jwv.org/uss-olympia-centennial-of-unknown-soldiers-voyage-home/
Veterans History Project
-Preserving Stories of Service
https://www.jwv.org/veterans-history-project-preserving-stories-of-service/
Department of Minnesota
Celebrates 76th Anniversary
https://www.jwv.org/department-of-minnesota-celebrates-76th-anniversary/
FBI Informant Who Reportedly
Helped Stop the Murder of a Black Man by the KKK Says the Klan Is More
‘Prevalent and Consequential’ Than the Agencies Would Like to Admit
https://atlantablackstar.com/2021/12/31/fbi-informant-who-reportedly-helped-stop-the-murder-of-a-black-man-by-the-kkk-says-the-klan-is-more-prevalent-and-consequential-than-the-agencies-would-like-to-admit/?fbclid=IwAR1Tn15-WxGLEG5S976AZvID3lE9sjWZF6l1i7ikm7a7SkUVCd0yhodQFUI
India’s BJP Pushes Their
Anti-Muslim Rhetoric
https://www.laprogressive.com/indias-bjp/
The Politics of Moral Outrage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw6ScbPPFXs
Where Are Black Parents’ Voices
on Critical Race Theory? Black parents
overwhelmingly support teaching about race and racism in school. Why aren’t we
hearing from them?
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/black-parents-critical-race-theory/
One Brother Gave the Soviets the
A-Bomb. The Other Got a Medal. J. Edgar
Hoover had both of them in his sights. Yet neither one was ever arrested. The
untold story of how the Hall brothers beat the FBI.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ted-hall-espionage-fbi/
The Fight to Remember the Black
Rebellion at Igbo Landing: The 19th century uprising has long inspired art and
folklore. Why do so few traces of it remain in coastal Georgia today?
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2021/12/igbo-landing-georgia-dunbar-creek-toni-morrison-flying-african/
Can You Be “White Passing” Even
if You Aren’t Trying? The phrase has
become popular on social media. But
there’s a lot left out of the conversation.
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2021/12/can-you-be-white-passing-even-if-you-arent-trying/
The Forgotten Chinese Chef Who
Taught America to Stir-Fry: Chao Yang Buwei opened America’s eyes to Chinese
cooking techniques, even as she refused to pander to do so.
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2021/11/chao-yang-buwei-forgotten-chinese-chef-who-taught-america-to-stir-fry-taste-makers/#:~:text=Chao%20Yang%20Buwei%20opened%20America's,to%20pander%20to%20do%20so.&text=It%20was%20May%201945%20when,first%20entered%20the%20English%20lexicon.
Virginia Beach Cops Used Fake
DNA To Pressure Subjects During Interrogations: Official. The city's outgoing attorney general says
police falsely linked people's DNA to crimes.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/virginia-beach-cops-used-fake-dna-to-pressure-subjects-during-interrogations_n_61e03c07e4b0a267028a5606?utm_campaign=share_facebook&ncid=engmodushpmg00000003&fbclid=IwAR2qbTE8XUp2ExUH6iWhayhtmyxrThcXc7FthyqpDvQVbOhsQpq3IPp2ehA
The Story of Rishvin Ismath, the
Only Outspoken Ex-Muslim of Sri Lanka
https://thehumanist.com/magazine/fall-2021/up-front/the-story-of-rishvin-ismath-the-only-outspoken-ex-muslim-of-sri-lanka
FIRST PERSON | Trans Rights Are
Humanist Values
https://thehumanist.com/magazine/fall-2021/first-person/trans-rights-are-humanist-values
Youngkin eliminates
cabinet-level DEI post and bans 'critical race theory' from public schools
https://theweek.com/culture/1009060/youngkin-eliminates-cabinet-level-dei-post-and-bans-critical-race-theory-from
Suspect dead and all hostages
safe after FBI storms Texas synagogue
https://theweek.com/crime/1009056/suspect-dead-and-all-hostages-safe-after-fbi-storms-texas-synagogue
Chaos on the roads: Across the
country, traffic tragedies are piling up
https://theweek.com/life/1008974/chaos-on-the-roads
5 Powerful Ways to Take REAL
Action on DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion)
https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/5-powerful-ways-to-take-real-action-on-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion/
The Remapping of America—From an
Indigenous Point of View: New maps can revive Cherokee place names in Southern
Appalachia and restore crucial knowledge amid an environmental catastrophe.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165021/remapping-cherokee-country
Martin Luther King's family,
Vice President Harris urge action for voting rights
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/family-martin-luther-king-jr-lead-washington-march-voting-rights-2022-01-17/
Minnesota COVID-19 patient flown
to Texas after judge orders doctors to keep him on ventilator
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/590073-minnesota-covid-19-patient-flown-to-texas-after-judge-orders-doctors-to?fbclid=IwAR0MCG1CAZS0DLPS0JhgenL96KMngIcJgs7BgZvPCsa3BL5sh9-fCzJpbfY
Texas Synagogue Attack Was
Motivated By Antisemitism… But Apparently Not For The New York Times &
BBC. Is it anti-Jewish to take hostage
worshippers at a synagogue with the goal of getting a notoriously antisemitic terrorist released from prison?
https://honestreporting.com/texas-synagogue-attack-was-motivated-by-antisemitism-but-apparently-not-at-the-new-york-times-bbc/
Celebrating Black History Month:
A Profile of Author and Humanist Zora Neale Hurston
https://thehumanist.com/features/profiles/celebrating-black-history-month-a-profile-of-author-and-humanist-zora-neale-hurston/
Why We Need More Black Humanists
in Academia
https://thehumanist.com/magazine/winter-2022/features/why-we-need-more-black-humanists-in-academia
The Everyday Practicality of
Evil
https://thehumanist.com/magazine/winter-2022/features/the-everyday-practicality-of-evil
An Examination of Policy Views
by Race & Religion
https://thehumanist.com/magazine/winter-2022/features/an-examination-of-policy-views-by-race-religion
Meet Jed Rakoff, the Judge Who
Exposed the “Rigged Game”: “We have mass incarceration for the poor, and it’s totally hands-off for
the rich, and that’s pretty hard to stomach.” Justice Jed Rakoff on his new book, and his famous challenge to
the system
https://scheerpost.com/2022/01/05/meet-jed-rakoff-the-judge-who-exposed-the-rigged-game/?fbclid=IwAR3EMZHHUvYYc8YjDHo_XEjuF2gZjLJSMe-zJbl8-MLB2VoSbmUAAuZN5PY
A murder in New York and the
dilemma of deinstitutionalization: The dangerous gap in Democratic leaders'
response to rising urban disorder
https://theweek.com/public-health/1009111/a-murder-in-new-york-and-the-dilemma-of-deinstitutionalization?fbclid=IwAR13rCa_lzDPFkFHMgxnMt-B6Im4yh8J5JIdzby4b4YJCtPDNuHsMxDKSeQ
White Supremacists Killed More
Americans Than Muslim Extremists in Recent Years, Terrorism Report Shows
https://www.newsweek.com/white-supremacists-killed-more-americans-muslim-extremists-recent-years-terrorism-report-shows-1517096?fbclid=IwAR0K7zm1Ojt27FZfPmO8w_MFEDd3_GO0-3HQv62wgO200CHOJ93246iFjdg
Sirhan Sirhan’s Continued
Imprisonment Flies in the Face of RFK’s Ideals: Gavin Newsom's refusal to let
Kennedy's 77-year-old killer die at home after a half century behind bars is
nothing more than a cynical political stunt.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165112/sirhan-gavin-newsom-prison-release
El Chapo allegedly whacked the
men who forced him to pay $500K for long johns
https://nypost.com/2022/01/21/el-chapo-whacked-men-who-made-him-pay-500k-for-long-johns/
The Fugitive Brewer
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2sBPArc6zOQBbfWoKBmdOe
Black Man Arrested, Held in Jail
for Days, Mistaken for Older White Man With Same Name
https://www.newsweek.com/black-man-arrested-held-jail-days-mistaken-older-white-man-same-name-1671838?utm_source=PushnamiMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1642809032473&subscriberId=614e18757aeb51cecbdc121d
Woman charged with hate crimes
after allegedly spitting on Jewish children in New York City: Christina Darling,
21, was arrested following last week's incident in Brooklyn.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-charged-hate-crimes-allegedly-spitting-jewish-children-new-york-rcna13110?fbclid=IwAR2EzwXvxzHCrNNEm07hTUs3hKfp2KUn4kvICY51nRQ3t6ZhP1nbQ4Awruc
The End of Bias: A Beginning
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52079610-the-end-of-bias
The Lies Fueling California’s
Package-Theft Panic: Police unions, the retail lobby, and other critics of criminal
justice reform have seized on viral images of package theft and shoplifting to
push for a rollback of California’s efforts to reduce its
prison population.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165146/union-pacific-package-theft-panic
International Holocaust Remembrance
Commemoration Ceremony: In-Person + Virtual.
Event by The National WWII Museum
https://vimeo.com/event/1678378
We observe International Holocaust Remembrance
Day on Jan. 27, which is also the anniversary of the liberation of
the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
https://view.adlmail.org/?qs=2568cbf767f1bc387368204a03ea8cb56f019e3a67244172b0520cb03da8fb3d7e57f918a696b8a5ad740d7e19aa4a91e0e037d2d4836f6b6dee3009faf7bc21d3fbde77c31d3cbea1892aa7127ca858
Remembering the Clarion Call
of bell hooks: My recollections of the late scholar, who revolutionized her fields.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/bell-hooks-race-feminism/
How the Left Alienates Jews:
Jewish voices are too often excluded from precisely the conversations they should
be leading.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bds-dsa-antisemitism-israel/
Joleen Nez: A Death in
Custody. How racism, negligence, and a
politically connected medical provider turned
homelessness into a capital crime.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/joleen-nez-new-mexico-death/
A Free South: The Black Arts
Movement and the politics of emancipation.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/james-smethurst-black-arts-movement/
Willie Stokes, Cleared Of
Murder After 37 Years In Prison, Sues City Of Philadelphia
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/01/27/willie-stokes-cleared-murder-sues-philadelphia/?fbclid=IwAR1Mtoa1DDCedkGWVqT6F6WnztDpjKXTooX6sdWsv_ooDw4eB73oQgLuSKc
Stephen Miller Is Race-Baiting
About Covid Treatments: The former Trump adviser’s new scheme, America First Legal, has targeted health guidelines
for antibody drugs
https://newrepublic.com/article/165195/stephen-miller-race-covid-treatments
Jim Crow Wails in Anguish
https://www.laprogressive.com/jim-crow-3/
It’s Time for a City Attorney
in L.A. Who Will Hold the LAPD Accountable
https://www.laprogressive.com/hold-the-lapd-accountable/
Jim Hightower: We're talking
about power
https://magicvalley.com/opinion/columnists/jim-hightower-were-talking-about-power/article_a028ef5e-beb3-5493-9c94-b644fb2bcc24.html
FROMA HARROP: The MeToo
defense was beneath her dignity
https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/froma-harrop-the-metoo-defense-was-beneath-her-dignity/article_2114d606-6e5f-11ec-a52e-6f6d445fd7ff.html
Another Woke Travesty
http://populist.com/28.02.OLeary.html
Remembering Bishop Tutu at
Hawaii
http://populist.com/28.02.Rampell.html
Stephen Breyer Versus the
Death Penalty: The soon-to-retire justice lost his fight to abolish the death
penalty. His courage keeps alive the possibility that some future court might
yet win.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165225/stephen-breyer-retires-death-penalty
