Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Criminal Justice and Racism and Ageism and other discrimination related links 051722

 

The magnificent dance of Margo Jefferson's Constructing a Nervous System: The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic returns with a brilliant memoir on race, criticism, and self

https://theweek.com/culture/books/1011491/the-magnificent-dance-of-margo-jeffersons-constructing-a-nervous-system

 

Black Like Me? Bridgerton and the Fantasy of a Non-Racist Past.  We can imagine a world where the only thing wrong with racial inequality is that non-white people are not allowed to share in the spoils of empire—but would we really want to live in it?

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/bridgerton-racism-shonda-rhimes/

 

Another World: The fantasias of Niki de Saint Phalle.

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/niki-de-saint-phalle/

 

‘They Made Me More Dangerous Than Anyone Could Ever F-cking Imagine’: Frank R. James, named as a suspect in the New York City subway shooting, left an online trail of hate

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Fculture%2Fculture-news%2Ffrank-james-new-york-brooklyn-subway-shooting-social-media-posts-1336740%2F

 

David Roediger, "Thinking Through Slavery..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyU_4hDBxco

 

A Reckoning With How Slavery Ended: Kris Manjapra’s new book, “Black Ghost of Empire,” examines the ways white slaveholders were compensated, while formerly enslaved people were not.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166102/reckoning-slavery-ended-kris-manjapra-black-ghost-empire

 

'Atlanta' Episode Highlights Debate Over Reparations - Apr 16, 2022  T

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Ytl6ZQ8NU

 

VP Harris Holds First-Ever Cabinet Meeting On The Black Maternal Health Crisis - Apr 16, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9intONnKUg

 

What has happened to us? | Gene Lyons

https://santamariatimes.com/opinion/commentary/what-has-happened-to-us-gene-lyons/article_eb1e88c9-664b-55cf-8ae5-7d842d07903d.html

 

Jamie Stiehm: Racing away from our past with Judge Jackson

https://www.nvdaily.com/nvdaily/jamie-stiehm-racing-away-from-our-past-with-judge-jackson/article_32320c5f-530d-539e-a050-9fb624436c3e.html

 

Guns become leading cause of death for children and adolescents in America

https://theweek.com/news/1012874/guns-become-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-and-adolescents-in-the-us

 

Prosecutor accidentally shoots himself in courthouse office

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-accidents-fff9452aa94ba60c892647c1ad816014

 

Why We Need Speechwriters Who Look Like America: America’s first Black presidential speechwriter on how leaders can speak more effectively to a diversifying country.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/20/why-we-need-speechwriters-who-look-like-america/

 

New Podcast Celebrates Black History and Future

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/spring-2022/up-front/new-podcast-celebrates-black-history-and-future

 

Repair Can’t Wait: The Case for Reparations

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/spring-2022/commentary/repair-cant-wait-the-case-for-reparations

 

Why Every Parent Should be a Gay-Friendly Parent

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/spring-2022/humanist-living/why-every-parent-should-be-a-gay-friendly-parent

 

AHA’s Ten Commitments at Work in Uganda

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/spring-2022/up-front/ahas-ten-commitments-at-work-in-uganda

 

Faith in Oneself: Towards a Black Humanist Buddhism

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/spring-2022/features/faith-in-oneself-towards-a-black-humanist-buddhism

 

Sex, Death, and Empire: The Roots of Violence Against Asian Women.  The line from America’s earliest empire in the Philippines to Japan, Korea, Vietnam—and anti-Asian violence at home—is straight, clear, and written in blood.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/anti-asian-racism-women/

 

Amid the Uprisings: Cedric Robinson’s theory of collective resistance.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cedric-robinson-essays/

 

Who Did Joe Biden Pardon? Full List of People Granted Clemency

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-pardon-full-list-people-granted-clemency-1701005

 

The Climate Crisis is a Struggle Against Colonialism - Reparations Now! - Started streaming Apr 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kPAgufVimE

 

The Climate Crisis is a Struggle Against Colonialism - Reparations Now! - Streamed live on Apr 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kPAgufVimE&t=18s

 

Neil Gorsuch Has a Critical Race Theory About Puerto Rico: The justice’s recent opinion takes a strong stance against the shameful way the United States has ruled over the territory.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166219/gorsuch-puerto-rico-insular-cases

 

Founder of Black Doctors Consortium appointed regional director of U.S. Health and Human Services by Biden.  Dr. Ala Stanford started the organization to provide COVID-19 testing and vaccines to underserved communities during the pandemic

https://www.phillyvoice.com/ala-stanford-biden-health-human-services-regional-director-appointment/amp/

 

Don’t Let the Tobacco Industry Use George Floyd to Kill a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes: Most members of the Congressional Black Caucus agree that the ban is a great move. So why is Al Sharpton taking the side of R.J. Reynolds?

https://newrepublic.com/article/166246/fda-ban-menthol-cigarettes-al-sharpton-rj-reynolds-george-floyd

 

Pyramids and the Ancient Nile Valley Civilization. - Sep 8, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnM7qfSdGDY

 

Pro-Confederates celebrating 'Confederate Memorial Day' clashed with protestors at Georgia's Stone Mountain

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pro-confederates-celebrating-confederate-memorial-151124199.html

 

A Role Model for the Midterms: Democrats need to fight back against the Republicans’ phony culture war. Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow showed how.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/09/a-role-model-for-the-midterms

 

Are the Kids All Right?: Racism | CBS Reports.  A racial reckoning is happening in America, but the voices of kids and teens are often missing from that conversation. In this episode of the CBS Reports documentary series "Are the Kids All Right?" young people from across the country share their perspectives on race and firsthand experiences with racism in the U.S. today.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/are-the-kids-all-right-racism-cbs-reports/

 

Crypto Is a Risky Bet for Black Americans: There are better ways to close the racial wealth gap while giving a leg up to Americans of every color.

https://www.populist.com/28.09.AsanteMuhammad.html

 

Don’t Say Mexican

https://www.populist.com/28.09.Cintli.html

 

Sacramento Shooting Aftermath: Interviewing a Community Advocate

https://www.populist.com/28.09.Sandronsky.html

 

Jackie Robinson’s Last Fight: As baseball celebrates the 75th anniversary of Robinson’s breaking the color line, it’s worth remembering a man at odds with his own myth.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jackie-robinson-baseball-racism/

 

Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: Building Trust in Everyday Moments Dismantles Proverbial Closet

https://www.noozhawk.com/article/bonnie_jean_feldkamp_building_trust_in_everyday_moments_dismantles_20220425

 

Coard: Slavery never really ended because 13th Amendment still allows it

https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/michaelcoard/coard-slavery-never-really-ended-because-13th-amendment-still-allows-it/article_a04c13ca-ea30-5f8d-a534-4a1ba46c7e00.html?fbclid=IwAR13kYiuR3f2jHmMHhphgkn63WklMd8y_OrhNFZse1vx3nM_-kjNK8unFEk

 

‘He’s Following Me! I am Working!’: Over 40 Cops Arrive After a Washington Sheriff Falsely Claimed a Man Threatened Him. The Man Was Delivering Newspapers and Was the One Being Harassed While on the Job.

https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/05/06/hes-following-me-i-am-working-over-40-cops-arrive-after-a-washington-sheriff-falsely-claimed-a-man-threatened-him-the-man-was-delivering-newspapers-and-was-the-one-being-harassed-while-on-th/

 

Who Keeps Us Safe?  Two 911 calls, six years apart, reveal the perils of policing and the promise of alternatives.

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2021/10/police-killing-black-shooting-911-alternative-oakland/

 

A Jim Crow–Era Murder. A Family Secret. Decades Later, What Does Justice Look Like? Inside a movement to reinvestigate hundreds of racist killings.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/jim-crow-unsolved-murder-lynching-justice-margaret-burnham-stories-families/

 

What Does It Mean to Call Someone a “Male Chauvinist Pig”?  The three jabs in quick succession—male, chauvinist, pig—are part of a larger feminist history.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/what-does-it-mean-to-call-someone-a-male-chauvinist-pig/

 

Slavery and the History of Congress's Enumerated Powers

https://racism.org/articles/law-and-justice/constitutional-law/10326-slavery-and?fbclid=IwAR1TQEstn16Lq-6l39Sy__sSNqEBuYxhbgU19Khao_VOE8WtrMpcixhHG6c

 

We’re in the Midst of a White-Collar Crime Wave: Financial malfeasance has never been more rampant, or more under-punished.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/white-collar-crime-crypto/

 

Diary of a Queer Kid: My experience as a child with an “odd” gender identity makes me very afraid for kids facing malicious transphobia in Texas.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/diary-queer-kid-texas/

 

Distant Moments: Joan Scott and the war over the past.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/joan-scott-judgement-history/

 

Abolition Democracy: W.E.B. Du Bois and the making of Black Reconstruction.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/web-du-bois-black-reconstruction/

 

Plan To Honor Black Fla. Judge Scuttled Over 1999 School Prayer Ruling

https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/plan-to-honor-black-fla-judge-scuttled-over-1999-school-prayer-ruling/

 

Native, Inc.: Fifty years ago, Indigenous Alaskans created their own corporations to manage their land and affairs. Their success holds lessons in the lower 48, where tribal rights are under renewed attack.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/native-inc/

 

He Spurred a Revolution in Psychiatry. Then He ‘Disappeared.’  In 1972, Dr. John Fryer risked his career to tell his colleagues that gay people were not mentally ill. His act sent ripples through the legal, medical and justice systems.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/health/john-fryer-psychiatry.html

 

“It Tears You Apart Mentally and Physically”: The Health Crisis Afflicting Black Farmers.  Farming is a stressful occupation. Black farmers face the additional burdens of racism, debt and fear of displacement.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/black-farmers-stress-debt-land-loss-racism-mental-health-crisis

 

PHILLY HAS AN EQUITY PROBLEM WITH MAIL BALLOT DROP BOXES: Elections officials say they’re working to fix it. But they don’t yet have a concrete plan, budget, or timeline.

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/inq2/philadelphia-mail-ballot-drop-boxes-equity-20220513.html

 

Women to the Rescue, Now!  A Review of “Hope, But Demand Justice” By Pat Hynes, 2022 Haley’s.

https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/women-to-the-rescue

 

Pete Buttigieg steals the show with VIRAL response to Buffalo tragedy - May 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX8HcwPvQEw

 

Former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught sentenced to 3 years probation

https://phl17.com/nmw/former-vanderbilt-nurse-radonda-vaught-sentenced-to-3-years-probation/

 

Mass mobilization of nurses keeps RaDonda Vaught out of jail, but the battle must continue!  Statement of the WSWS Health Care Workers Newsletter

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/12/heal-m12.html

 

How the construction of the Vine Street Expressway uncovered lost Black burial grounds: The highway runs over a pair of cemeteries run by the First African Baptist Church, which served a congregation of free Black people in the pre-Civil War era.

https://billypenn.com/2022/05/06/i676-vine-street-expressway-black-burial-grounds-history-philadelphia/

 

Police: Woman used perfume to ignite boyfriend's clothes, started Camden apartment fire

https://www.fox29.com/news/arrest-made-in-mothers-day-fire-that-left-22-displaced-in-camden

 

2 killed, 3 injured after shooting at busy Houston flea market: police

https://globalnews.ca/news/8837202/houston-flea-market-shooting-2-killed-three-injured/

 

Who are the victims of the mass shooting in Buffalo?  Ten people, including a retired Buffalo Police officer, were killed and three were wounded in a shooting Saturday afternoon at the Tops Market on Jefferson Ave.

https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/crime/what-we-know-tops-shooting-victims-buffalo-mass-shooting/71-30ad7b83-6732-4780-8f0d-ce6d5f656752

 

Community holds vigil, protests in wake of racially motivated mass shooting

https://buffalonews.com/news/local/community-holds-vigil-protests-in-wake-of-racially-motivated-mass-shooting/article_4babfb60-d471-11ec-b5a6-0344838a6698.html#tracking-source=home-top-story

 

Churchgoers tackled, hogtied gunman after deadly Laguna Woods church shooting

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-15/multiple-people-shot-at-church-in-laguna-woods-o-c-sheriff-says

 

The Buffalo Shooting Is the Latest White Rage Backlash, Brought to You by the GOP: The gunman was angry about “replacement theory.” Gee, where do we think he might have first heard about that?

https://newrepublic.com/article/166499/buffalo-shooting-great-replacement-racism

 

The Ideas Behind the Buffalo Massacre Are Now Mainstream on the Right.  Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Elise Stefanik: They’ve all revved-up loons who hate Jews, people of color, and immigrants, and some want to kill.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/buffalo-massacre-tucker-carlson/

 

From Jim Crow to Buffalo, replacement theory’s trail of destruction runs across American history: White supremacy is not defined by acts of outlandish violence. It is inflicted on America’s non-white population every day

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/16/white-supremacy-replacement-theory-civil-rights

 

Lawrence: ‘Fox News has blood on its hands’

https://news.yahoo.com/lawrence-fox-news-blood-hands-033100147.html

 

Growth, diversity, segregation, and aging in America’s largest metropolitan areas: A 2020 census portrait

https://www.brookings.edu/research/growth-diversity-segregation-and-aging-in-americas-largest-metropolitan-areas-a-2020-census-portrait/

 

The Great Replacement Theory Is Just Republican Orthodoxy Now: The vile conspiracy that led to a mass shooting in Buffalo has been normalized by leaders on the right.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166508/great-replacement-theory-stefanik-carlson

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