Thursday, February 9, 2023

Criminal Justice and Racism and Ageism and other discrimination related links 021023


Masculinity and Mass Shootings: Avoiding the Glaringly Obvious: The dominant narrative about mass shootings is not shaped by parents or survivors, but by lobbyists and politicians in Washington working to appease the NRA.

https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/masculinity-and-mass-shootings

 

FTX founder Bankman-Fried posts $250M bond, will stay in Palo Alto: Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos said in U.S. District Court that Bankman-Fried, 30, “perpetrated a fraud of epic proportions.” Roos proposed strict bail terms, including a $250 mil…

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/22/ftx-founder-bankman-fried-posts-250m-bond-will-stay-in-palo-alto/

 

Edinburgh fights transphobia: On the evening of Wed 14th December, a combination of protest and direct action stopped the screening of the transphobic film, Adult Human Female at the University of Edinburgh.  Staff and students, united in solidarity, did what the University itself should have done.

https://www.rs21.org.uk/2022/12/19/edinburgh-fights-transphobia/

 

Revolutionary Reflections | Sexual violence, feminism and socialist organising

https://www.rs21.org.uk/2022/12/15/revolutionary-reflections-sexual-violence-feminism-and-socialist-organising/

 

After the Club Q shooting: building a movement for liberation

https://www.rs21.org.uk/2022/12/08/after-the-club-q-shooting-building-a-movement-for-liberation/

 

A Murder, a Confession, and a Fight for Clemency: Trevell Coleman killed a man in 1993. More than a decade later, he turned himself in—has he been punished enough?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-murder-a-confession-and-a-fight-for-clemency

 

FTX founder Bankman-Fried allowed $250M bond, house arrest

https://apnews.com/article/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-ny-court-updates-e51c72c60cd76d242a48b19b16fd9998

 

The Latest Declaration of War Against Ethnic Studies

https://www.populist.com/28.21.DrCintli.html

 

We Forgive the Talented

https://www.populist.com/28.21.Friedman.html

 

Hats Off to a Determined Woman

https://www.populist.com/28.21.Marston.html

 

Froma Harrop: The Republic will survive drag queens.  From the commentary: Wherever you stand, rest assured: The republic will survive drag queens.

https://www.wctrib.com/opinion/columns/froma-harrop-the-republic-will-survive-drag-queens

 

Kyrie Irving and the Fraught History of Our Collective Liberation

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kyrie-irving-anti-semitism-film/

 

The antisemitism Kyrie Irving spread — and why an apology isn’t enough

https://www.goshennews.com/opinion/mary-sanchez-the-antisemitism-kyrie-irving-spread-and-why-an-apology-isn-t-enough/article_7ca5a6ca-65f9-11ed-9eb9-5f86ee1f9c44.html

 

The NBA’s Hypocrisies Are Sabotaging Its Response to Kyrie Irving: The league won’t acknowledge its own culpability for the current climate of hate.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kyrie-irving-nba/

 

GENE LYONS: Classroom litter boxes, cat translators and other myths

https://www.goshennews.com/opinion/gene-lyons-classroom-litter-boxes-cat-translators-and-other-myths/article_e5f4a120-50ba-11ed-b212-9f36169a13a5.html

 

Piece de Resistance: New Opera Opposes White Supremacy.  Like L.A. Opera's season opener, an updated version of Gaeteno Donizetti's 1835 opera 'Lucia di Lammermoor' — 'Omar' — is a highly innovative work that expands the operatic medium, in terms of theme, idiom and mode of expression.

https://www.populist.com/28.22.Rampell.html

 

This Supreme Court Case Is a Case Study in Conservative Hypocrisy: Just weeks after railing against race-conscious college admissions, the justices entertained a bogus race-based argument aimed at undermining Native sovereignty.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tribal-rights-attacked/

 

When the NYPD Gets Desperate: In a high-profile murder case, New York police swabbed hundreds of Black men, illegally used a private DNA lab, and then concealed their tactics.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/chanel-lewis-karina-vetrano-nypd/

 

The Minnesota Workers Who Are Still Searching for Justice: A crew of mostly Indigenous workers faced inhumane conditions at a burial recovery site in northern Minnesota. They refuse to give up fighting for justice.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/minnesota-workers-searching-justice/

 

Larry Krasner on What Will Actually Reduce Crime: A conversation with the Philadelphia district attorney about violence, elections, and the Republican Party.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/larry-krasner-interview/

 

Women Are Half the Population, Not a Special Interest Group: Democrats do themselves no favors when they pretend “women’s issues” are a niche category of human affairs.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/womens-issues-dobbs-pink-ghetto/

 

How Sister Souljah Went From Radical Activist to Scapegoat to Blockbuster Novelist: After Bill Clinton used her to catapult himself to the presidency, the activist Souljah was sidelined. But the novelist Souljah continued to produce work that spoke to millions.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/sister-souljah-coldest-winter/

 

Reading Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble in the Age of Ron DeSantis: More than 30 years after it was published, the seminal queer theory text still has some things to say.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/judith-butler-gender-trans-1990s/

 

What the West Gets Wrong About the Rwandan Genocide: The mass killings haunt US foreign policy and distort how we understand ethnic violence.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/rwanda-genocide-us-foreign-policy/

 

Democrats Got Tough on Crime. Now There’s a Crisis of Aging Behind Bars.  California and New York legislators are trying to undo the damage caused since the 1994 Crime Bill. But elder parole isn’t working as hoped.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/aging-behind-bars/

 

Innocence is not a Defense .... "Not Guilty vs Innocent – Justice for Gerard Movement - Streamed 1 month ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0jQUThDlv4

 

First-Person Singular: Celebrating My Trans Body and the Joy of Transition.  While lawmakers attempt to strip away my identity, I respond with radical acts of self-love for myself and my community.

https://progressive.org/magazine/celebrating-my-trans-body-brinks/

 

Smart Ass Cripple: When Justice Is Too Little, Too Late.  After decades of foot-dragging, three states are finally offering reparations to the victims of eugenics programs in the early twentieth century.

https://progressive.org/magazine/when-justice-is-too-little-too-late-ervin/

 

Seeing through the Copaganda: In the land of the free, law enforcement agencies depend on mass media to win hearts and minds.

https://progressive.org/magazine/seeing-through-the-copaganda-rampell/

 

The Chicken Farmer and the Soccer Mom: Two writers, one incarcerated and the other on the outside, team up to shed light on life behind bars—and beyond.

https://progressive.org/magazine/chicken-farmer-and-soccer-mom-blackwell-cohen/

 

Reparations as a Construction Project: An interview with philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his climate justice-centered framework for ‘remaking the world.’

https://progressive.org/magazine/reparations-construction-project-taiwo-interview-tempus/

 

Why Are Women Falling Behind?

https://rall.com/2022/11/30/why-are-women-falling-behind

 

First Things First: The Truth About Fredric March. The old Hollywood actor and civil rights champion’s reputation has been tarnished by accusations of hate and racism. This calls for some sifting and winnowing.

https://progressive.org/magazine/first-things-first-the-truth-about-fredric-march-lueders/

 

Preaching Hate in Guatemala: Rightwing evangelicals in the Central American country are taking a page from religious bigots in the United States.

https://progressive.org/magazine/preaching-hate-in-guatemala-abbott/

 

Edge of Sports: The World Cup of Shame.  Qatar's event is a human rights disaster—and a spectacle of sportswashing in an age of capitalist decay.

https://progressive.org/latest/edge-of-sports-the-world-cup-of-shame-zirin/

 

The Flaws in Forensic Science

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/10/the-flaws-in-forensic-science/

 

AU Files Appeal In Case Of Ind. Catholic School Counselor Fired For Marrying A Woman

https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/au-files-appeal-in-case-of-ind-catholic-school-counselor-fired-for-marrying-a-woman/

 

Court Order Allows Colo. Teacher To Proceed With Race Discrimination Claim

https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/court-order-allows-colo-teacher-to-proceed-with-race-discrimination-claim/

 

Americans United Opposes Anti-Transgender Policies Enacted By Va. Officials

https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/americans-united-opposes-anti-transgender-policies-enacted-by-va-officials/

 

Buddhist Pilot Wins Religious Discrimination Lawsuit

https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/buddhist-pilot-wins-religious-discrimination-lawsuit/

 

Golden on Learning How to Live as a Black, Queer and Trans Artist from the South

https://inthesetimes.com/article/boston-queer-poetry-diy-photography

 

Barbara Ehrenreich’s Call for Socialist Feminism: “Feminism—despite all our efforts—is still largely a middle-class movement and ideology,” Ehrenreich wrote in 1984—words that are still relevant today.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/barbara-ehrenreichs-call-for-socialist-feminism

 

The Long Fight of Barbara Ehrenreich: Remembering the champion of the working class, scourge of the self-important, and my friend of 50 years.

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2022/09/the-long-fight-of-barbara-ehrenreich/

 

INSIDE THE WALLS | First Humanist Chaplain in North Carolina Prison

https://thehumanist.com/news/national/first-humanist-chaplain-in-north-carolina-prison

 

Is It Time to Talk About Reparations?  Humanism Beyond Inclusion

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/winter-2023/features/is-it-time-to-talk-about-reparations

 

The City That Kicked Cops Out of Schools and Tried Restorative Practices Instead: Here’s what happens when a school rethinks punishment.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-city-that-kicked-cops-out-of-schools-and-tried-restorative-practices-instead

 

When Cops Tell You Who They Are, Listen: A cartoonist illustrates police union leaders’ statements, in their own words.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/straight-shooters-police-brutality-comic-cop

 

Clemency Recipient List

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/12/30/clemency-recipient-list-2/

 

Leading Non-Partisan U.S Based Organization: Fighting & Exposing Antisemitism

https://www.stopantisemitism.org/

 

Racial Discrimination Has Mutated: When Combatting Racism Goes Wrong: Paradoxically our efforts to eliminate racial discrimination have employed the same kind of illegitimate tools that created slavery and racial segregation.

https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/racial-discrimination-has-mutated

 

Discrimination complaints at U.S. schools doubled in 2022.  Education Dept. Logs Record Number of Discrimination Complaints. Some of the highest-profile complaints show how America’s culture wars are affecting the nation’s children.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/01/us/politics/education-discrimination.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share

 

If You Think Chicago Is The Most Dangerous City To Live In, Think Again. Read More:

https://www.housedigest.com/917747/if-you-think-chicago-is-the-most-dangerous-city-to-live-in-think-again/

 

Juan González on Fighting for Racial and Social Justice in Media & History of Latinos in the U.S. – Jan 2, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uROXIlbJ8UE

 

Killeen mayor wants council to consider renaming Fort Hood Street

https://kdhnews.com/government/council/killeen/killeen-mayor-wants-council-to-consider-renaming-fort-hood-street/article_4101c96c-886f-11ed-9e74-0b19280df5a3.html

 

Anthropologist Enrique Salmon on 'kincentricity'

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ttbook-presents-kinship/id1613974196?i=1000555280071

 

Police: 6-year-old shoots teacher in Virginia classroom

https://apnews.com/article/newport-news-virginia-88dfe91f65173cbbd198a8816a21b5be

 

An animal tranquilizer is infiltrating street drugs, deepening addiction and baffling law enforcement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/health/fentanyl-xylazine-drug.html

 

Remembering the Green P.I.: On her first criminal case she went undercover as a waitress in a D.C. bar whose owner was a suspect in a double homicide.

https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/remembering-the-green-private-investigator

 

A Casualty of White Rage: My father, whether he knew it or not, was already familiar with fascism in the US, already its opponent, struggling to be free of it.

https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/a-casualty-of-white-rage

 

Tracy McCarter Is a Case Study of the Abusive Carceral State: Judge Diane Kiesel’s ruling is just one example of the way the legal system took on the role of the abuser in McCarter’s case.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tracy-mccarter-carceral-state/

 

“I Walk Into a Room and I Make People Cry”: 10 Years After Sandy Hook.  Joan Walsh spoke with Nelba Márquez-Greene, mother of slain student Ana, about the extraordinary depths of grief, love, and bravery Sandy Hook families have summoned in the decade since they lost their children.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nelba-marquez-greene-sandy-hook/

 

Affirmative Action for Lax Bros: A closer look at the Harvard admissions case now before the Supreme Court shows that it’s whites who benefit most from discrimination against Asians.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/10/30/harvard-affirmative-action-asian-americans-supreme-court/

 

A Woman’s Right to Not Be in the News: Privacy law has traditionally helped powerful men at the expense of vulnerable women. Can it be recast?

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/10/30/digital-intimate-right-to-privacy-law/

 

Do Prisons Need to Be Hellholes?  Thanks to bipartisan efforts, the number of incarcerated Americans has shrunk dramatically. The next step for reform is to treat inmates more humanely.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/10/30/do-prisons-need-to-be-hell-holes/

 

The great unpunishment’: How, why so many Holocaust perpetrators got away with it.  Fewer than 600 of those who enacted the Holocaust received heavy sentences after WWII. David Wilkinson’s docu explores how the mass of Nazi criminals, collaborators escaped justice

https://www.timesofisrael.com/lack-of-punishment-for-holocaust-perpetrators-examined-in-british-made-documentary/?fbclid=IwAR1n400bFloCrT-a3rs64SSBIkZlSaY-U6Ez_IOoNPtpg7hltckpKyg4JdQ

 

School shooting updates: Police say 6-year-old used mother’s gun — and injured teacher’s actions ‘saved lives’

https://www.pilotonline.com/news/crime/dp-nw-richneck-press-conference-20230109-ygaiwsecrvg4po3rkjba7ap4bm-story.html

 

Is Gradualism a Tranquilizing Drug?  The vision that Dr. King articulated for this country is not just one of hope but for the political, economic and social transformation.

https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/gradualism

 

“Upstream From Racism Itself is Greed:” Ben Jealous on Reconciling America | Amanpour and Company – Jan 10, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKJc1Hkbr20

 

Central Bucks bans Pride flags and other staff ‘advocacy’ amid federal investigation into treatment of LGBTQ students: Much of Tuesday’s discussion focused on Pride flags — which the district’s superintendent, Abram Lucabaugh, had previously likened to political symbols.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/cbsd-school-board-vote-teacher-advocacy-pride-flag-ban-aclu-20230111.html

 

Getting to Nonviolence: The soil is ripe for pioneering peace activists and peace journalists to rock the world.

https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/getting-to-nonviolence

 

Passing of Adolfo Kaminsky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Kaminsky

 

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, Repairers of the Breach and the Kairos Center have been a part of building a movement towards a Third Reconstruction for years.

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/join-us-as-we-build-the-third-reconstruction/

 

Black Men Teach: The ubiquitous evidence that Black lives are more at risk is dismissed, because conservative social policy is not evidence-based, but ideologically comfortable.

https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/black-men-teach

 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights: No Justice, No Peace.  The UDHR guarantees our rights, regardless of nationality, place of residence, gender, national or ethnic origin, religion, language, or any other status.

https://www.laprogressive.com/social-justice/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

 

Supreme Court to decide how far employers must go to accommodate workers' religious beliefs

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/13/supreme-court-usps-religion-de-minimis/11046608002/

 

Biden reflects on MLK in sermon at his Atlanta church: 'Progress is never easy, but it's always possible'

Sunday would have been the civil rights leader's 94th birthday.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-reflect-martin-luther-kings-life-sermon-ebenezer/story?id=96436071

 

LAPD Death by Taser: Los Angeles Police Department forcibly restrained and repeatedly used a taser on 31-year-old Keenan Anderson—a high school English teacher

https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/lapd-death-by-taser

 

Five Years after Lauding the Work of Claudia Jones: This week marks the five-year anniversary of the publication of my essay, “Why Claudia Jones Will Always Be More Relevant Than Ta-Nehisi Coates”

https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/five-years-after-lauding-the-work-of-claudia-jones

 

The absurdity of deeming a Dr. Seuss story decrying racism as inappropriate for kids: What happened in a Ohio classroom is sadly symbolic of the way many talk about Martin Luther King Jr. and the injustices he fought against.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/mentioning-racism-halts-reading-sneetches-ohio-school-rcna65774

 

Poor People's Campaign Petition Congress to Truly Honor MLK Legacy | Press Conference – Jan 16, 2023

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

 

CBS News Report: Handcuffs in Hallways - 1 month ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zc_R5WaolY

 

Fla. rejects AP Black history class, saying it ‘lacks educational value’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/01/19/florida-desantis-ap-african-american-history/

 

Bill W. (2012 documentary) - 5 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBS4XiGAMeo

 

Keenan Anderson: BLM Cofounder Patrisse Cullors Demands Justice for Cousin’s Death After LAPD Tasing – Jan 20, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT-EWVL73s4

 

Keenan Anderson’s family files $50-million legal claim after tasing by LAPD

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-20/keenan-andersons-family-files-50-million-legal-claim-against-la-after-he-died-following-tasering-by-lapd

 

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes attempted to flee US, prosecutors claim

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64347162

 

Gunman kills 10 near Lunar New Year festival in California

https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-shooting-updates-24c38e3f3ddfbe2c31a9eabe8635dab2

 

Additional classified items found in Biden's Delaware home during Justice Department search, attorney says.  The search was prompted by the White House, not the Justice Department, according to a White House official and a source familiar with the matter.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/additional-classified-items-found-bidens-delaware-home-justice-departm-rcna66868

 

Feds seize more than $600 million in assets from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried: Court filing

The assets were seized by the government this month, the filing shows.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/feds-seize-600-million-assets-ftx-founder-sam/story?id=96585348

 

Keith Davis, Jr. and Black Political Corruption: Baltimore police continued to falsely accuse an innocent man when they shot and nearly killed him after the Freddie Gray uprisings.

https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/what-happened-to-keith-davis

 

Racism Is an American Plague: For an equitable civilization to become viable, we need urgent relief from this plague

https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/racism-is-an-american-plague

 

Did the L.A. Times Just Strike Again?  The Times owes the family of Keenan Anderson and everyone else who participated in that press conference Tuesday an apology

https://www.laprogressive.com/the-media-in-the-united-states/l-a-times-just-strike-again

 

How Many Guns Make You Safe?  He had the right to carry four handguns, an AR-15 and a 12-guage shotgun into a supermarket in Atlanta - and, oh yeah, he was wearing body armor.

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/how-many-guns-make-you-safe

 

Banning Critical Race Theory to Appease Tyrants: The tyrants enjoy bringing misery to progressive faculty committed to teaching the democratic principles of freedom and equality.

https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/appeasing-tyrants

 

Healthcare Against Black Americans: A History of Medical Maltreatment Continues to Kill Black Americans.  More than 25% of survey respondents have avoided care fearing how they would be treated, and nearly one third reported that they had been treated unfairly.

https://www.laprogressive.com/healthcare-issues/healthcare-against-black-americans

 

Honoring Keenan Anderson: We need to call upon the law enforcement community to re-evaluate tasers, read the research and determine whether the risk outweighs the benefit.

https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/honoring-keenan-anderson

Ye Is a Right-Wing Tool—and Black People Know It: Anti-Semitic hatred has become entangled with many other forms of hatred; Ye is carrying water for all of them.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ye-anti-semitism-racism/

 

Pakistan’s Transgender Community Rises Up: In the wake of changing legal standards recognizing the self-determination of gender identity, transgender Pakistanis are taking steps to live openly.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/transgender-pakistan/

 

In the Windy City: The making of Mexican Chicago.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mike-amezcua-mexican-chicago/

 

California dance-studio shooting suspect kills himself

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-22/la-me-monterey-park-mass-shooting

 

Atlanta protest over police killing of activist turns violent

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/21/1150632964/atlanta-protest-police-killing-activist

 

Is Dr. King’s Message Yours as Well?  Through deed and action, Black and Jewish civil rights leaders espoused a view that Black Americans — in truth, all peoples — have the same infinite worth that white Americans do.

https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/kings-message

 

Professor slams DeSantis for quashing Black history education – Jan 23, 2023

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

 

How to Teach the History Behind "Emancipation": The best thing about Fuqua‘s Emancipation was its rediscovery of the life of Gordon/Peter, whose image has survived because of the well-known photograph.

https://hollywoodprogressive.com/film/emancipation

 

King Advocated Disobeying Unjust Laws: Dr. King believed that society has a responsibility to disobey unjust laws. And right now in America, we have become the land of unjust laws and policies

https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/king-advocated-disobeying-unjust-laws

 

Is GOP Racism Fueling Police Killings? – Jan 27, 2023  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TwMkFLczhk

 

Since the death of George Floyd has much Changed?  Justice for Gerard Movement. – Jan 27, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXoamk4NinE

 

A Marxist-Humanist Statement in Support and Defense of Transgender Rights

https://imhojournal.org/articles/a-marxist-humanist-statement-in-support-and-defense-of-transgender-rights/

 

How Should Men Apologize for Sexual Misconduct?  Scott Stringer’s lawsuit against a woman who described being sexually harassed by him is a case study in what not to do.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/scott-stringer-sexual-misconduct/

 

Rikers Just Had Its Deadliest Year. Two Authors Explain Why It’s Still Open.  A conversation with Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau about their new book on Rikers Island, a jail system plagued by decades of institutional inertia.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/qa-rikers-rayman-blau/

 

Tyre Nichols’ Death: A Complete Timeline of Events

https://katiecouric.com/news/what-we-know-about-tyre-nichols-death-so-far/

 

VP Harris to attend Nichols funeral as prosecutors weigh more charges

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/memphis-prosecutor-sees-more-charges-possible-nichols-case-2023-01-31/

 

Black taxpayers more likely to face IRS audits: Black taxpayers are three times as likely as other taxpayers to face Internal Revenue Service audits,

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/politics/black-americans-irs-tax-audits.html

 

Stopping Acts That Defy Humanity: Like mass shooters, brutal cops are not "monsters who appear out of thin air" but (almost always) pathological men with a thirst for armed power "under color of law.

https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/stopping-acts-that-defy-humanity

 

“The 1619 Project” continues to provoke national debate about race and history.

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20230126&instance_id=83687&nl=the-morning&productCode=NN&regi_id=168579403&segment_id=123533&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F3bfa83ca-9134-596a-8226-9db86e939b24&user_id=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496

 

Mourners call for end to police violence at Tyre Nichols funeral

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tyre-nichols-funeral-draws-civil-rights-leaders-us-vice-president-2023-02-01/

 

College Board slammed over changes to African American studies course

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3839583-college-board-slammed-over-changes-to-african-american-studies-course/

 

Living Myth Podcast 316 - The Cloak of Humanity – Feb 1, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQEwMrK2pTA

 

Stop Red State Efforts to Expand the Death Penalty: Florida’s death penalty is a mess, as are all other systems of execution in the US. Yet it is obvious that DeSantis and most of his Republic cronies do not care.

https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/expand-the-death-penalty

 

"REVERSING WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS AND RESTORING FREEDOM AND LIVES" w/ Elizabeth Franklin-Best – Feb 3, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cae_43VyGdI

 

Officer shot at public library remains in critical condition

https://apnews.com/article/tyre-nichols-tennessee-memphis-crime-shootings-a8141d865cc856d6c3f3eb28a303d3c3

 

Will America Ever Admit Police Violence Exists? – Feb 3, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5-mWCH4YdQ

 

Utah therapist on new anti-trans bills: 'They are operating from a place of fear and ignorance' – Feb 5, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWYH7LtpXPo

 

6th Memphis police officer fired in relation to Tyre Nichols beating

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/04/preston-hemphill-fired-memphis-police/

 

A Black lawmaker in Oregon was stopped twice by police on his way home from the state Capitol this week, an all-too-familiar occurrence he said highlights the tendency of law enforcement officers to disproportionately target people of color.

https://statesnewsroom.salsalabs.org/eveningwrap_alwayswatching?wvpId=35444be8-8984-4331-8f25-52703c68cda8

 

The Meaning of African American Studies: The discipline emerged from Black struggle. Now the College Board wants it to be taught with barely any mention of Black Lives Matter.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/q-and-a/the-meaning-of-african-american-studies

 

Tema Okun Speaks: The author of a profoundly consequential document says people are getting it all wrong

https://badnews.substack.com/p/tema-okun-speaks-the-author-of-a

 

Exactly Why and How Republicans Hate Ilhan Omar: It has literally nothing to do with antisemitism.

https://theintercept.com/2023/02/03/ilhan-omar-house-foreign-affairs-committee/

 

Black Americans Are Much More Likely to Face Tax Audits, Study Finds

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/politics/black-americans-irs-tax-audits.html

 

The American Faith in Violence: American's faith in violence and the guns that both embody and symbolize the power of this violence to impose their will on others, is naïve.

https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/american-faith-in-violence

 

Which Way Forward for the Black Lives Matter Movement?  From mass protests to policy change, Christina López’s pamphlet “Which way forward for the Black Lives Matter Movement?” assesses the struggle for justice

https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/which-way-forward-for-the-black-lives-matter-movement

 

Liberty and Slavery: The South Keeps Keeping Blacks Down.  Southern Whites, from colonial times, saw defending the right to own slaves as a defense of liberty.

https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/liberty-and-slavery

 

Chicago native makes history, becomes highest-ranking person of color in Illinois National Guard

https://abc7chicago.com/major-general-rodney-boyd-illinois-national-guard-highest-ranking-person-of-color-black-history/12771373/

 

Baseball Legend Jackie Robinson Was Court-Martialed for Refusing to Move to the Back of a Bus

https://www.military.com/history/baseball-legend-jackie-robinson-was-court-martialed-refusing-move-back-of-bus.html?ESRC=mr_230206.nl

 

Officer shot at public library remains in critical condition

https://apnews.com/article/tyre-nichols-tennessee-memphis-crime-shootings-a8141d865cc856d6c3f3eb28a303d3c3

 

Civil rights activist honors his father’s legacy with a call to action against poverty, racism, and violence

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/02/as-u-s-reacts-to-another-police-killing-mlk-iii-laments-the-strides-we-havent-made/

 

Yale honors Black girl who police were called on for spraying lantern flies: The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale accepted Bobbi Wilson’s donation of her lantern fly collection.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/yale-honors-black-girl-police-called-spraying-lantern-flies-rcna68463

 

FACT SHEET: The Biden-Harris Administrations Work to Make Our Communities Safer and Advance Effective, Accountable Policing

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/02/07/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administrations-work-to-make-our-communities-safer-and-advance-effective-accountable-policing/

 

A legacy of love, faith, and family: Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King.  The love shared by Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King lives on through the family of their oldest son.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/08/magazine/legacy-love-faith-family-martin-luther-king-iii-arndrea-waters-king/

 

Admitted white supremacist pleads guilty to El Paso Walmart shooting charges

https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/crime/2023/02/08/patrick-crusius-pleads-guilty-el-paso-walmart-shooting-hate-crime-charges/69881963007/

 

Doug Emhoff calls on U.N. to help combat antisemitism, an 'epidemic of hate' – Feb 9, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7KcwUcewng

 

TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY MARCHING BAND MAKES HISTORY WINNING FIRST GRAMMY AWARD

https://www.blackenterprise.com/tennessee-state-university-marching-band-makes-history-winning-first-grammy-award/

 

BLACK-OWNED GAME ‘GROWING UP BLACK MEMES’ LANDS DEAL WITH TARGET

https://www.blackenterprise.com/the-black-owned-game-you-need-this-year/

 

FBI charges neo-Nazi leader in plot to attack Baltimore power grid

https://www.reuters.com/legal/fbi-arrest-two-including-neo-nazi-leader-plot-attack-baltimore-grid-2023-02-06/

 

Joe Rogan Draws Backlash For Antisemitic Comments—Spotify Silent On Latest Controversy From Its Biggest Podcaster

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2023/02/08/joe-rogan-draws-backlash-for-antisemitic-comments-spotify-silent-on-latest-controversy-from-its-biggest-podcaster/

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