Indian Country’s Right to Say
No: In a true government-to-government relationship, the United States would
properly consult with tribal nations—and, crucially, tribes could reject
America’s plans. Can we ever get there?
Texas Radio Host Gets 3 Life
Sentences For Scamming Millions From Elderly Listeners: William Neil “Doc”
Gallagher's senior victims were forced to sell their homes, take loans or
borrow money from their children.
Defense begins calling witnesses
in John Dougherty and Bobby Henon bribery trial: U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L.
Schmehl ruled that the trial can continue, but partially sided with the defense
in striking down one count against Dougherty.
How the War Over Critical Race
Theory Affects Native Americans: The current backlash against teaching the
truth about our history has added fresh insult to the long legacy of injuries
to America’s Indigenous inhabitants.
Can Voters Even Dismantle the
Police? If Minneapolis had voted yes to
reshuffle the place of police in the city, it would have been an uphill battle
to enact reform.
Why books have become a
battlefield in Texas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/01/why-books-have-become-battlefield-texas/
WHILE THERE IS A SOUL IN PRISON:
REMEMBERING ATTICA, COMMITTING TO ABOLITION
Is This the Worst Place to Be
Poor and Charged with a Federal Crime?
The Southern District of Georgia does remarkably little to provide for
indigent defendants.
A Short History of Black Women
and Police Violence. Keisha N. Blain:
There is a perception among many Americans that black women are somehow
shielded from the threat of police violence.
Black cyclist brutally beaten by
white man who says he’s ‘making people nervous’ in the neighborhood
Are there any credible sources
that believe that King James of the King James Bible was a black man?
Black Moors in Scotland
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/early_times/moors.htm
Damon Galgut’s Booker
Prize–Winning Novel Examines a Betrayal in Apartheid South Africa: “The
Promise” is a portrait of a society where words lose their meaning.
Best Defunding Model We’ve Never
Heard Of
http://www.populist.com/27.18.Rollins.html
A Denny’s Experience
http://www.populist.com/27.18.DrCintli.html
Southern Discomfort
http://www.populist.com/27.18.OLeary.html
Taliban Cops Aren't as Bad as
American Cops
https://www.creators.com/read/ted-rall/09/21/taliban-cops-arent-as-bad-as-american-cops
Soul of Sweet Science
http://www.populist.com/27.18.Patterson.html
Muhammad Ali Docuseries
Chronicles the Life of 'The Greatest' Athlete and Activist: The legendary
boxer's Black nationalist and antiwar activist stands take center ring in the
latest masterpiece by Ken Burns.
http://www.populist.com/27.18.Rampell.html
Shoes on the Danube Bank
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoes_on_the_Danube_Bank
Oh, the drama | Gene Lyons
Top 5 Things Wrong with the
Mainstreamed Racist Republican “Replacement Theory”
https://www.juancole.com/2021/09/mainstreamed-republican-replacement.html
Opinion: Minority representation
and mentoring in the workplace matter
In Our Orbit: Dave Zirin’s The
Kaepernick Effect. The Nation’s sports
editor has a new book out on the politics of “taking a knee.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/dave-zirin-kaepernick-effect/
Closing Rikers Is Long Overdue:
Mass decarceration is exactly what’s needed to ensure that people aren’t simply
being shuttled from one inhumane situation to another.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/close-rikers/
Closing Rikers Island Is a Matter of Life and Death:
Isaabdul Karim wasn’t sentenced to death. In fact, he was never sentenced at
all.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/closing-rikers-island/
How Not to Talk About Race: The right wants to convince
America that critical race theory is a sinister program of indoctrination.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/talk-about-race/
The Supreme Court Wants to Make
It Even Harder to Sue Abusive Cops: Ending qualified immunity is essential to
bringing violent police officers to justice, but the nation’s highest court
refuses to weaken it.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/police-qualified-immunity/
How Thousands of Black Farmers
Were Forced Off Their Land: Black people own just 2 percent of farmland in the
United States. A decades-long history of loan denials at the USDA is a major
reason why.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/black-farmers-pigford-debt/
Undoing Racism Perfected: A
Diversified Approach
http://www.populist.com/27.20.Rollins.html
Jesse Jackson: We must save the
children
https://tribunecontentagency.com/article/jesse-jackson-we-must-save-the-children-2/
Judge Issues Powerful, Legally-Precise
Ruling in UNC Admissions Case — It Can’t Be Read in Johnston County Public
Schools
http://www.populist.com/27.20.GNichol.html
Texas Slams the Door on Trans
Kids' Playing Sports
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/texas-trans-bill/
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan |
An epidemic within the pandemic: police killings of African American men
Three Trials, One Lesson: Race,
Injustice, and Fear Still Rule. How
about we worry a little less about post-verdict demonstrations and a little
more about the fascistic hate that is on the rise in the United States?
Why Kyle Rittenhouse Is a Right-Wing Hero and Ahmaud
Arbery’s Killers Are Not: Both trials involve armed white men who deputized
themselves to kill, but the disparate response to the two cases is deeply
revealing.
Three White Supremacy Trials:
Dahlia Lithwick on Charlottesville, Rittenhouse & Arbery Murder Case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNLmgzkaAoI
4 teens to be charged with
ethnic intimidation for attacking Asian classmates on SEPTA
Bobby Henon quietly returns to
City Council after his conviction in bribery trial
Jury consultant in O.J. Simpson
case assists Kyle Rittenhouse defense team
https://www.chron.com/news/article/Jury-consultant-in-O-J-Simpson-case-assists-Kyle-16632104.php
Mixed reaction in Philadelphia
after Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty on all charges: A Temple University
professor thinks the verdict sends a message that has a ripple effect beyond
the case.
The Storm Over the American Revolution: Why has a
relatively conventional history of the War of Independence drawn such an
outraged response?
Kyle Rittenhouse Could Face
Federal Charges As Rep. Nadler Calls For DOJ Review
Kenosha Trial Gives Fascists
Open Season on Black Lives Matter and the Left
Kyle Rittenhouse’s National
Campaign for Right-Wing Martyrdom: With murder acquittal in hand, he’s touring
conservative media to reinvent himself as a victim of the culture war.
Lititz Chooses Love plans to
open an LGBTQ+ center by mid-December
Kansas City Police Officer Found
Guilty In 2019 Fatal Shooting Of Black Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxu66iolJ4I
When Denver Lost Its Mind Over
Youth Crime: How the city’s media created public panic over a crime wave that
wasn’t and dismantled Colorado’s storied juvenile justice system
Kyle Rittenhouse Didn't Act
Alone: Law Enforcement Must Be Held Accountable: The massive show of force from
40 law enforcement agencies in Kenosha didn’t make anyone safer.
Nikole Hannah-Jones on “The 1619
Project,” Teaching Critical Race Theory & White Supremacy on Trial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXmaEJ3Yd_I
Three men involved in killing of
Ahmaud Arbery found guilty: A jury has found that the three men involved in the
killing of Ahmaud Arbery, Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William Bryan
are guilty of various charges.
Racism Still Swings Votes
http://www.populist.com/27.21.Edit.html
Thanksgiving Is Another Reminder
of What America Forgot: The absence of Native perspectives in American history
books and classrooms has been remarked on for over 50 years. Will it ever
change?
MARY SANCHEZ: How do we stop a
repeat of Kyle Rittenhouse's story?
It’s time for Biden to deliver
on promises: Biden has done well in his appointments, creating a diverse
leadership team. But on one critical issue after another, there is widespread
frustration and disappointment.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/11/1/22758249/its-time-for-biden-to-deliver-on-promises
Colin Kaepernick, the Virginia
Elections, and the Canary in the Coal Mine: The recent controversy sparked by
his Netflix special’s depiction of slavery and the NFL is a microcosm of the
political battles defining our country.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kaepernick-virginia-elections/
Health Insurance Deductibles
Give Black Friday a Whole New Meaning: Better go out and get that health care
now, folks, because come January 1, you’re going to start paying for it again.
Pop's song, written and
performed by Brett Jolly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZRn5kswejM
The Radical History of Black
Cartoonists: Meet the comic artists inking on the margins.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/chicago-black-comics-culture-history
Why Daniel Boone Might Not be
Canceled: The archetypal frontiersman was unsure about the colonial project he
built.
The Deal of a Convert: What
public figures gain, or lose, when they switch religions.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/november-december-2021/the-deal-of-a-convert/
Learning While Black: The
persistent racism of state higher education funding.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/november-december-2021/learning-while-black/
Rittenhouse Trial Verdict
Divides Americans Along Partisan, Racial Lines: 43% of Americans approve of the
Wisconsin jury’s not guilty verdict, while 39% disapprove
https://morningconsult.com/2021/11/22/rittenhouse-verdict-poll/
Editorial: A teenage vigilante
has quite literally gotten away with murder
Sometimes Even Conspiracy
Theorists Have a Point: The exoneration of two men convicted of killing Malcolm
X should prompt all of us to practice our listening.
Calls Grow to Drop Murder
Charges Against Black Teen Chrystul Kizer in Kenosha
“Critical Race Theory” Is White
History: Conservatives are rebranding an inclusive, honest accounting of
American history as inherently anti-white.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/crt-race-history/
Suspect in Michigan shooting charged with terrorism and
first-degree murder
Where “Defund” Isn’t Dead: Though the politics of police
reform have shifted since a year ago, the movement to find new ways to ensure
public safety is winning a number of fights in cities across the country.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/police-reform-defund/
Philly is A Literal
WarZone|S.T.V.Philly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFNjhWQf0SQ
Temple University increases
security measures after teen killed walking with girlfriend near campus
"I know they're deploying
more patrols. That makes me feel a little bit more safe," said Temple
senior Jackson Saulino.
https://6abc.com/temple-university-security-measures-ahmir-jones-north-pihladelphia-campus/11249694/
Imagining A World Without Prisons
Or Police
How the Charlottesville Verdict
Can Inform the January 6 Committee’s Strategy: The select committee needs to
get to the bottom of what happened last January, yes. But it can also perform a
broader, and hugely important, function.
Pfizer CEO’s Jewish Past
Inspired Vaccine Work: Family of top pharmaceutical leader Albert Bourla
miraculously survived the Holocaust in Salonika, Greece.
https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/pfizer-ceos-jewish-past-inspired-vaccine-work/
'Indefensible': Outrage Over Man
in Wheelchair Fatally Shot in the Back by Arizona Cop. Richard Lee Richards was shot nine times in
the back and side by a Tucson officer, who has since been fired, earlier this
week.
The Ongoing Toll of Segregation:
Sheryll Cashin’s “White Space, Black Hood” shows how economic discrimination combines
with racial injustice in America’s housing policy.
SOUTH FULTON 101: Atlanta's New
Twin City & the Blackest City in America
https://www.khalidcares.com/101.html
Documentary “Racially Charged”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm2PxE0HMr4
Face masks help jurors tell lies
from truth
The 2021 Holberg Debate on
Identity Politics: J. Butler, C. West, G.Greenwald and S. Critchley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv-TXOfI7vg
Michael Nutter: Larry Krasner
owes an apology to the 521 families of Philly’s homicide victims |
Opinion. On Monday, the district
attorney remarked that Philadelphia does not have a crisis of violence. The
city's former mayor responds.
This area in Detroit is now
America’s first self-sustainable agrihood
The Ongoing Toll of Segregation:
Sheryll Cashin’s “White Space, Black Hood” shows how economic discrimination
combines with racial injustice in America’s housing policy.
50 years ago, the Navy promoted
its first African American flag officer: Twenty-five years after President
Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of armed forces, Samuel L. Gravely,
Jr. became the first Black rear admiral.
24 charged with forcing migrants
into 'modern-day slavery'
Local to Global by Columnist H.
Patricia Hynes: ‘The Color of Law’
https://www.recorder.com/The-color-of-law-43716469
Kyle Rittenhouse Has Gotten Away
With Murder—as Predicted: Rittenhouse’s acquittal is not a “miscarriage” of
justice, as some might claim. It is our white justice system working as
intended.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kyle-rittenhouse-verdict/
Women Are Changing the Look of
Leadership: Our visual understanding of power has always been male-coded.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/hochul-garcia-power-visual/
Giving Josephine Baker a Hero’s
Grave Won’t Bury the Truth…: About
France’s republican racism.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/josephine-baker-france-racism/
Europe’s War on Woke: Why elites
across the Atlantic are freaking out about the concept of structural racism.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/woke-europe-structural-racism/
Portland Commissioner Jo Ann
Hardesty sues city’s police union, former president and an officer for $5
million in leak of mistaken identity in hit-and-run report
Derek Chauvin Pleads Guilty To
Civil Rights Charges In George Floyd’s Death: Chauvin’s plea means he will not
face a federal trial in January, but he could end up spending more years behind
bars.
Trailblazing feminist author,
critic and activist bell hooks has died at 69
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064509418/bell-hooks-feminist-author-critic-activist-died
All About Love: New Visions
(Love Trilogy) by bell hooks
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17607.All_About_Love
Remembering Our Sister-Friend
bell hooks
Firing of Louisville detective
who fatally shot Breonna Taylor is upheld after a board review
EP 01 - The Cherokee's Eternal
Flame | Ride with Sadhguru Vlog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guyN9VlRsII
Trump uses anti-Semitic tropes
to criticize Jewish Americans - Dec 18, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqbUBvTWMh4
A Cop Is Finally in Trouble for
Using Excessive Force—Against Dogs: Why can’t we expect at least this much from
the courts when it comes to Black people?
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