Why West Side Story leaves out Black Americans
Report: High-ranking D.C. cops,
including current chief, helped criminal officers keep their jobs
ZOA Virtual Gala
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.
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.
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….
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.
GENE LYONS: Winners, losers,
it's all in your perspective
MARY SANCHEZ: Two Missouri
inmates, two tales of justice delayed
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
Can Helen LaFrance’s Mural Be
Saved after Surviving Big Recent Kentucky Tornado?
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
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