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
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
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
Jamie Stiehm: Racing away from our past with Judge
Jackson
Guns become leading cause of death for children and
adolescents in America
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
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
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
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
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?
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
Coard: Slavery never really ended because 13th Amendment
still allows it
‘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.
Who Keeps Us Safe?
Two 911 calls, six years apart, reveal the perils of policing and the
promise of alternatives.
A Jim Crow–Era Murder. A Family Secret. Decades Later,
What Does Justice Look Like? Inside a movement to reinvestigate hundreds of
racist killings.
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.
Slavery and the History of Congress's Enumerated Powers
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
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.
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.
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.
Community holds vigil, protests in wake of racially
motivated mass shooting
Churchgoers tackled, hogtied gunman after deadly Laguna
Woods church shooting
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
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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