The Free Black
Minuteman Recognized for Gallantry at the Battle of Bunker Hill
Rep. Angie Craig
attacked in her D.C. apartment building: The Minnesota Democrat's office said
she was not seriously injured and there was no evidence the attack was
politically motivated. A suspect was later arrested.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-angie-craig-was-attacked-apartment-building-rcna69948
New Zealand just
found 3.5 tons of cocaine floating in the Pacific
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/08/new-zealand-cocaine-bust/
We as parents
grands principals teachers and society in general have FAILED! [The Washington
Post] How Richneck Elementary failed to stop a 6-year-old from shooting his
teacher
S.J.Res.4 - A
joint resolution removing the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights
Amendment.
H.J.Res.25 -
Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment.
Surviving Jim
Crow: The actors under the direction of Zadia Ife so adeptly bring their
characters to life that you can easily imagine six women going down the these
paths life and their culture had set for them.
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/stage/surviving-jim-crow
Isabel Wilkerson:
Killing of Tyre Nichols is about caste, not race – Feb 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ_paYxeqYk
Trailer for
Fighting for Our Lives: VA Minority Health Care Professionals Talk COVID-19
Vaccine – 1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN0-Var1pfM
3 killed, 5
wounded at Michigan State campus shooting; suspect dead
Rampaging U-Haul
driver kills one, injures eight others during wild police chase through
Brooklyn
'There can be no
mercy for you': Buffalo shooter sentenced to life in prison
Showing Up All
Black and Excellent: There were signs corporate America is grudgingly realizing
there are more people of conscience who support diversity and equity than MAGA
hateful gargoyles, and there's money in it.
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/showing-up-all-black-and-excellent
Right Wing
‘Whitewashes’ Public School History Curriculum: A fight over new history
curriculum standards in Virginia is part of a nationwide campaign to undermine
public schools and prevent educators from teaching the truth about America’s
inequality.
https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/public-school-history-curriculum
Biden takes new
steps to address racial inequality in gov’t
Buffalo grocery
store mass shooter apologizes for racist attack and receives sentence of life
in prison
Rep. Anna Paulina
Luna, who claimed Jewish heritage, instead reportedly had a grandfather who
fought for the Nazis
Tate County, MS,
shooting spree leaves six dead, shooter in custody
All 5 ex-Memphis
officers plead not guilty in the beating death of Tyre Nichols
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/17/1157756023/memphis-tyre-nichols-police-officers-court-charges
Uhuru Solidarity
Movement
https://preview.mailerlite.com/l2a6p1z3q6/2151659520315625475/g5q6/
Reparations in
Action LIVE: Solidarity with Black Power 96.3 FM – Feb 17, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk2b0G8lSjY
African People's
Education & Defense Fund
As the Pandemic
Swept America, Deaths in Prisons Rose Nearly 50 Percent: The first
comprehensive data on prison fatalities in the Covid era sheds new light on
where and why prisoners were especially vulnerable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/19/us/covid-prison-deaths.html
A Very American
Tragedy: The downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried and the FTX cryptocurrency exchange
leads to a search for new role models.
https://www.populist.com/29.03.Crowther.html
Normalization of
Killings is not normal; neither is Invisibilization
https://www.populist.com/29.03.Cintli.html
California Prison
Spending Grows as Incarcerated Population Falls
https://www.populist.com/29.03.Sandronsky.html
Just How
Segregated Is Los Angeles? And do
proposed fixes make things better or worse?
https://www.laprogressive.com/los-angeles-2/how-segregated-is-los-angeles
This week, two
Jewish men were shot and wounded on their way home from Jewish worship services
over a 24-hour period in Los Angeles.
Black people live
every day with hurdles that former health chief tried to diminish
Pa. shouldn’t
wait any longer to abolish the death penalty | Friday Morning Coffee
Celebrating Dr.
King
https://pridepublishinggroup.com/2023/01/20/celebrating-dr-king/
Honor Black and African American History Month with the
Global Philadelphia Association!
https://mailchi.mp/globalphiladelphia/gpasupportsukraine-1295624?e=d233cdc453
I can neither be
silent nor live when the last remnants of the Jewish people, whose I represent,
are being killed
https://www.jhi.pl/en/articles/i-can-neither-be-silent-nor-live-szmul-zygielbojm-anniversary,2129
The Monument to
Szmul Zygielbojm - 1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iafWNwpEQUQ
The Wall (Mur)
Life and death of Szmul Zygielbojm - 2 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LCb_sZUI70
Teach Black
History — Don’t Ban It: Politicians fire teachers and ban books, but more and
more Americans are standing up against this effort to erase our history.
https://www.populist.com/29.04.Rogers.html
‘Equity’ is Not a
Four-Letter Word
https://www.populist.com/29.04.Young.html
Mary Sanchez: The
arrogance to expect ‘calm’ when police kill
https://tribunecontentagency.com/article/mary-sanchez-the-arrogance-to-expect-calm-when-police-kill/
JESSE JACKSON: We
Cannot Accept Mass Murder
https://www.washingtoninformer.com/jesse-jackson-we-cannot-accept-mass-murder/
Guns, Hate &
Roses
https://www.populist.com/29.04.Cintli.html
A Democratic Duty
https://www.populist.com/29.04.GNichol.html
Stiehm: Blood on
many Memphis hands: To be Black at a traffic stop
The Police Murder
of Tyre Nichols and the Attack on Black History
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/2/2/the_police_murder_of_tyre_nichols
What’s more
dangerous, a gang member or an activist? Documentary ‘The Holly’ shows how
police punish both.
Sticks and
Stones: You might as well take a magic marker and strike the word “field” from
your Oxford English Dictionary.
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/sticks-and-stones
Five principles
for making state and local reparations plans reparative
https://www.epi.org/blog/five-principles-for-making-state-and-local-reparations-plans-reparative/
Nipsey Hussle’s
killer gets 60 years to life in prison
https://apnews.com/article/nipsey-hussle-killer-sentencing-3ff5d976d04aaeff709a82cc40c7b84c
Journalist and
9-year-old among 3 dead in Florida shootings, sheriff says; suspect arrested
Kanye
West-inspired antisemitic harassment and hate speech spreads in US:
report. Two members of a notorious white
nationalist group held ‘Ye is Right’ campaigns at college campuses in January,
as the Anti-Defamation League reports that Jewish groups and centers have been
besieged by pro-Kanye West harassment
Racist Violence
in the Age of the Apocalypse: In an age of apocalyptic violence, memory is
erased, historical consciousness banished from schools, and critical ideas are
labeled as unpatriotic.
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/racist-violence
The Black Press,
as Relevant as Ever: When narratives are told from the perspective of a Black
lens, perhaps there are no two sides to a story.
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-media-in-the-united-states/black-press-as-relevant-as-ever
San Jose
firefighter spent years in Marines, but sexual abuse, racism, swastikas in
city’s fire department drove her out: lawsuit.
Woman dreamed of rising to battalion chief, suit claims
Y'all's Racism Is
Showing If You Don't Like Rules: Arriving in the state Capitol to be sworn in
earlier this month, Pearson wore his hair in a combed-out Afro and a crisp
black dashiki, a West African symbol of Black pride often donned on special
occasions.
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/racism-is-showing
Calling on
Pasadena to “Drop Cops from Traffic Stops”: People seemed eager to do something
about the numerous petty traffic stops targeting Black men that too frequently
turn deadly.
https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/drop-cops-from-traffic-stops
Murder Rate of
Death Penalty States Compared to Non-Death Penalty States
CIVIL RIGHTS
MARTYRS
https://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/civil-rights-memorial/civil-rights-martyrs
Chicago Police
Assassinate Black Panther Party Leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in Pre-Dawn
Raid
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/dec/4
Why Malcolm X's
Family is Suing the FBI, NYPD, and CIA | Time
https://time.com/6257699/malcolm-x-lawsuit-family-fbi-nypd-cia
Lutheran Leader
Calls for Excommunication of White Nationalists
Authorities
arrest L.A. shooter ginned up on eliminationist rhetoric who targeted Jews
The Way of Death
in US Prisons: If we don’t care about prisoners on any normal day, then why
would we care about them when a pandemic is spreading through the system?
https://www.laprogressive.com/prison-reform-2/death-in-us-prisons
Every step of the
American legal process is imbued with systemic racism
Medieval
synagogue that predates the Inquisition found hidden under Spanish nightclub: A
highly significant find, this 14th-century synagogue is a rare example of
Jewish religious life in medieval Spain.
The Jewish
Costume of Morocco
Art exhibition
shows Jewish and Muslim women in Morocco sharing a common culture
Moroccan Jewish
Bride
https://jwa.org/media/moroccan-jewish-bride
Paris exhibition
sheds light on the now-departed Jews of Morocco
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1739841/lifestyle
Visiting Jewish
Morocco
https://moroccanjews.org/home/teachers-guides/sixth-grade/
History of
Moroccan Jews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Moroccan_Jews
Morocco:
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/morocco-nineteenth-and-twentieth-centuries
Jews and Morocco:
10 Fascinating Historical Facts
https://aish.com/jews-and-morocco-10-fascinating-historical-facts/
Rapid demise of
‘Dilbert’ is no surprise to those watching
https://apnews.com/article/kansas-city-business-d1d88fe02461930d9c2ad70e1f55b136
Is it "OK to
be white"?
https://popular.info/p/is-it-ok-to-be-white?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Joanna McClinton
elected first female speaker of the Pa. House as Mark Rozzi steps down
https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2023/02/pa-house-speaker-mark-rozzi-resigns/
Congress
Shouldn’t Clap for Tyre Nichols’s Parents—They Should Apologize: Many of the
people rising for Nichols’s parents during the State of the Union didn’t do
enough to prevent his death—and quite a few did worse than that.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/state-of-the-union-tyre-nichols-parents/
Race and Class:
The Beginnings of an Argument. Some
personal and theoretical reflections on intersectionality and its discontents.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/race-class-intersectionality-atlanta/
When Black Women
Are Punished for Winning Too Much: Every time we get an unvarnished look-see at
how the awards sausages get made, voters unwittingly confirm that racism and
misogyny are key ingredients.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/beyonce-black-women-grammys/
The Unfulfilled
Promise: Peniel Joseph’s history of the three Reconstructions.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/peniel-joseph-third-reconstruction/
News from the
States Evening Wrap March 1, 2023
ADL Crowdfunding
Report: How Bigots and Extremists Collect and Use Millions in Online Donations
Murder and
Extremism in the United States in 2022
https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2022
Signature
Synagogue Program
https://philadelphia.adl.org/signature-synagogue-program/
From Pandemics to
Presidents, How Old Is Too Old? Our
culture tends to worship youth, beauty, vitality, and, to put it plainly,
“hotness.” But often, what we need most is wisdom and experience.
https://www.laprogressive.com/senior-community/president-how-old-is-too-old
Forcing
Californians into mental health treatment would get easier with proposed
legislation. Two new bills would
overhaul what advocates say is a broken mental health system, and attempt to
address people left to languish on California streets.
The GOP is
Offering One Thing…A Torn Apart America – Mar 2, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NIn06bPrgE
MARY SANCHEZ:
Want to change police culture? Look to the sergeants
Breathing Free,
Living Free
https://www.populist.com/29.05.Cintli.html
What Police
Reform Should Look Like
https://rall.com/2023/02/03/what-police-reform-should-look-like
'Killing Country': The latest from Kaepernick Media is a
timely deep dive into one of the deadliest police jurisdictions in America.
https://www.populist.com/29.05.Rampell.html
What's More
Dangerous, a Gang Member or an Activist? Documentary 'The Holly' Shows How
Police Punish Both.
This Women's
History Month, We Won't Renegotiate Our Place in the Economy: This Women’s
History Month, out of touch lawmakers are rolling out economic plans that would
set women back generations. Not this time!
https://www.laprogressive.com/gender-discrimination/womens-history-month
Ron DeSantis’s
Educational Policies Come Straight from the Fascist Playbook: DeSantis views
academic freedom and freedom of speech as liabilities to be stamped out, not
unlike what happened in Nazi Germany.
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/fascist-playbook
'Sacred ground':
Joe Biden marks 58th anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma
In Selma, Biden
presses for voting rights on 'Bloody Sunday' anniversary
White contractors
wouldn’t remove Confederate statues. So a Black man did it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/02/devon-henry-confederate-statues-richmond/
Whoopi Goldberg's
"Racism" Comment Called For Clarifying Questions: Goldberg
apologized, noting that "On today's show, I said the Holocaust is not
about race but about man's inhumanity to man. I should have said it is
both."
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/whoopi-goldberg
Robert Kraft
forms partnership with Brandeis University to combat antisemitism: The owner of
the New England Patriots has formed a new partnership with Brandeis University
to fight antisemitism.
Why America Needs
to Break Its Addiction to Long Prison Sentences: Shorter sentences will end
prison crowding and even reduce crime.
Uhuru
Solidarity. Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off
Africa! Take Action! Stop FBI Attacks on
the African People's Socialist Party!
https://www.uhurusolidarity.org/
2023 USM National
Convention: Save the date for the Uhuru Solidarity Movement National
Convention! Taking place in St. Louis, MO on March 11-12, 2023.
https://www.uhurusolidarity.org/events/2023-usm-national-convention
More than a dozen
Memphis fire and police personnel charged in beating of Tyre Nichols: The city
is expected to release 20 hours of video and audio from the Jan. 7 beating
after its investigation.
FACT SHEET:
President Biden’s Budget Makes Our Communities Safer and Combats Crime
Your Short Friend
Might Be A Psychopath, Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You: Big surprises really do
come in small packages.
Ohio Army veteran
diagnosed with schizophrenia receives $239K settlement after he was beaten by
jail officer
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2023-03-06/army-veteran-beaten-settlement-9388770.html
After Breonna
Taylor death, feds find police discrimination
Justice
Department to review Memphis Police Department following Tyre Nichols' death
A public report
will be released upon the conclusion of the review.
While the world
has been distracted....change has been happening anyway - 2 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sECdk6nu_Uk
Secretive doors
and snugs
https://mailchi.mp/atlasobscura/the-feminist-history-behind-the-ladies-entrance?e=12cd70fff7
Republican Leader
CRUMBLES on Live TV after Hypocrisy is EXPOSED – Mar 12, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pliZgodVBQw
What We Talk
About When We Talk About Trans Rights: Masha Gessen on the public discourse
over trans identity, the real reasons for the culture war over gender, and how
well-meaning people can do better.
6 Women From
History Who Deserve Biopics Like, Yesterday
https://katiecouric.com/culture/entertainment/inspiring-women-in-history-who-deserve-movies/
Haym Salomon, Spy
and Financier of the American Revolution.
“Why can
Conservatives have a 1st Amendment Right to tell lies, but Liberals are WOKE
for trying to tell the TRUTH and should not be allowed to express their
opinion? What is now known as North and
South America was populated by native inhabitants when European "ILLEGAL
IMIGRANTS" came and claimed the land for the crown and themselves. They killed and intimidated the native
inhabitants to establish ‘WHITE NATIONALISM’.
This is WOKE and we cannot discuss it because it might make some WHITE
NATIONALISTS feel bad? JEWS don't belong
here, even though if it weren't for Chaim Salomon, a wealthy JEW who gave his
entire fortune to George Washington to win OUR independence there would have
been NO USA.” – Rich Fine
https://www.thoughtco.com/haym-salomon-biography-4178500
'It's just common
sense': Biden signs new executive action expanding gun background checks
San Francisco
supervisors open to reparations proposal
https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2023/03/15/reparations-proposal-san-francisco
Reparations, One
Family at a Time: Perhaps we’re single, or childless by choice or circumstance.
Whatever the situation, some of us are in a position to make reparations on a
personal level.
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/reparations-one-family-at-a-time
Dark Side of
Religion: Highly religious countries and states have higher crime rates;
Religion has a dark side. This prompted the founders to create our politically
secular nation.
https://www.laprogressive.com/science-and-religion-2/dark-side-of-religion
7 deputies and 3
others face murder charges in a Black man's death at mental hospital
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/16/1163933779/irvo-otieno-police-killing-virginia-hospital
Noa Tishby:
Israeli-American Special Envoy for Antisemitism and Delegitimization. Author.
Actress. Producer. Activist.
Florida man
serving 400-year prison sentence walks free after being exonerated of robbery
charge
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sidney-holmes-exonerated-400-year-sentence-florida/
Don’t Disappear
Us. In conjunction with William
Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows. at The
Broad
Oculus Hall at
The Broad: 221 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012. A Performance By Patrisse Cullors
The Backlash to
Black Power: They are aggressively carrying out the calculated plan to derail
the political and economic agenda of Black folks.
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/backlash-to-black-power
Paul Robeson, the
Great Forerunner: Paul Robeson, son of a formerly enslaved man, was nothing
less than amazing.
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/paul-robeson-the-great-forerunner
Former NBA Star
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf’s Long, Strange Journey: The Showtime documentary ‘Stand’
chronicles the life and controversial career of the former Denver Nuggets
guard.
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/film/mahmoud-abdul-rauf
Why we need to
rethink policing in mental health crises
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/why-we-need-rethink-policing-mental-health-crises
Supervisor in
Tyre Nichols’ death retired before firing
American Atheists
– Exercising their First Amendment rights.
https://www.atheists.org/news/
To AN ImperFect
UNION – Mar 20, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLk9LpH50Ys
Orthodox Jewish
leaders talk antisemitism with White House officials: The meeting comes amid a
rise in antisemitic hate crimes
Anthropologist
Enrique Salmon on 'kincentricity'
Depression can
often make it difficult for us to sustain social justice movements
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/a-call-for-self-care
World Athletics
bans transgender women from competing in female world ranking events
https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/65051900
Parents of gunman
to stand trial in Oxford school shooting, Michigan appeals court orders
The Reid
Technique and Wrongful Convictions..... The Robert Greathouse Story – Mar 24,
2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIREElYLQ0
The 2023 People’s
Platform for a Just Philadelphia: A
vision for our city that prioritizes communities over corporations and centers
the needs of all Philadelphians.
https://ajustphiladelphia.org/
Rubin on
antisemitic comments on George Soros from the GOP – Mar 24, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVmgZAcqGOY
Imagine: How many
more men, women, and children must die before we do more than offer “thoughts
and prayers”?
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/imagine
Police searching
for New Jersey state trooper missing in Delaware County, Pa. Jason Dare, 46, was last seen shortly before
7 p.m. Sunday at Route 352 and Yearsley Mill Road in Middletown Township.
Kentucky governor
vetoes sweeping GOP transgender measure: Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, said
the bill "rips away the freedom of parents to make medical decisions for
their children."
Circle of Courage
https://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/cardev/gr9_found/courage_poster.pdf
All Schools
Should Teach Ethnic Studies: Ethnic studies acknowledge the pivotal role of
race and racism in society, along with gender, class, sexual orientation, and
other identities.
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/teach-ethnic-studies
How Did Cubans
and Their Government Collaborate on the Family Code? Revolutionary Havana youth describe the
process of building legislation in dialogue with the people.
https://www.laprogressive.com/latin-america-2/-cubans-and-their-government
Tennessee Made
Gun Laws Looser, Focused Mainly on Attacking Gay People Before Nashville School
Shooting: GOP Governor Bill Lee, who signed those bills into law, would now
like to offer his thoughts and prayers.
Netanyahu
suspends judicial reform, protests to rage on: Pro, anti-government protests
were ongoing in Jerusalem • Labor union cancels planned strike after
Netanyahu's announcement
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/live-updates-735544
California’s
LGBTQ+ kids in the crosshairs as a surge of bills targeting gender identity
reaches record high. “If I had to hide
who I am, and act like someone I’m not — who would I even be?”
New Orleans teens
solve “impossible” mathematical equation
https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2023/03/28/new-orleans-teens-solve-impossible-mathematical-equation/
Review: Jews and
Muslims in the White Supremacist Conspiratorial Imagination. What struck the authors was the social reward
that anti-Semitism and Islamophobia offers around the clock on international
social media
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/white-supremacist-conspiratorial-imagination
Not Berlin in
1939 but Montreal in 2023
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10226824357586833&id=1587979975&sfnsn=mo&mibextid=RUbZ1f
Mark Ridley
Thomas, Convicted of Seven Charges: Mark Ridley-Thomas was convicted of
conspiracy, bribery, honest services mail fraud and four counts of honest
services wire fraud
https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/mark-ridley-thomas-convicted
Vatican rejects
Discovery Doctrine: A Vatican statement said the papal bulls, or decrees, 'did
not adequately reflect the equal dignity and rights of Indigenous peoples'
https://ictnews.org/news/vatican-rejects-discovery-doctrine
When Force-Feeding
Is Torture: After years of litigation, The Nation and Type Investigations have
acquired footage of a force-feeding at a federal prison. It shows treatment
that may amount to torture.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/force-feeding-torture-prison-video/
Mind and Body:
The domineering logic of ballet.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ballet-alice-robb-ellen-oconnell-whittet/
Ringleader: The
cult of J. Edgar Hoover.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/hoover-fbi-gman-gospel/
A Chosen Family:
Nan Goldin’s life between art and activism.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/nan-goldin-beauty-bloodshed/
For Women’s
History Month, Let’s Make History: We can celebrate our progress, but this is
no time to rest on our laurels. There’s still a lot to do—and to defend.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/womens-history-month/
To Protect and
Serve ? How important is it for you to
feel safe in your neighborhood? This is a rhetorical but existentially
important question.
https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/to-protect-and-serve
MLK: Beyond
Vietnam - A Time to Break Silence, 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJhgXKGldUk
Arlington toddler
dies after reportedly shooting himself: Investigators believe the 2-year-old
found a gun in his teenage sibling’s room, police said.
Stripping away at
our Voting Rights, Double Standards, Biases, Wrongful Convictions & Good
Friday – Apr 7, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2jaNIeHW18
This Law
Criminalizes Black Trans Women
https://www.aclu.org/podcast/fighting-for-the-liberation-of-black-trans-women-in-louisiana
Ex-Theranos exec
Balwani headed to prison after losing appeal: Balwani will serve his time in a
facility in San Pedro
The Youngest
Victims of Belgium’s African Rule Are Still Seeking Justice, Decades Later:
Colonialism’s brutal legacy, including the European nation’s policy of forcing
mixed-race children into orphanages, is still keenly felt today
Judge names 17
Antioch cops who allegedly sent racist text messages, memes: The officers used
the N-word, shared racist memes referring to Black people, and talked
specifically about Black men they were investigating, potentially damaging
active criminal cases.
A Six-Minute
Video Speaks Louder Than Words: This is a problem of crazy people who on an
impulse walk into a gun shop and walk out with an instrument of brute force.
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/humor/six-minute-video
School's
transgender policy trumped teacher's religious rights, US court rules
Center City is
‘remarkably safe’: New report shows that crime downtown and in other major
cities isn’t on the rise. The Brookings
Institution finds that Center City is almost as safe as ever, even as crime has
risen in Philadelphia as a whole.
What Does It Mean
to Be Free? – Mar 29, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFATILYxbLA
FBI Used
Pink-Haired Undercover To Entrap Racial Justice Activists – Mar 29, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHZ145D5Qsk
Manhattan
District Attorney DESTROYS Jim Jordan with SURPRISE move – Apr 11, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnmtPBspSNo
Elizabeth Holmes
loses battle to delay imprisonment: Judge Edward Davila said he found Holmes
was not a flight risk or danger to the community, but he concluded she had not
raised any substantial questions of law or fact that would be likely to resul…
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/11/elizabeth-holmes-loses-battle-to-delay-imprisonment/
Watch "What
kind of Asian are you?" on YouTube
Red Road to DC
Totem Pole Journey - 1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_66WQc829co
Red Road To DC:
Totem Pole Journey for the Protection of Sacred Places - 1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVjYHq6tqQc
It’s Time to End
the Outrageous Militarization of America’s Police Force: De-escalation would
enhance public safety.
The Consequential
Debate of 1524: On What It Means to be Human, Part I
https://www.populist.com/29.06.DrCintli.html
Seeking Justice:
California’s Sterilization Compensation Program
https://www.populist.com/29.06.Sandronsky.html
Malcolm X: His
Struggle Continues
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/2/23/malcolm_x_his_struggle_continues
Women’s History
Month: Love, loss and the everyday women who raised me
A fort in
Montenegro that was a concentration camp during WWII was converted into a
luxury resort starting at 500 euros a night
Are the Women in
Your State Legislature Properly Attired?
Why the GOP
Should Undergo Remedial Diversity Training
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/why-the-gop-should-undergo-remedial#details
March Madness and
murder investigations shouldn’t mix: Brandon Miller has no business playing in
the NCAA college basketball tournament. And it shouldn’t be up to coach Nate
Oats to make the decision.
Selma's Mirror
http://stylemagazine.com/news/2023/mar/07/selmas-mirror/
The 1524
Dialogues Part II
https://www.populist.com/29.07.Cintli.html
Banning trans
athletes is just the beginning
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/congress-sports-federal-ban-trans-athletes/
Want to Turn the
Pitiless March of Gentrification Into a Parable of Progress? The New York Times shows just how it’s done.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gentrification-racecraft-nyt-class/
What’s Behind the
New Calls to Invade Mexico: The right can claim it’s about defeating cartels or
defending democracy, but it’s really about resource extraction.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/invade-mexico-amlo-cartels/
85-Year-Old Is
Charged in Shooting of Black Teenager Who Went to Wrong House: Lawyers for the
family of Ralph Yarl, 16, said he was in critical condition after being shot
twice in Kansas City, Mo. An 85-year-old white man was charged with
first-degree assault.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/us/ralph-yarl-kansas-city-shooting.html
Focusing on
What's Strong, Not What's Wrong: This is what sustainable community building
looks like and how we create change.
https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/sustainable-community
Black Educators
Are Reimagining A Better School System: “Black Lives Matter at School is an act
of resistance. It’s a refusal to accept the ways that we are perpetually
dehumanized. It’s a statement that we exist, that we are here, and that we are
going to fight back.”
https://inthesetimes.com/article/black-lives-matter-school-education-teachers-virginia
The Plot to
Cancel Drag Queens: Drag Shows under attack by far-right groups.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/plot-to-cancel-drag-queens-lgtbq-story-hour-protests-right-wing
"The poem refuses
to be a good worker": José Olivarez and Antonio Salazar use poetry and
photography to dive into the nuances of their Mexican American experience.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/poetry-olivarez-photos-salazar-poem-refuses-work
Calling Cop City
Activists "Terrorists" Is An Old Government Trick: Several Cop City
activists have been arrested and charged with domestic terrorism—something that
has long been a legal and rhetorical weapon of state power.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/calling-tree-huggers-terrorists-decade-after-decade
Drug
Decriminalization Saves Lives. Why Aren't We Doing It? Safe consumptions sites are places where
people who need help can be treated like people.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-big-idea-safe-consumption-sites-2
A White man was
‘scared to death’ of Ralph Yarl. For Black boys, this isn’t new
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/19/ralph-yarl-andrew-lester-shooting-black-fear/
Why are Americans
being shot for knocking on the wrong door?
It’s hard to imagine someone being shot for knocking on a stranger’s
door in Finland, Spain or Canada
Anjuli Kronheim
Katz, Tearing Down Structures of Oppression.
In the face of current growing instances of violence toward Jews, Anjuli
says that the challenge for the Jewish community is not to go into isolation.
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/anjuli-kronheim-katz
Oklahoma sheriff
says recording of killing talk was illegal, residents call for DOJ
investigation
Tyre Nichols'
family files lawsuit against Memphis police, cites multiple forms of negligence
The Prison
Professor: Leo Hylton is on a mission to teach away incarceration, one Zoom at
a time.
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2023/02/leo-hylton-prison-professor-incarceration-colby/
It Came From the
Basement: How Nick Fuentes groomed a new generation of racist hate.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/nick-fuentes/
Forever Home: A
Native woman fought for years to gain custody of her granddaughter. Now the
case is before the Supreme Court—and could have consequences beyond child
welfare.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/brackeen-haaland-scotus-indian-child-welfare-act-icwa/
‘I was able to
give back’: Landmark firefighting law sparks new hope for former inmates. A year out of prison, Benjamin Fowler is
graduating from a first-of-its-kind Bay Area program
What If the Worst
Crime Imaginable Never Happened? Jimmie
Duncan is on death row in Louisiana based on fraudulent science—but that might
not matter if the state’s governorship flips this fall.
https://newrepublic.com/article/170943/jimmie-duncan-louisiana-death-row-crime-never-happened
The Rise of
Damian Williams, America’s Top Crypto Cop: The U.S. attorney for the Southern
District of New York has become one of the country’s chief financial watchdogs.
https://newrepublic.com/article/170952/damian-williams-us-attorney-crypto-cop
No One Is
Innocent in Saint Omer: Alice Diop’s courtroom drama is a story of aspiration
and cruelty in a racist society.
https://newrepublic.com/article/170986/no-one-innocent-saint-omer-movie-alice-diop
NAACP sues after
Mississippi expands control over law enforcement in Jackson: Two new state
bills that Gov. Tate Reeves signed into on Friday are discriminatory because
they focus only on Jackson, a majority-Black city, the NAACP said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/naacp-sues-mississippi-expands-capitol-police-jackson-rcna78197
We must challenge
the misperception that a gun in the home makes people safer, Nicholas Kristof
writes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/opinion/american-shootings-guns.html
This article is
about Israel's Memorial Day. For the holiday known liturgically as Yom
HaZikaron, see Rosh Hashanah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_HaZikaron
Jim Hightower:
Hey kids, let's go to DeSantis World
Mary Sanchez:
Yes, Mexico is safe, if it can avoid the havoc rooted in America's drug and
firearm dilemma
CROP Grows in
California
https://www.populist.com/29.08.Sandronsky.html
The Racial
Interpretation of American History
https://www.populist.com/29.08.OLeary.html
Teaching
Inequality in North Carolina
https://www.populist.com/29.08.GNichol.html
Montana
transgender lawmaker barred by GOP from House floor
In a historic
shift, Pope Francis allows women to vote at bishops' meetings
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/26/1172201884/pope-francis-women-vote-bishops-meetings
The
Russo-Japanese War: A Jewish Perspective (1904-1905)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBddh06F3IU
Inside the
World’s Most Philosemitic Country Where Jews Live Free of Fear
Man who killed 5
neighbors in Texas 'could be anywhere,' sheriff says: The suspect, Francisco
Oropeza, killed the five victims after one asked him to stop shooting rounds in
his yard, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/5-dead-child-shooting-texas-home-suspect-large-rcna82090
Minnesota woman
who left newborn to die sentenced to prison
Review | A
Revolutionary for Our Time: the Walter Rodney Story
https://www.rs21.org.uk/2023/04/15/a-revolutionary-for-our-time-the-walter-rodney-story/
Why Targeting
Mental Illness Won't Prevent Mass Shootings: Instead of defaulting to mental
illness as the reason for mass shootings, we must look at countries with far
fewer gun deaths and mass shootings.
https://www.laprogressive.com/political-issues/targeting-mental-illness
Dehumanization
Leads to Mass Murder: Mass shootings are surface indicators of highly troubling
negative trends working their way through deep levels of our society
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/dehumanization-leads-to-mass-murder
E. Jean Carroll
Doesn't Need an Excuse for Not Screaming: The millions of sexual assault
survivors deserve our respect, support, and empathy, but never our pity.
https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/e-jean-carroll
How to Stop
Antisemitism: Fight the casual opportunist antisemitism that conservatives use
to drum up votes by not giving them votes, by not supporting their business
models.
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-media-in-the-united-states/stop-antisemitism
Tyre Nichols,
George Floyd, Police Abuse, and the Need to Redefine “Qualified Immunity”. The legal doctrine makes it nearly impossible
for plaintiffs to win a lawsuit against an individual wrongdoer in a police
abuse case. Congress can fix that.
Nebraska Lawmaker
Has Filibustered for Nine Weeks—and She’s Not Done: Machaela Cavanaugh says
she’ll do whatever it takes to stop the anti-trans bill in her state.
https://newrepublic.com/post/172303/nebraska-cavanaugh-filibuster-anti-trans-bill-nine-weeks
Search for
missing Oklahoma teens leads to 7 bodies: Authorities searching a rural
Oklahoma property for two missing teenagers discovered the bodies of seven
people Monday, including the suspected remains of the teens and a convicted sex
offender who was sought along with them, the local sheriff said. (May 2)
Gunman who killed
5 neighbors in a Texas home is caught after manhunt
Divorce
Illegal!?! We Told You GOP Wanted To Turn Women Into Property – May 3, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr-DpANj2uA
Tou Thao, former
MPD officer charged in George Floyd's killing, found guilty. The judge cast aside any notion that Thao was
largely unaware that Floyd was in deadly peril.
The Present and
Future of Jewish Genealogy and Holocaust Remembrance – 1 month ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roCEGTHKEss
California
reparations panel OKs state apology, payments
In rare move,
Supreme Court halts Oklahoma execution: Richard Glossip's execution was
scheduled for May 18.
Officials Probe
Texas Mall Shooter’s Possible Link to White Supremacy: Gunman used an
AR-15-style rifle in the shooting spree outside of Dallas
https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-mall-shooting-white-supremacy-4ec74709
Tesla fired
‘angry Black woman’ after ‘maniacal’ White manager sought illegal termination
of Latina worker: lawsuit. Elon Musk’s
firm again accused of racism
Posts show mall
gunman researched attack, had Nazi tattoos
https://apnews.com/article/texas-mall-shooting-mauricio-garcia-424607c69a5df0adab64f236924ae4e2
With George
Berkeley’s slave-owner past uncovered, will the city or university consider a
name change? The problematic pasts of
historical figures have forced the renaming of hundreds of buildings and the
removal of dozens of statues from public squares across the U.S. But what
happens when the name
‘I am a White
person:’ UC Berkeley scholar apologizes for wrongly claiming to be Native
American her ‘whole life’
California task
force member says reparations are about more than payouts
Texas man who
fatally shot BLM protester sentenced to 25 years
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/texas-man-who-fatally-shot-blm-protester-sentenced-to-25-years
A Marine Vet Used
a Chokehold Leading to a Man's Death. The Technique, Taught in Basic Training,
Faces Fresh Scrutiny.
Today is National
Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
https://news.va.gov/118809/missing-murdered-indigenous-women-girls/
#VeteranOfTheDay
Marine Veteran Ken Norton
https://news.va.gov/118441/veteranoftheday-marine-ken-norton/
What I Learned
From Kevin Alexander Gray
https://www.populist.com/29.09.Kolhatkar.html
Can American
Jewish Support for Israel Survive This New Government? For many liberal American Jews, this most
extreme right-wing government in Israel’s history is a test of long-held
assumptions and beliefs.
Policing Where We
Pee
https://www.populist.com/29.08.ArtCullenPolicingPee.html
Jesse Jackson:
Blessed are the children
https://tribunecontentagency.com/article/jesse-jackson-blessed-are-the-children/
Running and
Dancing: Traditions of Endurance
https://www.populist.com/29.09.Cintli.html
Assault on
Religious Freedom: Violent Crackdown by Israeli Police on Christian Worshipers
in Jerusalem
https://www.juancole.com/2023/04/religious-crackdown-worshipers.html
Documentaries
Trace Three Black Lives That Mattered
https://www.populist.com/29.09.Patterson.html
The Gruesome
Death of Lashawn Thompson in the Fulton County Jail
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/4/20/the_gruesome_death_of_lashawn_thompson
Sexual Harassment
Is a Civil, Not Criminal, Offense: Cuomo and his enablers rely on the public’s
lazy understanding of the legal system.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/sexual-harassment-civil-criminal-cuomo/
ADL chief knocks
Musk for comparing Soros to ‘Jewish supervillain’ Magneto
Fear over AI
dangers grows as some question if tools like ChatGPT will be used for evil
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/05/15/fear-ai-chatgpt-dangers/70212857007/
‘An affront to Holocaust
victims’: Deborah Lipstadt slams Mahmoud Abbas for likening Israel to Joseph
Goebbels
Gay Professor
Placed on Suspension Following Distribution of Controversial Chocolate Bars
Deutsche Bank to
pay millions in Epstein victim settlement
https://www.dw.com/en/deutsche-bank-to-pay-millions-in-epstein-victim-settlement/a-65667425
15-year-old
arrested after bringing AR-15, ammunition to a Phoenix high school, police say
The student is
facing “serious felony charges” after allegedly bringing the semi-automatic
rifle to Bostrom High School, where he was arrested Friday, the Phoenix Police
Department said.
Tennessee
Republicans Are Showing Exactly How Deep American Racism Goes: The Republicans’
attempt to push two Black legislators out of the Tennessee statehouse was an
object lesson in bigotry.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tennessee-legislature-critical-race-theory/
NAACP posts
Florida travel advisory, warns DeSantis' policies 'hostile' to Black Americans
Get Out Of
Florida While You Still Can! Warning From America’s Oldest Civil Rights
Organization – May 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dZOHl7Yxck
The Tortured Bond
of Alice Sebold and the Man Wrongfully Convicted of Her Rape: Anthony
Broadwater spent sixteen years in prison and twenty-two more as a registered
sex offender. For him and for the author of “The Lovely Bones,” justice is a
difficult dream.
A History of
Incarceration by Women Who Have Lived Through It: The members of the Indiana
Women’s Prison History Project are able to scrutinize official records not only
for what they reveal but also for what they omit.
Surviving
Germany’s Neo-Nazi Resurgence: “No-go zones.” Extremist rallies at the
Reichstag. Asylum seekers facing harassment. Inside the rising threat posed by
the German far right.
https://newrepublic.com/article/171675/surviving-germanys-neo-nazi-resurgence
White House
releases national strategy to fight antisemitism
Adidas’ Yeezy
Sales Are Going to Anti-Defamation League, George Floyd Family’s Organization
"There is no
place in sport or society for hate of any kind and we remain committed to
fighting against it," company says
Antisemitism,
White Supremacy on the Rise in Massachusetts: Report. Gov. Healey, in a statement, said her
administration is committed to being a "strong partner" to combat
hate
Froma Harrop: Why
do we obsess over transgender issues?
MARY SANCHEZ: The
GOP’s gender hysteria
America Is Being
Exhausted By the Fear- and Hate-Mongers.
So, what do we do?
https://hartmannreport.com/p/america-is-being-exhausted-by-the
The Artist Who
Taught Me About Justice: In my first job after college, I was an assistant to
Harry Belafonte. There was nobody better
to learn from about justice and the arts.
https://www.populist.com/29.10.Hassen.html
Sixty Years After
the Birmingham Children’s Crusade, Youth Still Fight for Racial Justice
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/5/4/sixty_years_after_the_birmingham_childrens
One Man Killed
Jordan Neely—but We All Failed Him: Everything about Neely’s death is a symptom
of our collective rot—from the way we treat poverty as a crime to the way we
treat soldiers as weapons that can be stowed.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/we-all-failed-jordan-neely/
When Racial
Justice Meant Universal Social Benefits: The left used to believe that reducing
inequality across the board was the best way to combat racial injustice. What happened?
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/racial-inequality-universal/
Clarence Thomas
Is What He Wrongly Accuses Black Folks of Being: Thomas has elevated “personal
responsibility” into a prerequisite for citizenship. Yet he fails his own test.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/clarence-thomas-supreme-court/
When “Suicide
Watch” Becomes a Death Sentence: Instead of the help they need, people in
prisons and jails with mental health issues are often left alone to suffer—and
sometimes die.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/suicide-watch-death-sentence/
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