Friday, November 1

SOCIAL JUSTICE

Listen to the Silence
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Listen to the Silence

As the number of unarmed black men killed by law enforcement officers increase, I am struck by the silence of my white friends. I am left with feelings of incomprehension.The anger that rises up in me from the worry and concern for my 18 year old grandson in particular, my younger grandsons, my nephews, cousins, friends, and every black male in America takes away my aliveness. There is a knot in my stomach on a daily basis. The worry; concern; the fear. I get angry by the realization that the color of my skin makes me a potential target. I get angry because all the warriors on whose shoulders I stand, gave their lives in vain. I get tired as I bear the burden of my race, this country and the institutional ways in which we black people are marginalized. I get angry when the non-conversation...
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Beyoncé, Alicia Keys & More Speak Up About Being Black in America
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Beyoncé, Alicia Keys & More Speak Up About Being Black in America

Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, Rihanna and more are making a powerful statement about being black in America. Sharing “23 Ways You Could Be Killed If You’re Black in America,” the video highlights the innocuous and everyday actions black citizens do that trigger police brutality. Source: Beyoncé, Alicia Keys & More Speak Up About Being Black in America « Radio.com
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Shonda Rhimes: Black Lives Matter not to blame for Dallas cop deaths
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Shonda Rhimes: Black Lives Matter not to blame for Dallas cop deaths

Shonda Rhimes hit back at those who have blamed the Black Lives Matter movement on the murders of five police officers in Dallas on Thursday.“If I hear one more idiot suggest that #BlackLivesMatter incited this… The level of ignorance is stunning. Just absolutely stunning,” she wrote on Twitter.On Friday, police identified Micah Xavier Johnson as the shooter in the attack. He was not affiliated with the protest or Black Lives Matter movement, but was upset over the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, both of whom were fatally shot by police officers this week. According to Dallas Police Chief David Brown, Johnson “wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.” He was killed by officers after the attack (three other suspects remain in custody). Source: Shonda Rhimes: Bl...
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Kansas Black Lives Matter holds picnic with police instead of protest
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Kansas Black Lives Matter holds picnic with police instead of protest

A Black Lives Matter group in Wichita, Kan., originally planned a protest Sunday but instead had a cookout with police.Following recent officer-involved shootings and acts of violence, the Kansas Black Lives Matter Group wanted to voice concern. Tuesday after a long discussion with the Wichita Police Department, the group decided to cancel the Sunday protest and instead come together with officers for the First Steps Cookout, a gathering in a local park aimed at taking the first step towards building a relationship between officers and the community.Officers served hamburgers and hot dogs and played basketball with members of the community. Kids jumped in bounce-houses and blew bubbles. Officers and the community even danced together. Source: Kansas Black Lives Matter holds picnic with pol...
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Anonymous Tip Exposes Secret Boycott Action

We have received a tip of a secret boycott in the works due to the rash of shootings of black people by law enforcement nation wide.  The boycott has been in force since July 8th 2016 and schedule to run until August 9th with two main companies Target Stores and Coca Cola Bottling Products as the target of the boycott. Why is it being called a secret? The call for this boycott is being texted via cell phone to people across the nation and ask each person that receives the txt to forward it to seven more people. They are also ask not to share this information on any social media platform (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) no social media only txt or word of mouth. The boycott is also calling for the organizing of one million black people to move $100 dollars to black owned businesses and banks ...
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Pillars of Black Media, Once Vibrant, Now Fighting for Survival
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Pillars of Black Media, Once Vibrant, Now Fighting for Survival

For the black community in Chicago and elsewhere, Johnson Publishing Company represented a certain kind of hope.The company’s magazines, most notably Ebony and Jet, gained prominence during the struggle for civil rights — Jet published graphic photos of the murdered black teenager Emmett Till that helped intensify the movement — and made it their mission to chronicle African-American life.At a time when much of the media was ignoring black people, or showing them primarily in the context of poverty or crime, Ebony and Jet celebrated their success, featuring stars like Muhammad Ali and Aretha Franklin on their covers. When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, the first print publication he granted an interview to was Ebony.So when Johnson Publishing, which is based in Chicago, announ...
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Racism = IGNORANCE
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Racism = IGNORANCE

When you hear the word Racism, what do you think? Personally, racism to me is the same as ignorance. We don't need it and there is no reason for it. In today's society there is so much diversity, so may kinds and types of races.  The ones that comet mind right off the top of my head are; blacks, whites, Hispanics or Latinos. It's usually the three main races there arediscriminated in one way or another everyday whether it be in publicly, socially, or economically. Racism is defined as the belief that human races have distinctive characteristics which determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule or dominate others. There are many types of racism like for instance racial discrimination. Racial discrimination is wh...
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Women-led podcasts take a risk others won’t: admitting they don’t know everything
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Women-led podcasts take a risk others won’t: admitting they don’t know everything

In the podcasting world, as in so much of life, men get to do most of the talking. As of this writing, just 18 of iTunes’s top 100 podcasts are hosted by women. Twelve have female co-hosts. And 70 are hosted by one or more men.But despite this imbalance, podcasting has the potential to democratize the legacy broadcasting industry. Already, women-hosted shows are elevating marginalized voices and tackling intimate issues that we rarely discuss in our public lives. I believe that podcasts’ ability to engage people in difficult conversations may well influence the way we relate to one another in the rest of our lives—and that this change will be driven not just by women hosts, but by the increasing number of women listeners who are tuning in.Back in 2005, a survey done for advertisers by Podt...
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LGBTQ Activist Demands Reparations for All ‘Fat, Black’ Women
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LGBTQ Activist Demands Reparations for All ‘Fat, Black’ Women

According to a piece on an “intersectional feminist media” website, “fat, black” women are owed reparations due to the “trauma” that comes with being one.“The case for reparations for fat Black b******  is: f*** you, pay us,” self-described “queer, agender Black fat femme writer, artist, and cultural producer” Ashleigh Shackelford writes in a piece for Wear Your Voice.#ad#Now, although Shackelford is discussing black women in particular, she also makes sure to clarify that this, unlike the case for slavery reparations, is an issue specifically tied to weight:  “I see thin femmes and women (of all races, actually) who are offered protection and care in ways fat black bitches are never granted,” she writes. “Our dehumanization is used to humanize everyone else in the entire world, but no one...
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