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UUA GA 2015 – GA Talk – Kenny Wiley/Amada Weatherspoon

Pay It No Mind: The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson Continue reading FRN Must List – June 29, 2015 →

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#BlackLivesMatter Ep of #MooreTalkLive Loving Blackness and #Charleston #Haiti #Jamaica

The Dominican Republic’s “Ethnic Purging”: Edwidge Danticat on Mass Deportation of Haitian Families

South Carolina Massacre: Why Don’t We Call Killing of 9 Black Churchgoers and Act of Terrorism?

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A long walk to freedom – The “March 2 Justice” is over, but the fight for racial equality continues by Alex Q Arbuckle Continue reading FRN Must List – June 22, 2015 →

My heart is still heavy today thinking about the 9 lives lost in Charleston to White Supremacy. Today on my mind is Susie Jackson.

She was the matriarch of her family and was busy planning their annual family reunion at the time of her murder. I am haunted by the knowledge that her final moments were tied to such violence and hatred. That after her long life THIS is how she was taken from us.

I sit here thinking about all that she lived through in her 87 years on this earth as a black women. There are many tragedies that I know mark those 87 years but instead here I choose to note the triumphs that she witnessed her fellow Black Women achieve during her lifetime.

Losing her is the loss of a real life connector to these moments & to the stories that go with them as seen through her eyes that only she could tell: Continue reading On the Loss of Susie Jackson →

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Emphasis Added: Baltimore & the Death of Freddie Gray – VICE News

Dante Barry – Powerful Platform, Powerful Movements

Fist up Fight Back – Extended HD from Erika Totten

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• The Infallibility of Miss Ann (Or, the Last Rachel Dolezal Thinkpiece Ever) by Jamilah Lemieux

Continue reading FRN Must List – June 15, 2015 →

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Black Summer Vacation or how White Supremacy ruins everything – STORIFY

A National Left Politics? From The Left Forum 2015

Decoded – Are Fried Chicken & Watermelon Racist? MTV News

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The Role The Police Played in Sparking The Baltimore Violence

Fatal police shootings in 2015 approaching 400 nationwide

Black Filmmakers Launch Twitter Takeover with #ARRAY

Chimanmanda Ngozi Adichie: My Father’s Kidnapping

Grim History Traced in Sunken Slave Ship Found Off South Africa

Picking Up the Pieces: Policing in America – A Minneapolis Case Study

White progressives’ racial myopia: Why their colorblindness fails minorities – and the left

Samaria Rice on Living & Losing Her Son, Tamir

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Baltimore activist calls out Democratic “Leaders” on police brutality

Deray McKesson on CNN regarding threat from Chuck C Johnson

@Crissles on Micropolis: Funny or Racist addresses Sarah Silverman in Blackface – skip to 1:19 for the specific portion

Mass Incarceration: The Politics Behind the Bars
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DOJ Report on Cleveland Police Department

• Full DOJ Report
• Appalling stories from the DOJ’s investigation of the Cleveland Police Department
• The DOJ’s jaw-dropping report about the Cleveland Police Department

Hey, White People! If You Really Want to Help End Racism, You Need to Invest in Other White People (Yeah, We Know It Sounds Counterintuitive)

Can Philly Students Convince City Official to Repeal Stop & Frisk?

The shocking truth about the two Chicago Police officer posing in this horrendous photo

The Persistent Racism of Theological Schools Part I
The Persistent Racism of Theological Schools Part II

Kentucky Organizer: Ending White Supremacy Is in Everyone’s Interest

A Theology of Liberation to Inspire White Anti-Racist Organizing

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