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Summer 2000 Youth Rising magazine

slamherstory wrote 1 month ago: —> —>  Click here: Mumia_Youth_Rising_2000 to get a closer look at this striking p … more →

Tags: spoken word, SLAM founders, Black community and SLAM, Radical people of color organizing, Women of Color, Organizing tactics and strategy, Decolonization of the mind, police brutality, slam

k.Diallo wrote 2 months ago: Amadou Bailo Diallo (September 2, 1975 – February 4, 1999) was a 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea w … more →

Tags: Black Youth, NYPD, Justice

Man with Spray Can, No Weapon, Shot by Cops...

ausedpoetictragedy wrote 2 months ago: If we must have a policing system, why must we have one so insanely stupid? Moreover, why does the g … more →

Tags: human rights violations, america, police brutality, News/Info Too Insane To Believe-But 100% Real, police killings, mental illness, California, Maywood, LAPD

Yusef, Amadou and Kimani: East Flatbush Shooting Injects Race Into Election

fpennobserver wrote 3 months ago: Last year, when the cops who were part of a street narcotics unit shot and killed unarmed teenager R … more →

Tags: Kimani Gray, Michael Bloomberg, Ramarley Graham, Rudy Giuliani, Yusef hawkins

Random Thoughts

The Soul Brother wrote 3 months ago: The Catholic Church needs Pope Francis. Jorge Mario Bergoglio knows exactly what he is doing by choo … more →

Tags: Thoughts of the Soul Brother, New York, Politics, Commentary, Kansas City, Economy, NYPD, Sean Bell, Entertainment

Blue and Black: A Deadly Trend of Violence; Jamie Foxx Honors Trayvon Martin

natalieisgoode wrote 3 months ago: This week marked the one year anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death. A baby-faced, chocolate-s … more →

Tags: Trayvon Martin Anniversary, Sean Bell, Ramarley Graham, Rodney King, Jamie Foxx, Kendrec McDade, Hoods Up

In memory of Trayvon Martin & all American boys killed for being black: What is white privilege.3 comments

emilylhauser wrote 3 months ago: Trayvon Martin was killed a year ago today. In his memory and in the memory of all the African Ameri … more →

Tags: Social Justice, Fury, human rights, Trayvon Martin, white privilege, black men killed by police, Travares McGill, Sean Bell, Oscar Grant

Happy Birthday, Trayvon Martin

aceviewblogger wrote 4 months ago: Last year on this day, I was not a father, nor did I know that I could possibly love another person … more →

Tags: Trayvon Martin, Stand Your Ground, Young Black Men, Jordan Davis, Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, 18th birthday

Remember Amadou Diallo: Stand Up Against Police Brutality and Racial Profiling!

elisegoldin wrote 4 months ago: 14 years ago today, 22 year old Amadou Diallo was shot at 41 times by the police in the doorway of h … more →

Tags: Blog, bronx, uhab organizing, NYPD, Stop and Frisk, operation clean halls, secure communities, police brutality, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice

So-called "police reviews" encourage police killings of innocents, order return of killer cops' gun

reed wrote 8 months ago: Amadou Diallo’s Mother Angered That Officer Who Shot Son Gets To Carry Gun Again by D.L. Chand … more →

Tags: U. S., Government Repression, police killing, NYPD, Mayor David Dinkins, police commisioner kelly, Kadiatou Diallo

Every Mother's Son (trailer) - YouTube

serious2020 wrote 8 months ago: Every Mother’s Son (trailer) – YouTube. … more →

Tags: Culture, Film (2), Literature, black women, Black Men, police brutality, community outrage, AFRIKAN, Law

Bruce Springsteen Countdown #56: "American Skin (41 Shots)"

countdownkid wrote 9 months ago: From all accounts that I’ve read, Bruce gets all the facts right in this song inspired by the death … more →

Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, hurricane carter, William Zantzinger, Bruce Springsteen songs, Bruce Springsteen countdown, American Skin (41 shots), trapped, Jimmy Cliff

Urban Memorial of Amadou Diallo - A Wordpress Weekly Photo Challenge

Nando wrote 9 months ago: Amadou Bailo Diallo was a 23-year-old Guinean immigrant in New York City who was shot and killed on … more →

Tags: weekly photo challenges, New York City, New York City, Memorial, Police shooting, mural, Urban, NYPD

Why Are Blacks Treated Like They Have Super Powers?

Shani Ealey wrote 10 months ago: The black body always comes along with some sort of title. Some days it is the dangerous gangster, w … more →

Tags: Milton Hall, Chavis Carter, police killings, police brutality, police killing Blacks, police killing minorities

Humanity

Josh O. a.k.a. "Billious" wrote 10 months ago: The first rule of a revolutionary is he must learn he is a doomed man. (Huey Newton). I am damned … more →

Tags: Poetry, Huey Newton, Batman, prejudice, Mao Zedong, Power, Sean Bell, Emmitt Till, Trayvon Martin

One Sided Justice??

Que wrote 10 months ago: Photo courtesy of stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com I’ve been partially following the tria … more →

Tags: Q.U.E., Trayvon Martin, Current Events, Politics, Hurricane Katrina, Los Angeles Riots, police brutality, Black on Black crime, Race issues

History: "In God We Trust" Becomes America's Motto

Bea Thompson wrote 10 months ago: It might surprise some, but this very religious statement became America’s motto during a time … more →

Tags: Shows, News, Beatrice Thompson, Bea Thompson, Jimmy Hoffa, MediaMavenBea, corn flakes, The Platters, The Blair Witch Project

What Canada can teach the U.S. about race relations3 comments

theflyingmongoose wrote 11 months ago: A young African-American male is exiting his apartment building on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, dres … more →

Tags: canada and the united states, Race Relations, Malcolm Gladwell, Segregation, Discrimination, snap judgements

Scary Nervous People Shouldnt Carry Guns- My "two-cents" on the Trayvon Martin case4 comments

shutyamouthandcallmeugly wrote 11 months ago: From the time the Trayvon Martin story emerged, I said I wouldn’t say anything.  I heard the story o … more →

Tags: HOPE, Sean Bell, OJ Simpson, Trayvon Martin, nigger, racism, Stand Your Ground Law, Innocence, Teenager


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