Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Quotes To Live By

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Friday, February 07, 2014

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva on Racism Without Racists

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Just before the last Presidential election in 2012, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva -- Chair of the Sociology Department at Duke University and a...
Monday, February 03, 2014

Prison: The Not-So-Secret Industry

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Source: Online-Paralegal-Degree.org
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Montgomery, Alabama: Then and Now

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Mural at Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial Center   Another Martin Luther King, Jr., Day has come and gone. There was a...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Akua Taylor: Approve

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There's a difference between affirmation and denial. People that go around announcing statements they wish were true but that aren...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

Step Up! Be the Change!

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Sniffing around on YouTube, I found this by Amir Bilal and the Pakistan Youth Parliament. The desire for a better world. It's everyw...
Friday, January 17, 2014

Hopeful Note #2: Guerilla Gardening

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Creative thinkers like Ron Finley are prepared to lead us to a different world. A world I can hardly wait to see. Even if it's in a...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Hopeful Note #1: The Election of Chokwe Lumumba

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I'm opening my ninth year blogging on White Supremacy and the socially-constructed, political notion of "race," by refere...
Monday, January 13, 2014

28 Common Racist Attitudes and Behaviors

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The handout on "28 Common Racist Attitudes and Behaviors" to which I'm linking here was developed and written by Debra Lei...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Some Ducks Are Decoys

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At first glance, this post may not seem to be about the socially-constructed, political notion of "race" at all. But I think i...
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Saturday, January 11, 2014

We Can Make This World A Better Place

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I don't know about you, but I could use a little musical interlude about now. I don't know what it is about Saturday mornings. Gro...

A Note to My Faithful Readers

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As I prepare to enter my ninth year of blogging in this space, I decided to do an inventory of the site and discovered that half of th...
Friday, January 10, 2014

A Conversation Between bell hooks and Melissa Harris-Perry

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Old Guard meets New Guard. Crone embraces Vanguard. Intelligence and Spirit blends with Intelligence and Spirit. And we get to witness t...
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Thursday, January 09, 2014

Rest in Power, Amiri Baraka

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Amiri Baraka has passed to the other side. A brilliant writer and thinker, Baraka left much work behind him to guide and inspire those wh...

SpectraSpeaks: "Straight Allies, White Anti-Racists, Male Feminists (and Other Labels That Mean Nothing to Me)"

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I'm taking a risk here. I very much want to follow up yesterday's re-post of Shenita Ann McLean 's essay on "Politics of...
Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Shenita Ann McLean: "Politics of Black Superwoman Otherness"

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After focusing on the plight and struggle of Black men this past week, I'm going to spend the next few days focusing on Black women...

Justice for Albert Woodfox!

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Couldn't resist posting this photo of just a few of the hundred or so supporters who packed the courtroom, spilling over into an over...
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Freedom? Now!

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For the past few days, I've been examining how the criminal not-just, not-legal system is used against people of color, with special...
Monday, January 06, 2014

The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of The Parts

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When I talk about what happens to Black boys and men in this country or how oppression works related to any group in the world (women of...
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Sunday, January 05, 2014

A Case In Point: Jamil Joyner

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So society in the United States stereotypes young Black men from birth, constantly reinforcing those stereotypes with low expectations a...