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Black youth told to leave Park Slope by NYPD
According to witnesses, on September 22, NYPD officers turned on their lights and via the police car’s loud speaker told a group of black teenagers walking down the street to leave the Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn. The issue was brought up during a Community Council meeting by Sara Bennett, who saw the event.
Feature: We still lie about slavery, Here’s the truth about how the American economy and power were built on forced migration and torture
The following piece is from Salon. It was written by Edward E. Baptist. By: Edward E. Baptist Excerpted from “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” 1937 A beautiful late April day, seventy-two years after slavery ended in the United States. Claude Anderson parks his car on the side of Holbrook […]
Adrian Peterson: ‘I am not a child abuser’
After being reinstated to the NFL, Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson released a statement in response to child abuse allegations. Peterson took to his Twitter account to voice his thoughts on accusations of child abuse after images surfaced of his 4-year-old son being severely bruised after being disciplined by the star.
The Purge
By: Tiara Phalon “If on one night every year, you could commit any crime without facing consequences, what would you do?
Feature: Between the Peacekeepers and Protesters in Ferguson
The following post is from Truthout. It was written by Raven Rakia. By: Raven Rakia From the very beginning, the movement in Ferguson, Missouri, has been youth-led and locally initiated. It was spurred after neighbors saw a young man dead in the streets for four hours after he had been gunned down by police officer Darren […]
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announces probe into Ferguson Police Department
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the launch of a broad civil rights investigation into the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department. The investigation will be conducted by the Justice Department’s civil rights division. It will follow a process similar to the one used to investigate complaints of profiling and the use of excessive force […]
Black Men: ‘I’m tired of feeling like someone’s enemy’
The following post is from The Root. It was written by The Root Staff. By: The Root Staff (Editor’s note: We began this summer with a commemoration of Freedom Summer, 50 years after blood was shed on Southern soil to insure our inalienable right to vote as citizens of these United States. We end this […]
Instead of arrests, Ferguson protesters get meeting with U.S. Attorney
When a group of Ferguson, Missouri protesters marched on the office of U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan on Tuesday, they expected to be arrested. Instead, they met with Callahan face-to-face for an hour.
Feature: How Trayvon Martin’s Death Launched a New Generation of Black Activism
The following post is from The Nation. It was written by Mychal Denzel Smith. By: Mychal Denzel Smith On July 13, 2013, George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the murder of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African-American 17-year-old walking home from a 7-Eleven. What The Washington Post and other media outlets had dubbed “the trial of the […]
Violence in Chicago extends beyond the kids who die
The following post is from the Chicago Reader. It was written by Steve Bogira. By: Steve Bogira e many Chicagoans, Latoya Winters was stunned by the fatal shooting of 11-year-old Shamiya Adams at a sleepover in July. Shamiya and several friends were in the bedroom of a home in West Garfield Park. They were circled […]
What’s Beef?
The age-old phrase “beef” or “beefing” has become an mainstay in recent years in the realm of Hip-Hop. Any form of the dozens or verbal jousting nowadays is misconstrued as “beef,” but what actually constitutes beef in the Hip-Hop arena versus those who operate on the periphery? I decided to revisit this topic in […]
BYP100 on how you can end police brutality in your community
The following post originally appears on The Grio. It was written by BYP100’s National Coordinator Charlene Carruthers and BYP100 member Terrance Laney. By: Charlene Carruthers & Terrance Laney President Barack Obama’s statements on the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, left many young black folks feeling that the administration was either unwilling or inept at addressing […]