Boston, a city with a long history of racial violence and segregation got a wake up call yesterday. A group supported by, but unaffiliated with Black Lives Matter Boston, took to the highway to unite against racism.
“We must muster outrage over the routine dehumanization that happens in our criminal-justice system, rather than reserve it for the most extraordinary instances of injustice, if we are to maintain a movement for change,” writes Jonathan Rapping at the Nation.
Boko Haram, the terrorist cell in Nigeria responsible for kidnapping over 200 girls early last year, may be using the girls to carry out bomb attacks.
There has been no national outcry against the death of Aura Rosser at the hands of the Ann Arbor, Mich. Police Department. Writer Terrell Jermaine Starr wonders if black men’s lives matter more than black women’s.
“The state of Florida, it appears, is ground zero for the deaths of prisoners, and the crisis is so deeply corrupt and out of hand that it needs immediate national intervention,” writes Shaun King.
“Majority culture’s adoption of the word, stolen from African American vernacular, distorted it to the point of misuse and meaninglessness,” writes Robin Boylorn for the Guardian.
Last year, Chicago couple, Kordale and Kaleb Lewis went viral after a picture of them doing their daughters’ hair went viral. Now the family is starring in a commercial for Nikon.
“Social networks are too fickle for activists to depend on for media attention,” writes Jenée Desmond-Harris at Vox.
High-achieving low-income students of color are being boxed out of CUNY, New York’s city colleges.
“It’s not impossible to imagine a time when the mere act of being outside while Black is punishable by law,” writes Stacey Patton for Dame Magazine.
For the Guardian, Hannah Giorgis writes that online communities became her de-facto mental health support after she was failed by her university’s services.
Isabel Wilkerson, author of ‘The Warmth of Other Suns’, writes that uprising against brutality is part of a day of reckoning for the North.
