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The Viral Video, EBT: We Have Failed You, Chapter . . . An Open Letter
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII&feature=youtu.be Dear Chapter, Once upon a time when I was a little brown girl and the economy was really bad because of Reganomics, my “employed” and single black mother received food assistance to help feed her two daughters because her minimal wage check could not fully cover rent and the daily luxuries of milk, eggs, […]
Secession aint gonna end the recession
The old saying goes, “Don’t mess with Texas”. Believe me, I haven’t really messed with Texas since the 1995 Dallas Cowboys team. Although my heart is as big as the state itself, it’s tough for me to stomach the thought of Rick Perry becoming President of the United States. Maybe I’ll try to overlook the […]
Black Families Were Better Off During Slavery. Huh?
I don’t expect much from Michelle Bachmann. Anyone who claims to understand U.S. history but states that the “founding fathers” did not care about skin color is clearly a deluded revisionist. Yes, Bachmann actually said, “It didn’t matter the color of their skin. It didn’t matter their language. It didn’t matter their economic status,” Bachmann […]
Report: Educational Inequities Still Hold Black Students Back
Report: Educational Inequities Still Hold Black Students Back Frank McCoy, BET News | July 1, 2011 The U.S. Department of Education released part one of its 2009-10 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) Thursday, and it is a comprehensive, and downbeat, look at the education of 75 percent of American students in more than 7,000 districts. The […]
Clayton Hill: Dawoud Muhammad Murdered Notorious B.I.G., I Was An Accessory After The Fact
Clayton Hill: Dawoud Muhammad Murdered Notorious B.I.G., I Was An Accessory After The Fact Huffington Post | July 5, 2011 Clayton Hill, a former member of the Nation of Islam and currently incarcerated at a federal prison in Chicago, has come forward and told HipHopDX.com that he played an accessory to the murder of rapper Notorious […]
Young Activists Use Art to Fight for the DREAM Act
Young Activists Use Art to Fight for the DREAM Act Stokely Baksh, Julianne Hing, Colorlines | July 1, 2011 The federal DREAM Act is back. This week Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the longtime champion of the bill, chaired the first ever Senate hearing on the narrow legalization effort that would allow a select population of undocumented youth […]
Do black men get better health care behind bars?
Do black men get better health care behind bars? Monique W. Morris, The Grio | June 30, 2011 More than 850,000 black men and women are currently incarcerated in federal or state prisons, or in local jails throughout the U.S. The conditions of confinement have caused deep wounds for African-Americans, compromising the healthy development of communities and […]
Bay Area transit agency agrees to pay $1.3 million to mother of man fatally shot by officer
Bay Area transit agency agrees to pay $1.3 million to mother of man fatally shot by officer Associated Press | June 28, 2011 OAKLAND, Calif. — A San Francisco Bay area transit agency Tuesday agreed to pay $1.3 million to the mother of a 22-year-old unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a white […]
Civil Disobedience, Gay Rights Movements, and the Black Single Mothers Who Don’t Benefit From Marriage
Silje Sande an American Professor, discusses something called “The Necessary Tension.” She writes “In a democracy the tension between civil obedience and disobedience is a necessary tension.” She argues that Civil Disobedience confronts and holds accountable the norms that exist in society today. I think that black single mothers and families around the country should […]
Say No To Drugs (Especially if you are on welfare or a state employee in Florida)
A few days ago I aired my frustration towards Florida Governor Rick Scott on Facebook. My status stated: “Requiring welfare recipients to undergo drug testing is yet another method being used by the GOP to increase social surveillance in low-income communities. This is nothing but a ploy by Governor Rick Scott to add more […]
Change Comes Slow in Juvenile Justice
Change Comes Slow in Juvenile Justice Cynthia Gordy, The Root | May 27, 2011 In 1974 the U.S. Congress mandated the creation of the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Made up of representatives from 12 federal agencies (including the departments of Education, Housing and Development, and Health and Human Services), the council’s purpose […]
Supreme Court upholds order for California to release 46,000 inmates
Supreme Court upholds order for California to release 46,000 inmates James Oliphant, Los Angeles Times | May 23, 2011 Reporting from Washington — The Supreme Court, in a narrow 5-4 decision, has an upheld an injunction by a three-judge panel ordering California to release about 46,000 inmates — more than one-fourth the state prison population — over […]