A police officer, identified as Sgt. Jeff Rothecker in St. Paul, Minnesota, is under investigation for a Facebook post he made on Martin Luther King, Jr’s birthday which suggest drivers encountering Black Lives Matter protestors on January 15 shouldn’t “slow down for any of these idiots who try and block the …
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New York City mayor Bill DiBlasio had hoped to be able to deliver a speech extolling the virtues of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr with minimal confrontations. It turns out, he found himself caught between the legacy of the past and the determination of Black Lives Matter to create an …
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In a weekend-long series of actions aimed at reclaiming/restoring Martin Luther King Jr’s history of radicalism and revolutionary action, Black Lives Matter activists chain linked cars together and blocked traffic at the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Via The Guardian: “Today is the day when we reclaim MLK’s radical legacy,” …
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Spike Lee, joining a growing chorus of prominent celebrities fed up with Hollywood’s lack of racial diversity, announced on social media that he would be boycotting the Oscars. He is due to receive an honorary lifetime achievement award. Via The Root: For two consecutive years, the Academy of Motion Pictures …
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Video footage shows protestors chaining their cars to the Bay Bridge to block westbound traffic into San Francisco. They have a banner reading “Black Health Matters” and have built a shrine to the victims of police shootings. Another protest group currently blocks an I-80 onramp. KTVU reports: “Police have begun …
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Britney Packnett has penned a powerful piece of Time asserting the continued existence of Black Lives Matter and the fight for racial justice. Via Time: It has been 17 months since Michael Brown lost his life in Ferguson, Mo., and protestors took to the tear-gassed, blood-stained streets near my home …
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Well, file this one under the outlandish and bizarre, even for Fox News Networks. Speaking to Alveda King – the niece of MLK well known for her conservative views – the co-hosts of Fox and Friends suggested that the recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations scheduled throughout the country had turned the …
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"We Shall Overcome": funeral procession for racism, poverty, imperialism, gentrification #ReclaimMLK @BLM_Boston pic.twitter.com/UCuT7Kc5LT — Liza Behrendt (@lizaveta9) January 18, 2016 Via Truthout.org: Increasingly, there are calls to “Reclaim King” as a radical. It is true that his assertion of Black peoples’ right to life, dignity and reparations was revolutionary.He recognized the …
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San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr woke up to a rousing chorus of demonstrators Monday morning, joining the growing chorus urging their respective resignations. Via SF Examiner Protesters lined the block where Suhr lives with a small row of effigies of dead bodies and invited the …
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A Georgia Cop recently told a black driver “I don’t care about your people” and “Go back to Fulton County cuz, you’re pissing me off” simply in response to the driver asking if he was free to go after receiving a speeding ticket. The response from Cobb County Police? Not …
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“You’re going to end up like Sandra Bland” and “The day you get above a 90 average I’ll grow an Afro” are just two of the countless documented examples of overt racism and discrimination experienced by black students at Brooklyn Tech. The public high school, which is the largest high …
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In what has been described as “an absolutely unreasonable shooting” by legal experts, a new video has been released showing the final moments of Cameron Massey before he was fatally shot by officers from the town of Eufala, Alabama. Massey, 26 and unarmed, is seen in the video sitting in …
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Ah, casual racism in the media rears its ugly head once again. Once again, the source is our favorite culprit and never ending melange of white privilege, Fox News! Employing the “I can’t be racist I have a black friend” and “It didn’t come from me, but a black person …
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We’ve consistently seen our criminal justice system behave much more benevolently when the defendants are law enforcement officers: Are the Freddie Gray trials just the latest example? Via Slate: Jury selection in the trial of Officer Caesar Goodson, who drove the van in which Freddie Gray was allegedly killed, lasted …
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At what point do we as a society look in the mirror and realize that progress isn’t inevitable? At what point do we realize that direct actions are needed to bring about real, lasting change for all Americans brutalized by our criminal justice/law enforcement systems? Immediately, we can only hope… …
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