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Loving corrections - Adrienne Maree Brown
Loving corrections - Adrienne Maree Brown
"Ethical, pondering, and wondrous, adrienne maree brown's Loving Corrections is a collection of love-based adjustments and reframes to grow our movements for liberation while navigating a society deeply fractured by greed, racism, and war. In this landmark book, brown invigorates her influential writing on belonging and accountability into the framework of "loving corrections": a generative space where rehearsals for the revolution become the everyday norm in relating to one another. Filled with practical wisdom on how to be a trustworthy communicator while providing bold visions for a shared future, Loving Corrections can speak to everyone caught in the crossroads of our political challenges and potential. No matter how new to the struggle, or how numerous our failures, brown's indispensable writing is an invitation to us all."--
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Loving corrections - Adrienne Maree Brown
Just Mercy: Race and the Criminal Justice System with Bryan Stevenson
Just Mercy: Race and the Criminal Justice System with Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson, acclaimed public interest lawyer and founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative delivers the 2016 Anne and Loren Kieve Distinguished Speaker Lecture on race and the criminal justice system. A roundtable conversation featuring Jennifer Eberhardt, Gary Segura, Robert Weisberg, JD ’79, Bryan Stevenson, and Katie Couric follows Bryan Stevenson's keynote address. OpenXChange is a year-long, student-focused initiative on campus that aims to encourage meaningful dialogue around tough issues. This is the first in a series of discussions with Stanford faculty and global experts on criminal justice, inequality and international conflict. This event was recorded on Wednesday, Jan 13, 2016
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Just Mercy: Race and the Criminal Justice System with Bryan Stevenson
Association of Research Libraries Condemns Racism and Violence against Black Communities, Supports Protests against Police Brutality - Association of Research Libraries
Association of Research Libraries Condemns Racism and Violence against Black Communities, Supports Protests against Police Brutality - Association of Research Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) stands firmly with people throughout the world protesting police brutality and systemic oppression following the recent, brutal killings of Black Americans including George Floyd in Minnesota, Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky.
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Association of Research Libraries Condemns Racism and Violence against Black Communities, Supports Protests against Police Brutality - Association of Research Libraries
Critical Resistance
Critical Resistance
Critical Resistance uses a chapter structure that helps us to draw on local and regional knowledge, culture, and history in order to combat the ever-moving, ever-changing nature of the prison industrial complex. Local chapters develop their own projects and campaigns while coordinating and communicating with sister chapters and other members that make up CR’s national organization. Our national organization supplies our work with resources, infrastructural support, political education, fundraising support, technology, trainings and a network of prison industrial complex abolitionists throughout the world.
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Critical Resistance
Bodycam video shows fatal shooting of teen with autism as he approaches California deputy with a gardening tool | CNN
Bodycam video shows fatal shooting of teen with autism as he approaches California deputy with a gardening tool | CNN
California sheriff’s deputies fatally shot a teenager with autism who was holding a gardening tool over the weekend, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department and a family attorney said.
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Bodycam video shows fatal shooting of teen with autism as he approaches California deputy with a gardening tool | CNN
Courage in the People's House : nine trailblazing Representatives who shaped America - Joe Neguse
Courage in the People's House : nine trailblazing Representatives who shaped America - Joe Neguse
"Courage in the People's House tells the gripping stories of nine individuals who served in the US House of Representatives--the "People's House"--During a span of over one hundred years, from the 1870s to the 1990s. From the first African American to serve in the House, to immigrants elected at the dawn of the 20th century, all were trailblazers who made significant contributions to the country"--
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Courage in the People's House : nine trailblazing Representatives who shaped America - Joe Neguse
Introducing the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law
Introducing the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law
NYU Law students start the conversation regarding a new initiative led by Professor Anthony Thompson. Learn more: http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/race-inequality-law
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Introducing the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law
The Gathering For Justice
The Gathering For Justice
THE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE IS A 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATION FOUNDED IN 2005 BY HARRY BELAFONTE AFTER HE WITNESSED A NEWS REPORT OF A 5 YEAR OLD BLACK GIRL BEING HANDCUFFED AND ARRESTED IN HER FLORIDA CLASSROOM FOR “BEING UNRULY”. THE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE’S MISSION IS TO BUILD A MOVEMENT TO END CHILD INCARCERATION WHILE WORKING TO ELIMINATE THE RACIAL INEQUITIES THAT PERMEATE THE JUSTICE SYSTEM.
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The Gathering For Justice
This List Of Books Films And Podcasts About Racism Is A Start Not A Panacea - Code Switch
This List Of Books Films And Podcasts About Racism Is A Start Not A Panacea - Code Switch
"To help people be better allies lists of antiracist books films and podcasts are being published in droves. There's never a bad time to learn but such a list can become erroneously prescriptive a balm to centuries-old lacerations that cut deeper than the individual reader. As Lauren Michele Jackson wrote for Vulture "The word [anti-racism] and its nominal equivalent "anti-racist" suggests something of a vanity project where the goal is no longer to learn more about race power and capital but to spring closer to the enlightened order of the antiracist." So with that in mind we've compiled a list of books films and podcasts about systemic racism acknowledging that they are just books films and podcasts. You'll find research on how racism permeates everything from the criminal justice system to health care. We hope you spend some time with these resources (and that you listen to Code Switch — here's a list of episodes to get you started). Information is power — you decide what you do with it."
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This List Of Books Films And Podcasts About Racism Is A Start Not A Panacea - Code Switch
No fascist USA! : the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and lessons for today's movements - Hilary Moore; James Tracy; Robin D. G. Kelley
No fascist USA! : the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and lessons for today's movements - Hilary Moore; James Tracy; Robin D. G. Kelley
"How a national grassroots network fought a resurgence of the KKK and other fascist groups during the Reagan years, and how it laid the groundwork for today's anti-fascist/anti-racist movements."--
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No fascist USA! : the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and lessons for today's movements - Hilary Moore; James Tracy; Robin D. G. Kelley
Black Lives Matter v. Donald Trump
Black Lives Matter v. Donald Trump
On June 1, federal police used tear gas and rubber bullets to clear protesters from Lafayette Square in front of the White House. News outlets documented the police's use of force, now the subject of a lawsuit filed by Black Lives Matter D.C. and several protesters who returned to the scene a week later to tell their stories.
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Black Lives Matter v. Donald Trump
Police Brutality Against Black Women
Police Brutality Against Black Women
Author(s): Lawson, Madison | Abstract: In this argumentative research essay, the idea of an intersectional lens is used examine the class and race of women who are victims of police brutality. With stories of African-American women in low economic cities, it is clear that minority women are more likely to fall victim due to their neighborhood they live in and because of their stereotype of being weak. African-American women are being sexually assaulted and murdered by police and then never receive justice because the media, who can share the story often; however, their stories are never told. In this essay, stories of different types of police assault are told to elucidate the harsh reality that black women face in their own neighborhoods.
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Police Brutality Against Black Women
Non Lethal Group
Non Lethal Group
Our goal is simple: we will research, develop, test and mandate the use of an effective non-lethal weapon for America’s police
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Non Lethal Group
White homeowner accused of shooting Black teen who went to the wrong house in Kansas City will face 2 felony charges, officials announce | CNN
White homeowner accused of shooting Black teen who went to the wrong house in Kansas City will face 2 felony charges, officials announce | CNN
A White 85-year-old homeowner who allegedly shot and wounded Ralph Yarl, a Black teen, after the 16-year-old went to the wrong home to pick up his siblings will face two felony charges.
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White homeowner accused of shooting Black teen who went to the wrong house in Kansas City will face 2 felony charges, officials announce | CNN
Incarcerated resistance : how identity, gender, and privilege shape the experiences of America's nonviolent activists - Anya Stanger
Incarcerated resistance : how identity, gender, and privilege shape the experiences of America's nonviolent activists - Anya Stanger
"Grounded in the lives of some of its most committed nonviolent activists, Incarcerated Resistance tells a story of anti-war resistance, what it means to "go to jail for justice" in the contemporary United States, and shows how identity matters in both the activation of prison witness, and as a key shaper of individual experience"--
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Incarcerated resistance : how identity, gender, and privilege shape the experiences of America's nonviolent activists - Anya Stanger
John Lewis: Funeral held for late congressman and civil rights icon in Atlanta | FULL
John Lewis: Funeral held for late congressman and civil rights icon in Atlanta | FULL
The funeral for the late civil rights icon John Lewis was held at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Thursday, capping off a six-day celebration of life honouring the congressman. Lewis died on July 17 at the age of 80. Three former presidents joined in the eulogies after nearly a week of mourning that took him from his birthplace in Alabama to the nation’s capital of Washington to his final resting place in his home of Atlanta. “I’ve come here today because I like so many Americans owe a great debt to John Lewis and his forceful vision of freedom,” former President Barack Obama said. Former president George W. Bush said from the pulpit that Lewis “always believed in preaching the Gospel in word and in deed, insisting that hate and fear had to be answered with love and hope." Former president Bill Clinton and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi also spoke. Pelosi recalled how Lewis’ body was lying in state at the U.S. Capitol earlier this week, and a double rainbow appeared. “He was telling us, ‘I’m home in heaven, I’m home in heaven.’ We always knew he worked on the side of angels and now he is with them," she said. A memorial service at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Monday drew Congressional leaders from both parties. Lewis was the first Black lawmaker to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda. Shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday, his flag-draped casket was carried down the Capitol steps and placed in a hearse as people watched solemnly, many with their hands on their hearts. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/7234348/barack-obama-john-lewis-funeral/ Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB #JohnLewis #JohnLewisFuneral #USPolitics #GlobalNews
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John Lewis: Funeral held for late congressman and civil rights icon in Atlanta | FULL
Black America & Public Opinion | Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Black America & Public Opinion | Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
As we reflect on racism and anti-racism, the Roper Center continues to identify and make available all public opinion surveys of Black Americans in the Roper data archive. We highlight these surveys of Black Americans, dating back to 1945, to remember and amplify the voices of these individuals. We have also made available more than eight decades of public opinion data on how the U.S. public views Black America. These data provide historical insight into how racial attitudes have changed in the United States and how the public currently views topics such as police brutality, race relations, and social movements for racial equality. We are making all of this data, which can be accessed below, freely available to the public.
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Black America & Public Opinion | Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
What climate justice means and why we should care - Elizabeth Cripps
What climate justice means and why we should care - Elizabeth Cripps
We owe it to our fellow humans - and other species - to save them from the catastrophic harm caused by climate change. Philosopher Elizabeth Cripps approaches climate justice not just as an abstract idea but as something that should motivate us all. Using clear reasoning and poignant examples, starting from irrefutable science and uncontroversial moral rules, she explores our obligations to each other and to the non-human world, unravels the legacy of colonialism and entrenched racism, and makes the case for immediate action. The second half of the book looks at solutions. Who should pay the bill for climate action? Who must have a say? How can we hold multinational companies, organisations - even nations - to account? Cripps argues powerfully that climate justice goes beyond political polarization. Climate activism is a moral duty, not a political choice.
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What climate justice means and why we should care - Elizabeth Cripps
Rep. John Lewis and the Prince George's County Memorial Library System
Rep. John Lewis and the Prince George's County Memorial Library System
Marsha Quarles of the Prince George's County Memorial Library System reflects on Rep. John Lewis and other authors who have visited PGCMLS over the years. Visit http://www.pgcmls.info/anti-racism to access resources about Rep. John Lewis.
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Rep. John Lewis and the Prince George's County Memorial Library System
The Law and Social Science of Stop and Frisk
The Law and Social Science of Stop and Frisk
In 1968, almost 50 years ago, the Supreme Court validated, in a case called Terry v. Ohio (1968), a common police practice known as stop and frisk, so long as an officer could justify the action on the basis of a newly developed standard: reasonable suspicion. Today, policing agencies use stop and frisk prophylactically, stopping in some cities tens or even hundreds of thousands of people annually. These developments and the litigation around the strategy in New York City and elsewhere provide an opportunity to revisit Terry and to consider recent research in law and social science regarding stop and frisk. This review focuses on three issues: the evolution of legal doctrine pertaining to stop and frisk, arguments regarding the effectiveness of stop and frisk as a mechanism to control and reduce crime, and a delineation of the relevance of the theory of procedural justice to our understanding of the interleaving of the law and social science of stop and frisk.
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The Law and Social Science of Stop and Frisk
Decarcerate PA
Decarcerate PA
Decarcerate PA is a grassroots campaign working to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania. We demand that PA stop building prisons, reduce the prison population, and reinvest money in our communities.
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Decarcerate PA