December 2011
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“This is life row, one that I also intend to transcend”
– Mumia Abu Jamal in a letter to me from a new prison, where he’s finally in general population… (via dreamhampton1)
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Bruised but defiant: Mona Eltahawy on her assault... →
fashionistazapatista:
The price of protest: writer Mona Eltahawy with her arms in casts after they were broken by Egyptian security forces in Cairo. ‘Our dictators tailor wounds to suit their victims’ occupations,’ she says. Photograph: Dan Callister for the Guardian
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Today we remember the Lakota men, women, and...
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All I Want For Christmas Is Change I Can Believe...
Dear Barack:
The season is upon us when we’re starting to hear all the familiar jingles. I feel an imminent blizzard, deluging us from all directions, deep enough to truly snow us over.
Seems like only yesterday, the air was filled with the sounds of Hope, Hope, Hope.
You lit our imaginations, like a massive Christmas tree brimming with sparkly ornaments, dangling with promises. Peace....
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The 2012 Attack on Reproductive Rights Will Trade... →
I’m not a psychic, cable news pundit or even a Sunday morning talk show guest. But based on how key race and gender matters played out in 2011, and the looming presidential election, I think 2012 is going to be a year of battles royale for basic reproductive health rights that many of us take for granted.
And trust, women of color are a major piece of the anti-choice agenda. Look no further...
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WatchSomething is Killing Tate
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Black Teens and Suicide: For the Love of Siwe →
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Proactive Consumer: Lowe's and other advertisers... →
proactiveconsumer:
Lowe’s Hardware and three dozen other advertisers recently pulled advertising from the new TLC reality show, “American Muslim”. The decision to pull their advertising follows a smear campaign initiated by infamous Islamophobes Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer.
TLC has recently been targeted…
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Russell Simmons Trying to Buy Ad Time During...
lth:
Russell Simmons Trying to Buy Ad Time During ‘All-American Muslim’
Hip-hop mogul and practicing Buddhist Russell Simmons is throwing his financial support behind the TLC reality series “All-American Muslim,” tweeting on Monday that he is trying to purchase ad time during this week’s episode of the show. Read more here: http://aareports.com/2011/12/russell-simmons-trying-to-buy-ad-time.html
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“Racism and the will to survive it creates a sense of intra-racial loyalty that...”
– Joan Morgan, Hip Hop Feminist. (via unapproachableblackchicks)
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The Scars of Slavery →
lati-negros:
via Science Daily:
The diaspora of Afro-descendants in Mexico and Central America takes on many guises, as reflected in names used such as Colonial Blacks, Afro-Antilleans, Garifuna. Status and levels of social recognition and integration are highly diverse and this distinguishes the countries of this region from the rest of the Latin-American continent. Researchers from the...
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“You find this sort of thing a lot among the white, moneyed, conservative set:...”
– An Ode to a ‘Poor Black Kid’ I Never Knew: How Forbes Gets Poverty Wrong - News - GOOD
Great response to the column published by Gene Marks.
(via sexualassumptions)
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Streaming Live - Free Mumia Gathering in Philly →
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“I’m frankly quite impressed with Occupy Wall Street, for it did in three months...”
– - Mumian Abu Jamal speaks to dream hampton on the Occupy Movement
http://lifeandtimes.com/lock-my-body-cant-trap-my-mind
(via jonubian)
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