A Dallas police officer involved in the shooting of a mentally ill man that was caught on camera has been fired.
See on www.cnn.com
Month: October 2013
ethnic contributions
“Other cultures are valued only to the degree that they help white people. They do not have value in their own right.”
Community Village‘s insight:
And how often do we hear about the bad inventions of Europeans? The inventions that kill more people faster.
See on abagond.wordpress.com
Gradient Lair – Kick Ass Blog
“ Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s Street Art Confronts Sexual Harassment”
STOP STREET HARASSMENT. Love this campaign.
Community Village‘s insight:
Gradient Lair is one of the most well organized and laser focused blogs I’ve ever seen from an individual (one owner) blog.
Here’s a paragraph from her Bio page:
“I am college-educated. I have a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice and I completed 2 years of additional graduate work in Psychology and Mental Health Counseling. I studied race, gender and adolescent mental health/education and I have a lot of interest in how media/culture impact this. I studied Behavioral and Social Sciences at the baccalaureate level.” –Trudy
See on www.gradientlair.com
Giving Grassroots Leaders a Voice – Ford Pt2
“Glen Ford, Exec. Editor of Black Agenda Report, talks about helping create black radio news. He says that news media creates leaders by deciding what events are important and who is authorized to speak on the importance of those events – October 24, 2013″
See on therealnews.com
Incarceration in America: The Inside Story
“BOOKD profiles, The New Jim Crow, legal scholar Michelle Alexander’s breakthrough book about the rise of mass incarceration in America. Alexander agues that “by targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control.
See as a Yale Law Professor, Community Activists, and hip hop legend Talib Kweli debate and discuss this provocative and important book.”
See on www.youtube.com
Corporations Reap Billions from Mass Incarceration Pt 2
What companies are profiting off of prisoners and mass incarceration?
Community Village‘s insight:
See on www.youtube.com
Growing Up Black in American Apartheid – Ford Pt1
“On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay: Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, tells his story as a red-diaper baby, growing up facing racism in the North living with his white activist mother, and living in the Deep South with his black deejay father – October 24, 2013″
Community Village‘s insight:
See on therealnews.com
THE NEW JIM CROW Online documentary
“Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”
Community Village‘s insight:
See on www.youtube.com
Decolonizing Media
ferrarisheppard:
“ European Colonialism 1500-2000 A.D.
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WORD.
Community Village‘s insight:
See on decolonizingmedia.tumblr.com
The 40 Year Solitary Confinement of Herman Wallace
“The injustice of his conviction speaks volumes about how broken our criminal justice system is, but his solitary confinement says even more about who we are as a society. The freedom of Mr. Wallace and so many others still being held in such circumstances is not all that has been lost through this cruel and unusual form of punishment.”
See on www.racefiles.com