John Leguizamo Says High School History Makes Latinos Feel ‘Invisible’

Latino contributions to U.S. history remain largely absent from high school history books, and John Leguizamo is doing something about it. The 51-year-old actor and comedian sat down with HuffPost Live’s

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‘I Don’t Want To Die In Your Cell’; Hours Later, Woman Found Dead in Jail – DiversityInc

New video footage shows 37-year-old Ralkina Jones expressing fear for her life while held in jail, only to be discovered unresponsive on July 26.

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Condolences to the parents, family and friends of #RalkinaJones

Obama plan leaves child migrants adrift

By David Rogers

 

One year later, child migrants from Central America are still paying a heavy price for President Barack Obama’s decision last summer to rush them into deportation proceedings without first taking steps to provide legal counsel.

New government data this week offer a first, full-year tally for the immigration courts, and the numbers show that among the 13,451 cases completed since July 18, 2014, barely half the children had legal representation.

The picture has improved over time, but in 38 percent of the cases completed since last Christmas, the child was still without counsel. Even since mid-April, there have been an average of 100 case completions per week in which there is no record of a defense attorney.

At one level, this picture is skewed by the stubbornly high level of deportation orders issued by judges “in absentia,” when the child defendant does not appear in court. But migrant rights attorneys argue that this is a Catch-22 situation: Without access to counsel, more children stay away and have no realistic chance of appeal.

 

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Freedom of movement. No double standards.

Family of #ZacharyHammond, age 19, killed by police demands federal probe

The family of police shooting victim Zachary Hammond request federal intervention into his death.

 

…an attorney for Hammond’s family says an independent autopsy commissioned by the family determined that the car wasn’t moving when the teen was shot in the back.

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Justice for unarmed #ZacharyHammond age 19

 

Condolences to the parents.

Unarmed Black Americans killed by police in 2015

Here is a somewhat complete list of unarmed Blacks killed by police in the US in 2015. So far.

Unarmed Blacks are five times more likely to be killed by police than unarmed Whites. Unarmed Native Americans too are killed by police at almost the same rate as Blacks. Everyone else is killed at a way lower rate, even Latinos.

Those I have done posts on have a bolded link.

format: date: name, age, town, state, cause of death

 

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All #BlackLivesMatter all day every day.

 

This is genocide.

The Babies – Jasiri X

“The Babies” was produced by Idasa Tariq, shot by Haute Muslim, edited by Jasiri X, and features performances by A. King, Jannah Johari, L.U.C., Idasa Tariq, Paradise Gray, and Akil Esoon and artwork by D.S. Kinsel inspired by #chalkedunarmed

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Condolences to the hundreds of parents who loose their children to oppressive U.S. police.

 

Do we need to provide our children with bullet proof vests? This wouldn’t even help because police are shooting our children in the head. In the head America. The police are shooting our children in the head.

Another death in Mexico: Man who led search for the missing

The leader of a civilian group that has spent the last 10 months searching for bodies of 43 missing students and others in the hills of Mexico’s Guerrero state was found shot to death in his taxi, authorities said.

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Oppression and Suppression

The Problem We All Live With [racism] | This American Life

Right now, all sorts of people are trying to rethink and reinvent education, to get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids. But there’s one thing nobody tries anymore, despite a lot of evidence that it works- desegregation. This week, Nikole Hannah-Jones looks at a district in Missouri that, just a few years ago, accidentally launched a desegregation program. It’s the first of a two-part series.

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People are even racist against children. America’s racist attitude is deep. Racism is a serious problem. What are we doing to fix the problem of racism?

 

Why doesn’t This American Life say ‘get poor kids performing as well as Asian kids’?

 

Notice that This American Life reinforces the doctrine of White Supremacy with their choice of words, even while reporting a story about exposing racism.

 

Many reporters say that Black and Latino kids should perform in school as White kids. Reporters make the issue sound racial rather than economic.

 

Reporters also erase the story of high performing Asian students and never say that low performing White students should perform as well as high performing Asian students.

 

PS – We sometimes hear main stream media blame parents of Black and Latino kids for anything their child does wrong. Yet we do not hear the police being blamed for killing the parent(s).

 

Also, when a White shooter goes on a rampage, are the White parents blamed by main stream media?

‘Black Lives Matter’ Activists Disrupt Bernie Sanders Speech

‘Black Lives Matter’ Activists Disrupt Bernie Sanders Speech

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#BlackLivesMatter RIGHT NOW! ALL DAY. EVERY DAY.
White privilege doesn’t get it. Segregated White people do not have family members who are getting lynched every 28 hours.

If we don’t get it (JUSTICE)! SHUT IT DOWN!