A panel of representatives from the U.N. Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent listen to residents during a session at Chicago State University. Photo: Saidia Therapylady
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Watch Stanford Alumni Association’s 1/13 Just Mercy: Race and the Criminal Justice System on Livestream.com. Roundtable conversation featuring Bryan Stevenson, Jennifer Eberhardt, Gary Segura, Robert Weisberg, JD ’79, and Katie Couric. 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.
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Bryan Stevenson is a power house for social justice. He’s a defense attorney and author with 21 honorary doctorate degrees. Listen closely to what he’s telling us. The auditorium was packed, including the overflow room. I was sent away with this link to the live stream.
Round Rock, TX — A decision to clear a cop of all wrongdoing after he choked out and body slammed a 14-year-old boy has the community up in arms.
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#BlackOnCampus (2015) is a Twitter hashtag that went viral this week in the wake of protests against racism at US universities – Yale, Mizzou and, now, at Ithaca College. In all three cases, those in authority refused to face up to the racism at their universities.
Racism at universities is nothing new: PWIs (Predominately White Institutions) have always been racist. First by not admitting Blacks at all, then by making them and other students of colour feel unwelcomed and unsafe, turning a blind eye to the racism they face, writing it off as “isolated incidents”, being “oversensitive” and so on.
Black Twitter weighs in:
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Hunger strike, football strike, protests produce a dramatic, likely unprecedented, result at #Mizzou https://t.co/5pbzqETIKf
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 9, 2015
Federal agents bust up plot by Virginia white supremacists to shoot up black churches to start a race war https://t.co/SgUZ3Amh8n
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) November 10, 2015
BREAKING: Driven to hospital, Virginia man tased, shackled and dies in police custody. Our investigation: https://t.co/5G5latvtef
#VATasing
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) November 11, 2015
#BlackOnCampus highlights racism on college campuses across the country: https://t.co/i36kRawCLG pic.twitter.com/QblC05BI5A
— ABC News (@ABC) November 12, 2015
By Tall N Curly
These past two weeks alone I got four messages from four girls who all basically asked me the same thing: “How am I going to survive being different.”
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Missouri football players vow to boycott in protest of university president's handling of racial tensions on campus https://t.co/2YZD9bZ2fq
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 8, 2015
mizzou is showing u what the "or else" looks like, right now.
— a (@nonbinarynegro) November 8, 2015
RT @GaryPinkel: The Mizzou Family stands as one. We are united. We are behind our players. #ConcernedStudent1950 GP pic.twitter.com/JPZTCFXOAr
— Baltimore BLOC (@BmoreBloc) November 8, 2015
#TeachingRacism (2015) is a Twitter hashtag where people tweet examples of how racism is taught. Unlike in the picture above, racism almost never wears a white hood
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On our watch, the United States has become the incarceration nation.
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Cal State: require Professor who denies genocide to attend Native students forum…
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— Delores Schilling (@DelSchilling) September 18, 2015