““I wouldn’t give up. No matter that they sentenced me to three life terms in prison. I wouldn’t give up. Just because a jury of 12 misinformed people… found me guilty. And because I was not guilty I refused to act like a guilty person.”
– Rubin “Hurricane” Carter”
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When you press play it should jump to around the 1:01:00 mark where Tyson answers a question for about 4 or 5 minutes.
Thank you to @TheCharlesiWas for sharing this.
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Sign the ColorOfChange.Org petition and demand the D.O.J. to take immediate action by seeing to it that NYPD Officer Richard Haste is put away where he can no longer harm unarmed teenagers on the s…
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“3. The level of hateful tweets went from zero to off the charts. With many of these trolls, I would respond once and then block them, or just block them. One such troll, @vincentBrook666, tweeted the following to me in all caps.”
Thank you to Martha Wood for tweeting about this.
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New York state has the most segregated public schools in the nation, with many black and Latino students attending schools with virtually no white classmates, according to a report released Wednesday.
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A California woman says she was asked to cover up while working out at her gym because she was intimidating people.
How is really harassing who here?
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“Rosewood was a Black town in the American state of Florida that was burned to the ground in 1923 by Whites. The state of Florida says eight died: six Blacks, two Whites. Survivors say between 40 to 150 died, nearly all of them Black. Several eyewitnesses saw a mass grave of Blacks with maybe 27 bodies, but to date it has not been found.
No Whites were ever charged with a crime, ”
If you click through to the full article, make sure to read the last line.
People to this day still try to blame Black and Brown people for problems that are not caused by Black and Brown people.
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In “The Warmth of Other Suns,” Isabel Wilkerson documents the sweeping 55-year-long migration of black Americans from the South.
The awesome book documents the migration of African Americans from the South of the U.S. to the North and West of the U.S. once they had the freedom to move after slavery was abolished.
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Experts say the situation may be difficult to change because of longstanding cultural and socio-economic factors.
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“Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan told a crowd of 18,000 in Detroit on Sunday that African-Americans should set up their own courts after being failed by the U.S.’ own justice system.
“Our people can’t take much more. We have to have our own courts. You failed us,” Farrakhan said during the keynote speech of 2014’s annual Nation of Islam Saviours’ Day convention, according to the Detroit Free Press.
“How long must we let people stand their ground, shooting us and getting away with it while we don’t get justice?” Farrakhan told the crowd, referencing stand your ground laws in several states. “We want justice. Equal justice under the law. We want the federal government to intercede to see that black people get justice in accordance with the law. Otherwise, I’m going on record with this today … we have to have our own courts.”
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