So even as folks rattle off statistics about unarmed people who are shot by police it’s a gross understatement of how widespread & frequent the violence is. And that’s just police encounters in the streets. That’s not even all the folks killed in jail.
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Now live! Catch Fitchburg Art Museum's exhibition "After Spiritualism" in action on the latest episode of @OpenStudioWGBH. Hear host Jared Bowen sit down for interviews with Director Nick Capasso and Artist Keith Morris Washington. https://t.co/TPedCTBeis
Tweet this after seeing news of folks being been shot by armed white men, go to sleep, wake up & see this headline. Like effing clockwork, the white establishment can be relied upon to do what it’s done for centuries. https://t.co/7WMLBtCKB3
Thinking about the farm workers in California right now who continue to work through this heat wave and pandemic to put food on the table for the American people. Grateful for their work, not just today but every day.
Why aren’t cops being held accountable? Police unions.
“The police have a history of cracking heads on picket lines, and yet anytime you try to lean into a reform, they recede into this labor solidarity movement that they’ve never been a part of.” https://t.co/lmqS5B67Df
@greezyM60@novapbs "In the future, the team is thinking about acquiring artificial intelligence to send a malleable robot through small holes to explore the insides of these structures." I also want to watch that! 🤠
On the next #UnitedShades we're in New Orleans, & we're talking Reparations.
Yup, I said, Reprations.✊🏿
Watch it this Sunday, August 16 at 10p ET / 7p PT on @cnn.
Every person taken by police violence leaves a family behind.
Months after Breonna Taylor’s murder, her sister still struggles with grief.
We must continue to fight for justice not just for Breonna, but for her mother, sister, and all who loved her.
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‼️ Political bias played a role in which states got PPE & ventilators from the feds
‼️ Nat'l testing plan reportedly axed b/c COVID was a blue-state problem
‼️ Trump took COVID seriously after it hit “our people” in red states
More from @forensicnewsnet https://t.co/un34xq63ru
Trump’s racist tweet about a “Suburban Lifestyle Dream” is exactly why we must lead on a new Southern Strategy. The politics of hate, lies, and fear have crippled generations.
Our enemy is not one another, but a system that profits from poverty and inequity.
The real swamp.
"the hostility of white laborers toward abolitionism & their failure to develop a labor abolitionism, was not an expression of working-class resentment of bourgeois philanthropists but the reflection of their refusal to view themselves as part of a class with the slaves..."
“I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) https://t.co/bA1lA7S8vI
Robert E Lee's son received compensation for his father's house being "illegally confiscated" during the Civil War. Can you think of anything else that was illegally confiscated, and does anyone else deserve compensation?
I started this story last fall for @GENmag after reading @angela_denker's Red State Christians. So much has changed over these months in our country, but it's offered a window into many women's faith and political thinking. https://t.co/WnC0CwDOxj
Call to Action:
We need as many folks as possible to tune in today at 4PM EST for NJ Attorney General's Listening Session on NJ Use of Force Policy.
Ya'll, it aint been updated in over 20 years. Speak out on why it needs to change and why we need to end qualified immunity.