While today’s verdict is a small win for police accountability and may help heal a grieving community, the systems that allowed George to be murdered — ripping him away from his family and the communities that loved him so much — remain fully intact.
Exactly what I needed this morning. May y’all go into this week with as much ferocity as Mother Monster. @ladygaga, brava. 👏🏻🤯 Thank you for your talent & love. (@ArianaGrande, 🙌🏻✨!) #MondayMotivation
Diversity is who is in the room.
Inclusion is who has influence in that room.
Anti-racism is a mindset, way of being, and goal for a group of people in a room.
These are not interchangeable terms.
shout-out to millennials, who now have lived through 9/11, two illegal wars, two major recessions, a literal plague, and probably some deep shit about your gender
Here are 14 recommendations for fundamental police reform in the United States.
Improve public safety by reducing policing, investing in communities.
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“That’s bigger than basketball to me," Giannis Antetokounmpo said of the conversation the Milwaukee Bucks had this week with Jacob Blake's family. "We’re going to remember the way we felt for the rest of our lives.” https://t.co/rACfeqFCNR
Ryan Coogler shares this remembrance of Chadwick Boseman. “He was calm. Assured. Constantly studying. But also kind, comforting, had the warmest laugh in the world, and eyes that seen much beyond his years, but could still sparkle like a child seeing something for the first time”
So I am only just realizing that brilliant kid in my Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs course at Howard University back way back in 1999 was Chadwick Boseman. He wrote original Ancient Egyptian poetry that I got to see him present in a hip hop drama performance. He just extraordinary.