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Blackademics/Language Arts: Sean Bell Tribute
Published on 25 Apr 2008 at 7:03 pm.
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Filed under racism, violence, police brutality, healing.
I created this Sean Bell tribute in response to the outrageous “not guilty” verdict passed today. I recorded the original song, “Don’t Push” back in 2006, when the incident first occurred. Rest in Peace, brother.
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Not Guilty: Sean Bell’s NYPD Murderers Walk
Published on 25 Apr 2008 at 2:25 pm.
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Today the NYPD officers who slaughtered an unarmed father of two named Sean Bell received a verdict of Not Guilty. A New York State Supreme Court judge cleared officers Mike Oliver, Marc Cooper and Gescard Isnora of manslaughter and reckless endangerment this morning.
On November 25, 2006, Sean Bell was murdered on the day before […]
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Mumia Abu Jamal: Either Life Sentence or a New Hearing
Published on 28 Mar 2008 at 6:41 pm.
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Mumia Abu Jamal, a former memeber of the Black Panther Party was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner by a (nearly) all white jury. This controversial trail has been the center of international debates on the death penalty, the prison industrial complex, and racism in the American […]
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Africans are “less intelligent,” says Nobel Prize laureate
Published on 20 Oct 2007 at 11:39 pm.
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Molecular biologist Dr. James Watson shared the 1962 Nobel prize for medicine with Francis Crick and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins for their description of the double helix structure of DNA. Is it possible that Watson’s findings also concluded that the genetic structure of Europeans is fundamentally different than that of people of African descent? A […]
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Tonight, on the 10 o’clock Noose
Published on 12 Oct 2007 at 2:59 pm.
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The heightened racial tension spurned by the controversial Jena 6 trial has had many impacts on both White communities and communities of color. On one hand, it has raised the level of consciousness among the youth. You see evidence of this in the students who wear black in solidarity to take a stance against injustice, […]
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U.S. Judicial System: Falling Through the Crack
Published on 6 Oct 2007 at 10:42 am.
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This week the Supreme Court addressed a case, which brought the issue of the disparity in sentencing between powder cocaine and crack cocaine into the forefront of national politics. For those of you who aren’t aware of the imbalance, it goes a little something like this: federal law enforces a 100-to-1 disparity between crack […]
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Mychal Bell Goes Home
Published on 28 Sep 2007 at 3:33 pm.
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Filed under racism, black culture, black image, collective action.
Mychal Bell, a central figure in the saga that is the ‘Jena 6,’ posted a $45,000 bail today and has returned home to await trial in juvenile court on charges of assault in December.
His release comes after the widely-regarded protests that took place in the Louisiana town two weeks ago, calling for justice in a […]
Jena 6 National Day of Action: Take Action, Wear Black!
Published on 20 Sep 2007 at 1:08 am.
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We’ve already written extensively about the Jena 6. Long story short, six young black men in Jena, Louisiana are facing 20+ year prison sentences in a clear case of neo-Jim Crow “justice.” If you need a recap, look back at our posts, 20 Years for a School Yard Brawl? or Subtle racism versus ‘Ima lynch […]
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French President Sarkozy reminds us that “the African has not fully entered into history” and Mbeki writes him a congratulatory letter
Published on 16 Sep 2007 at 12:47 pm.
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Filed under racism, news/politics, diaspora, history, Africa.
I couldn’t make this stuff up if I wanted to. About a month ago, French President Sarkozy spoke at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar where he asserted (among other equally myopic, ahistorical, neocolonial and racists arguments) that:
The problem of Africa, and allow a friend of Africa to say it, is to be found here. […]
UVA Newspaper Shows Cultural Insensitivity
Published on 10 Sep 2007 at 11:14 pm.
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Filed under racism, ignorance, poverty, Africa.
The Cavalier Daily, an independent newspaper on the University of Virginia’s campus, has left many students of color in uproar. The newspaper’s resident cartoonist, Grant Woolard, has made a number of offensive cartoons around both race and religion during his tenure. However, it was his most recent cartoon “Ethiopian Food Fight” that has left the […]
