Fight Back (2023-02-20). How an unelected review board enables the NYPD's abuse. fightbacknews.org New York, NY – Nearly three years after the George Floyd uprising of 2020, New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) has released the findings of its investigations into the New York Police Department's misconduct during the protests. But rather than addressing the increasing brutality of the cops, the results of the investigations show how an unelected, ineffective review board becomes a tool of the state that harms communities and activists while empowering the police. | From the very beginning, the CCRB's ability to investigate complaints of police misconduct during the 2020 protests was severely…
Kyle K. Moore, Economic Policy Institute. (2023-02-20). Five Principles For Making State And Local Reparations Plans Reparative. popularresistance.org We are still living in the aftermath of 2020's overlapping crises of racial injustice, our nation's polycrisis. Between the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ensuing economic recession, and the public police murder of George Floyd, we saw a harsh truth about the structure of American political economy: White supremacy has shaped our institutions such that their outcome is consistent Black precarity and premature death. | This confluence of tragedies brought awareness of the Black American condition to a new generation. It also reinvigorated interest among academics and policymakers to finally do something a…
Rachel Evans (2023-02-20). First Nations activists call for an end to the racist practice of stealing Black children. greenleft.org.au The practice of stealing Aboriginal children from their families has continued since Kevin Rudd's apology and it needs to stop, a Sorry Day protest was told. Rachel Evans reports.
Herb Boyd, Don Rojas (2023-02-21). Was Malcolm X Betrayed By an African American CIA Agent Posing as a Mozambican Freedom Fighter? covertactionmagazine.com New revelations breed suspicion that a campaign of CIA surveillance and attempted assassination of Malcolm during his travels in Africa was orchestrated by a member of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) named Leo Milas. [On the 58th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, Herb Boyd and Don Rojas provide CAM readers a peak …
Fight Back (2023-02-20). How an unelected review board enables the NYPD's abuse. fightbacknews.org New York, NY – Nearly three years after the George Floyd uprising of 2020, New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) has released the findings of its investigations into the New York Police Department's misconduct during the protests. But rather than addressing the increasing brutality of the cops, the results of the investigations show how an unelected, ineffective review board becomes a tool of the state that harms communities and activists while empowering the police. | From the very beginning, the CCRB's ability to investigate complaints of police misconduct during the 2020 protests was severely…
Kyle K. Moore, Economic Policy Institute. (2023-02-20). Five Principles For Making State And Local Reparations Plans Reparative. popularresistance.org We are still living in the aftermath of 2020's overlapping crises of racial injustice, our nation's polycrisis. Between the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ensuing economic recession, and the public police murder of George Floyd, we saw a harsh truth about the structure of American political economy: White supremacy has shaped our institutions such that their outcome is consistent Black precarity and premature death. | This confluence of tragedies brought awareness of the Black American condition to a new generation. It also reinvigorated interest among academics and policymakers to finally do something a…
Rachel Evans (2023-02-20). First Nations activists call for an end to the racist practice of stealing Black children. greenleft.org.au The practice of stealing Aboriginal children from their families has continued since Kevin Rudd's apology and it needs to stop, a Sorry Day protest was told. Rachel Evans reports.
Herb Boyd, Don Rojas (2023-02-21). Was Malcolm X Betrayed By an African American CIA Agent Posing as a Mozambican Freedom Fighter? covertactionmagazine.com New revelations breed suspicion that a campaign of CIA surveillance and attempted assassination of Malcolm during his travels in Africa was orchestrated by a member of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) named Leo Milas. [On the 58th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, Herb Boyd and Don Rojas provide CAM readers a peak …
Abayomi Azikiwe (2023-02-20). African American Resistance in the Rural South from the Great Depression to World War II. globalresearch.ca
Anonymous Contributor (2023-02-21). Georgia Tech Students Rally and March Against Cop City in Atlanta, GA. itsgoingdown.org Report back from recent march against Cop City organized on the Georgia Tech campus in so-called Atlanta, GA. For more info about the ongoing week of action, go here. photo: @atldemsoc On February 10th 2023, a demonstration was held at Georgia Tech against Cop City and in remembrance of Tyre Nichols, Manuel "Tortuguita" Paez-Teran, and…
Labor Video Project (2023-02-21). ILWU Local 10 Stops Work & Rallies For Mumia With Tyre Nichols Family In San Francisco. indybay.org ILWU Local 10 held a stop work action and held a march and rally to demand the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal. The family of Tyre Nichols also attended and spoke out.
March on Police Station in Menlo Park (2023-02-20). San Mateo County as Vulnerable to Police Violence as Memphis. indybay.org February 11 near downtown Menlo Park, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. Protesters rallied for justice for Tyre Nichols and said the same police tactics are used here.
A Black man is suing Workday Inc., claiming their AI disqualifies applicants who are Black, disabled, or over the age of 40.
Virginia's newest member of Congress is Jennifer McClellan, the first Black woman elected in Virginia to the U.S. House of Representatives. The timing of the win couldn't be more significant.
Source: Twitter / Twitter | UPDATED: 8 a.m. ET, Feb. 22, 2023 | A fourth Memphis Fire Department employee is under investigation for their role in the brutal arrest of Tyre Nichols which ended in his death. | Memphis Chief Legal Officer Jennifer Sink confirmed the investigation to reporters on Tuesday but says her staff hasn't decided on the consequences the employee may face. |