Racism

Inside The Protest That Stopped The Trump Rally

March 13, 2016 Keith O'Brien, www.politico.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Racism, Student Activism, Trump

By Keith O'Brien for Politico. Just 50 feet in front of the podium where Trump was scheduled to appear at any moment, Nathaniel Lewis, a 25-year-old African-American graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, had established a beachhead of sorts: a pocket of about three dozen college students and activists. What Lewis and dozens of his UIC classmates had planned was perhaps bigger—and better organized—than any protest Trump had faced to date. “I don’t want to get punched in the face,” one woman, an undergrad, told Lewis over the din inside the UIC Pavilion. Lewis nodded. “I’m not going to let that happen to you,” he assured her. They had begun four days earlier with nothing. They had hoped that morning just to get inside the arena, maybe just a few of them, and maybe make a dent in the side of Trump’s candidacy.

Mass Protest Shuts Down Trump Rally

March 12, 2016 Kim Bellware, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Racism, Trump

By Kim Bellware for Huffington Post. A Donald Trump rally that attracted thousands to the University of Illinois at Chicago was abruptly canceled Friday night amid his campaign's security fears, sparking shouting and scuffling between the candidate's fans and anti-Trump protesters. The rally was called off about a half-hour after the scheduled 6 p.m. start time, after thousands of Trump fans and anti-Trump protesters packed into the free event, which required online registration. Thousands more gathered outside, surrounded by a police perimeter, and people became more vocal as the starting time approached. “I have never seen anything like it. It’s amazing,” CNN’s Jim Acosta said. The network said approximately 8,500 people were at the rally.

What I Know About America After Getting Thrown Out Of A Trump Rally

March 12, 2016 Ronnie C. Rouse, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! 2016 Elections, Donald Trump, Racism, Republican Party

By Ronnie C. Rouse for The Huffington Post - As I woke up this morning, the reality and depth of the situation started to finally set in. Seventy-plus interviews later, my childhood friend and I are on national news because we decided to attend a presidential campaign event. My childhood friend and I are on national news because we were exercising our civic rights as Americans. At a Donald J. Trump campaign event March 9, 2016, my friend Rakeem and I sawwhat being American is all about.

Three Stabbed During Ku Klux Klan Rally

February 28, 2016 Sebastian Murdock and Peter Andrew Hart, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Ku Klux Klan, Racism, Violenc

By Sebastian Murdock and Peter Andrew Hart for Huffington Post. Anaheim, CA - Three people were stabbed Saturday during a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim, California, including one person who was in critical condition after apparently being stabbed with a flagpole, police said. Thirteen people were arrested after counterprotesters clashed with participants in a planned KKK rally. The violence erupted at about noon, an hour and a half before the KKK rally was scheduled to begin at Pearson Park, the Los Angeles Times reported. Several dozen counterprotesters had gathered at the scene that morning to face off against the Klan.

Remembering Trayvon Martin: His Death Built A Movement

February 28, 2016 Aprill O. Turner, www.campaignforyouthjustice.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Racism, Trayvon Martin

By Aprill O. Turner for the Campaign for Youth Justice. The tragic death of Trayvon has set off a national conversation about racial profiling and the role race played in the death of this young man. Trayvon’s death, and those of other young black men, has served as a catalyst for a new generation of activists that seek to dismantle the structures that target and criminalize black youth. New organizations have been formed, new leaders have emerged, the spirit of resistance has been given a reboot, and a new modern day civil rights movement has emerged. The question at the center of this movement is, “What does the world look like when Black Lives Matter?” What does education look like when Black lives matter? What does economic opportunity look like when Black lives matter? What does the criminal justice look like when Black lives really matter?

Newsletter – Celebrate Black Power

February 13, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Activism, Black History, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Climate Justice, Environmental racism, Flint, Poverty, Racism, TPP, Water, Wealth Ineqaulity

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. This month is Black History Month, first celebrated as Black History Week in 1926 as a result of the efforts of African-American historian, Carter Godwin Woodson. Goodwin picked a week in February because both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas were born on February 12 and 14, even though he believed that people needed to be educated about the multitude of African Americans who have contributed to history, as change comes from the bottom up. In recent years black history is being made by multitudes of people. Under the umbrella of Black Lives Matter multiple organizations have been created across the country and tens of thousands of people have taken action. Black history is alive as history is being created in our times. Let's celebrate it together.

How The US Came To Recognize Black History Month

February 13, 2016 Daryl Michael Scott, zinnedproject.org Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black History, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Racism

By Daryl Michael Scott for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. More importantly, Woodson believed that history was made by the people, not simply or primarily by great men.He envisioned the study and celebration of the Negro as a race, not simply as the producers of a great man. And Lincoln, however great, had not freed the slaves—the Union Army, including hundreds of thousands of Black soldiers and sailors, had done that. Rather than focusing on two men, the Black community, he believed, should focus on the countless Black men and women who had contributed to the advance of human civilization. Woodson never viewed Black history as a one-week affair. He pressed for schools to use Negro History Week to demonstrate what students learned all year. In the same vein, he established a Black studies extension program to reach adults throughout the year. It was in this sense that Blacks would learn of their past on a daily basis that he looked forward to the time when an annual celebration would no longer be necessary.

Residents Of South Baltimore To Sue Over Incinerator

February 11, 2016 United Workers, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Environment, Environmental Justice, Environmental racism, Incinerators, Racism

By United Workers. Residents of South Baltimore filed a notice of intent to sue a New York-based developer over plans to build what would be the largest trash-burning incinerator in the U.S. Many residents of the Curtis Bay, Brooklyn, and Brooklyn Park neighborhoods closest to the incinerator site – including a student-led organization called Free Your Voice – are fighting the proposed 4,000-ton-per-day trash burning incinerator because of the air pollution that it would add to a neighborhood already suffering from toxic air emissions. "The incinerator would add more brain damaging lead and mercury to my community which is already the most polluted in the state,” said Destiny Watford, Curtis Bay resident and leader with Free Your Voice. “This would violate our basic human right to live in a healthy community.”

UN Panel Recommends Changes To U.S. School Discipline

February 3, 2016 Evie Blad, www.blogs.edweek.org Create! Education, Race, Racism, United States

By Evie Blad for Education Week - A panel of experts convened by the United Nations has recommended changes to U.S. school discipline, including the removal of police from schools, to equitable treatment of black youths. The U.N. working group of experts on people of African descent visited various cities around the United States in January, hearing testimony from experts and advocacy groups about equity concerns in areas like criminal justice, housing, and education. Those included student groups who've pushed for a reduction in zero-tolerance discipline policies in schools and a South Carolina student who was arrested for protesting her classmate's violent arrest...

Earliest Memoir By Black Inmate Reveals Legacy Of Mass Incarceration

February 3, 2016 Matthew Shaer, www.smithsonianmag.com Educate! Black History, Mass Incarceration, Racism, US history

By Matthew Shaer for Smithsonian - In the fall of 2009, an unusual package arrived at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, at Yale University. Inside was a leather-bound journal and two packets of loose-leaf paper, some bearing the stamp of the same Berkshire mill that once produced Herman Melville’s favorite writing stock. Joined together under the title The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict, the documents told the story of an African-American boy named “Rob Reed,” who grew up in Rochester, New York, and had been convicted, in 1833, while still a child, of arson.

Schools, Black Children, And Corporal Punishment

February 2, 2016 Dick Startz, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Black Youth, Corporal Punishment, Racism, Schools

By Dick Startz for The Huffington Post - As we recently celebrated Dr. King’s life, it is worth examining the difference in how our schools discipline black and white children. In public schools in the United States, black children are twice as likely as white children to be subject to corporal punishment. Figure 1 shows the comparison, derived from nationwide data reported by schools to the Office of Civil Rights, Department of Education. (All data is for the 2011-2012 school year, the latest year available.) The continuing disproportionate corporal punishment of black children is a reminder that some aspects of the “bad old days” are not fully behind us.

Blueprint For Reconstructing Racist America

January 25, 2016 Reverend Dr. William J. Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, www.alternet.org Strategize! Racism, United States

By Reverend Dr. William J. Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove for Alternet - America's Third Reconstruction depends on a moral movement, deeply rooted in the South, emerging state by state throughout the nation. No single leader or organization can orchestrate such a movement, but we who have seen the power of fusion organizing in North Carolina in 2014 established an education center, Repairers of the Breach, to share the lessons of Moral Mondays and invest in equipping leaders for other state-based coalitions. In order to move forward together, we’ve outlined fourteen steps to mobilize in the streets, at the polls, and in the courtroom.

Moroccan Muslim Immigrant Beaten In Philly For Speaking Arabic

January 25, 2016 Sam Newhouse, www.metro.us Educate! Hate Crime, Racism, Violence

By Sam Newhouse for Metro - A Moroccan immigrant to Philadelphia was brutally attacked over the weekend in Center City just for speaking his native tongue, he claims. Amine Aouam, 34, who is Muslim, said Tuesday while still shaky from the attack that he believes he was the victim of an anti-Arab or anti-Mulism hate crime. "You think that would happen if I was speaking French or German? I don't," he said. "It was obviously a hate crime."

Settlement Reached In Barneys ‘Shop-And-Frisk’ Case

January 25, 2016 Staff, www.amsterdamnews.com Resist! Lawsuit, New York (NY), Protests, Racial Profiling, Racism

By Staff of Amsterdam News. New York City, NY - Reports indicate that Barneys has agreed to pay a settlement to a Black man who accused the luxury retailer of racially profiling him. In 2013, then-19-year-old Trayon Christian was stopped and questioned by NYPD officers outside of Barneys after he bought at $350 belt. Christian alleged that he bought a designer belt before he was stopped by undercover officers. He claimed officers said they were tipped off by a Barneys sales clerk, who accused Christian of using a debit card that did not belong to him.

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