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The average age of those killed in Buffalo was 62. This wasn’t just an attack on the Black community. It was an attack on our Black elders. #BuffaloMassacre
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It has been written, That life is but a cycle, From ashes to ashes, From dust to dust, What is broken, Can be repaired, Not only can we do this, We must, We must. It is much easier to love, It is much easier to love.
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@bronze_bombSHEL15 Jan 2024
“ A Texas woman?” That’s THEE Opal Lee — She walked 1,400 miles, at 89 yrs old, from Fort Worth to DC to campaign for Juneteenth to be recognized as a federal holiday
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A Texas woman was driven off her land by a racist mob in 1939. More than eight decades later, she owns it again. cbsn.ws/48xZa4v
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Marc Lamont Hill
@marclamonthill15 Jan 2024
Today, let us remember Martin Luther King as he TRULY was: A Black radical anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary Christian internationalist who was deemed an enemy of the State and assassinated for his radical work. Just about everything else is a lie.
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“There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
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No way we let people die on the street, and we have the nerve to call ourselves the best country on earth. kuow.org/stories/a-record-nu…
A record number of unhoused people have died in King County in 2022

A record number of unhoused people have died in King County in 2022

At least 253 unhoused people in King County have died, so far, in 2022. That's a record for the county. A vigil will be held for them this month in Seattle.

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Asheville Reparations commission calls for extension; awaits final decision in 'limbo' citizen-times.com/story/news…
Asheville Reparations commission calls for extension; awaits final decision in 'limbo'

Asheville Reparations commission calls for extension; awaits final decision in 'limbo'

Reparations commission members are requesting an eight month extension to their two-year timeline, what would prolong the process until December 2024.

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Nonprofit Quarterly@npquarterly10 Nov 2023
Repairing the Whole: How #Reparations Can Address Physical and Mental Health bit.ly/40wtnOe @racialrepair @ReparationsIsh #mentalhealth
Repairing the Whole: How Reparations Can Address Physical and Mental Health | Nonprofit Quarterly |...

Repairing the Whole: How Reparations Can Address Physical and Mental Health | Nonprofit Quarterly |...

For reparations to repair, they must address economic inequality and heal the intergenerational effects of the trauma that racism has wrought.

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What will it take to decolonize and liberate the world?
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Big business benefited from slavery – let it pay reparations theguardian.com/world/2023/n…
Big business benefited from slavery – let it pay reparations | Letters

Big business benefited from slavery – let it pay reparations | Letters

Letters: Readers reflect on the business of slavery and who should refund the unpaid wages from which enslavers profited so handsomely

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Monique Clesca@moniclesca24 Sep 2023
Hearing survivors of the 1937 genocide of 30,000 Haitians by Dominican Republic brings tears. @NPR thanks for this excellent 2017 piece. A must-read 80 Years On, Dominicans And Haitians Revisit Painful Memories Of Parsley Massacre : Parallels : NPR npr.org/sections/parallels/2…

80 Years On, Dominicans And Haitians Revisit Painful Memories Of Parsley Massacre

This week marks the anniversary of the 1937 massacre, in which Dominican soldiers targeted Haitians living near the Dominican-Haitian border. A team from NPR's Latino USA gathered survivors' memories.

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We push on no matter what the polls say. latimes.com/politics/story/2…
New poll finds California voters resoundingly oppose cash reparations for slavery

New poll finds California voters resoundingly oppose cash reparations for slavery

California voters oppose the idea of the state offering cash payments to the descendants of enslaved African Americans by a 2-to-1 margin, according to the results of a new poll.

latimes.com
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Middle Church@middlechurch31 Aug 2023
This country can't have repentance without reparations.
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Hammer & Hope@HammerandHope30 Aug 2023
We're HIRING! Hammer & Hope is hiring a MANAGING EDITOR. If you or someone you know seems like a good fit, click the link below to apply asap! @mvmtjournalism @WritersofColor publishersmarketplace.com/jo…
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Hammer & Hope@HammerandHope30 Aug 2023
"How do we build solidarity within a culture of individualism, punishment, and accumulation? Drawing connections and showing up is where we should start and return to again and again." Hammer and Hope Issue No. 2 out now at hammerandhope.org.
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If you can inherit the wealth, you can inherit the accountability sweetie – at Atlanta, GA
Don’t Boo…Revolt! (@BreeNewsome) profile pictureDon’t Boo…Revolt!
@BreeNewsome29 Aug 2023
“I’m not guilty for the sins of my ancestors or people who were here before me.” If you keep their ill-gotten wealth & uphold their racists systems… …yes, you definitely are lol
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@Phil_Lewis_30 Aug 2023
The front page of @dailytarheel, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill via @elmunc
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The color of your skin should not be a death sentence. #ReparationsNow nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna102…
Jacksonville shooting is the latest incident of fatal violence driven by white supremacy

Jacksonville shooting is the latest incident of fatal violence driven by white supremacy

A national security review by the Biden administration found that white supremacists represented one of the most “persistent and lethal threats” facing the homeland.

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@Phil_Lewis_24 Aug 2023
Four months after he was shot in the head after ringing the doorbell at the wrong house to pick up his brothers, Ralph Yarl has begun his senior year in high school news.yahoo.com/ralph-yarl-be…
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