https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDgIN_JVTM8 The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 “For three decades, the film canisters sat undisturbed in a cellar beneath the Swedish National Broadcasting Company. Inside was roll after roll of startlingly fresh and candid 16mm footage shot in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, all of it focused on…
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† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at…
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“Once upon a time, wasn’t singing a part of everyday life as much as talking, physical exercise, and religion? Our distant ancestors, wherever they were in this world, sang while pounding grain, paddling canoes, or walking long journeys. Can we begin to make our lives once more all of a…
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“Which Story, What Story, and Whose Story Is Being Told?” Massa’s Gaze: Screenings & Discussions of the Depictions of Slavery in Film & Television (NYC) “12 Years a Slave Fails to Show Resistance”, Guardian “The Horrors 12 Years a Slave Couldn’t Tell”, Aljazeera America “Why I Wouldn’t See 12…
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Def Poetry – Amiri Baraka – “Why is We Americans” Remembering Activist Poet Amiri Baraka, NPR (36)
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† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at…
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“won’t you celebrate with me” by Lucille Clifton Rachel Jeantel’s Short Blue Dream by Kiese Laymon (34)
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Harry Belafonte – The Gifts They Gave (11)
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