From ThinkProgress: Will Weatherford, the Republican speaker of Florida’s House of Representatives, revealed on Friday that the state’s legislature will hold hearings on its infamous “Stand Your Ground” laws sometime this fall. While the announcement came buried in one sentence of a defensive opinion piece published this past Thursday in…
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If he just pulled up his sagging pants, he might get a job. pic.twitter.com/6d5LTmAW1O — Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) July 28, 2013 Excellent piece from Black Skeptics/Frederick Sparks: It’s all well and good to say “finish school” but how about examining the factors that attribute to high dropout rates, including punitive…
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Marisa Alexander, the thirty year-old mother of three sentenced to twenty years in prison for firing a warning shot to fend off an attack form her husband. From The Grio/Joy-Ann Reid: Marissa Alexander’s daughter turns three today but there is not plan for a birthday party. Instead, the 31-year-old remains…
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From Time/Michelle Alexander: One of the reasons that Trayvon Martin’s tragic death resonated so powerfully with millions of people of color, black and brown men in particular, is that it was one of those rare situations in this so-called era of colorblindness when suddenly the curtain was pulled back. All…
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From Democracy Now: According to a recent study, the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of his killer is not unique. In “Operation Ghetto Storm,” the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) found at least 136 unarmed African Americans were killed by police, security guards and self-appointed vigilantes in…
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