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Martin Luther King Jr. in St. Augustine, Florida
June 12, 1964
On June 11, 1964, Dr. King and several other activists were arrested for attempting to integrate the Monson Motor Lodge. When interviewed during his brief incarceration, King pledged to challenge segregation in St. Augustine “even if it takes all summer.”
Miami-Dade Junior College. February 15, 1972.
Even the dead won’t be safe… via itself.blog
Avowed socialist… via Jacobin
A story featured in Entertaining Comics‘s March-April 1953 issue of Weird Fantasy, written by Al Feldstein, drawn and inked by Joe Orlando, and colored by Marie Severin.
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear by Toni Morrison
March 23, 2015, The Nation.
Christmas, the day after, in 2004, following the presidential re-election of George W. Bush.
I am staring out of the window in an extremely dark mood, feeling helpless. Then a friend, a fellow artist, calls to wish me happy holidays. He asks, “How are you?” And instead of “Oh, fine—and you?”, I blurt out the truth: “Not well. Not only am I depressed, I can’t seem to work, to write; it’s as though I am paralyzed, unable to write anything more in the novel I’ve begun. I’ve never felt this way before, but the election….” I am about to explain with further detail when he interrupts, shouting: “No! No, no, no! This is precisely the time when artists go to work—not when everything is fine, but in times of dread. That’s our job!”
A similar sentiment. (Paris Review)
#Breaking: Trump wins Florida, with 29 electoral votes. Electoral count: Clinton 131; Trump: 197 https://t.co/qG6ism7MPk pic.twitter.com/VH64FIOnY7
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) November 9, 2016
Some Florida numbers, via npr
We need better and more open statistics, in order to improve the police. This story underlines the gap.
After Ferguson, it became apparent that the official government count of the number of people killed by police was low; it was off by about 50 percent. So journalists started counting. The Washington Post counted 990 people shot dead last year, a quarter of them black. This year is on about the same pace. But Klinger says we need more details about every instance of deadly force, even when no one dies.
The Washington Post : 2015 database – 990 people shot dead by police. 2016 database – 707, so far. Methodology. On Github.
Black Lives Matter calls to defund (which does not mean to eliminate) and to prioritize the use of police departments.
UNIA Division 156 of Los Angeles was part of a general spread of Garveyism between 1920 and 1921. According to UNIA parent body records recently uncovered in New York City, by 1926 there were sixteen divisions and chapters of the UNIA in California.
Source: Emory Tolbert, The UNIA and Black Los Angeles: Ideology and Community in the American Garvey Movement (Los Angeles, 1980), pp. 57-58, 53.
Via Dr. Taylor.
our motto is, when they go low, we go high.
I want a leader who is worthy of that truth, a leader who is worthy of my girls’ promise and all our kids’ promise, a leader who will be guided every day by the love and hope and impossibly big dreams that we all have for our children.
