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In Sean Bell Killing, 4 Officers to Be Forced Out

In Sean Bell Killing, 4 Officers to Be Forced Out | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it
A ruling to fire a detective for his role in the killing of Sean Bell in Queens is upheld, and three other officers will be forced to resign.
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Migration is Beautiful

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Migration is Beautiful symbolizes a commitment from the creative community to see, show, and celebrate the humanity of the migrant story.
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In Slight Defense Of Miss Utah USA, A Little Bit, With Reservations : NPR

In Slight Defense Of Miss Utah USA, A Little Bit, With Reservations : NPR | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it
What do you expect when you ask a terrible question in a ridiculous setting?
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Seriously though, what is the best answer to that question!?

 

Would she win if she said: "The problem is men. Men have been oppressing women since day one and it needs to stop right now!"

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Medgar Evers

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Medgar Evers (1925-1963), a martyr of the American civil rights movement, died 50 years ago today on June 12th 1963. He was the head of the NAACP in Mississippi, the most racist state in the nation...
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Smiley & West - Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law Professor; Farah J. Griffin, Columbia University

Smiley & West - Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law Professor; Farah J. Griffin, Columbia University | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it

Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig reflects on the NSA controversy and lays out his plan for comprehensive campaign finance reform. 

Plus, Columbia professor Farah Jasmine Griffin talks about the history of surveillance in the civil rights movement, and her new text, Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II.

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U.S. Medical Apartheid: Harriet A. Washington

Journalist Sheryl McCarthy talks with newsmakers about their sources of inspiration. She has private conversations about public affairs issues with the peopl...
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Part of Mixed American Life is living with the mental bagage of a history of oppression and oppressors - and living with ongoing oppression and oppressors. 

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Jeb Bush, arguing for immigration reform, says immigrants 'more fertile'

Jeb Bush, arguing for immigration reform, says immigrants 'more fertile' | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it
Washington (CNN) - Making an argument for overhauling the nation's immigration system Friday to a crowd of conservative activists, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush claimed immigrants were "more fertile" and thus a great benefit to American society.
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lol :D

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Know Anyone Who Thinks Racial Profiling Is Exaggerated? Watch This, And Tell Me When Your Jaw Drops.

Know Anyone Who Thinks Racial Profiling Is Exaggerated? Watch This, And Tell Me When Your Jaw Drops. | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it
This is one massive reality check, folks.
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Are White Americans the good guys of history? | Abagond

Are White Americans the good guys of history? | Abagond | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it
Are White Americans the good guys of history? There are two main answers to this: No, of course not: Genocide, slavery, Jim Crow, wars of empire in Mexico, the Caribbean, Philippines, Vietnam, Iraq...
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White Privilege Wedding: Justin Timberlake + Jessica Biel

White Privilege Wedding: Justin Timberlake + Jessica Biel | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it
"You may have seen this story making the gossip rounds: at Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel’s wedding, Timberlake’s longtime real estate agent made a congratulatory gag video, featuring footage of homeless people from L.A. giving the couple their congratulations.  Gawker went public with it yesterday, and their write-up covers its “greatest hits,” as it were:"
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the wealthy having fun with the homeless - ahh - what a riot

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Police Brutality Compilation Of The Week (May 1 to May 31 2013)

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Dream Big

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made entirely from Rubik's Cubes. 

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How to tell if a character is a stereotype | Abagond

How to tell if a character is a stereotype | Abagond | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it
Here are the common signs in American film and television that a character is an ethnic or racial stereotype. Any one of these might be innocent, but each is a red flag. In this post I use "ethnic"...
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I know this article is not only about Speedy Gonzales, but at least Speedy Gonzales was not a negative stereotype 'cause he always out smarts Sylvester! Maybe Jason Richwine never watched Speedy Gonzales.

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Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act, INS, Act of 1965, Pub.L. 89–236)[1] abolished the National Origins Formula that had been in place in the United States since the Emergency Quota Act. It was proposed by United States Representative Emanuel Celler of New York, co-sponsored by United States Senator Philip Hart of Michigan, and heavily supported by United States Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.

The Hart-Celler Act abolished the national origins quota system that was American immigration policy since the 1920s, replacing it with a preference system that focused on immigrants' skills and family relationships with citizens or U.S. residents. Numerical restrictions on visas were set at 170,000 per year, with a per-country-of-origin quota, not including immediate relatives of U.S. citizens, nor "special immigrants" (including those born in "independent" nations in the Western Hemisphere, former citizens, ministers, and employees of the U.S. government abroad).[1]

The 1965 act marked a radical break from the immigration policies of the past. The law as it stood then excluded Latin America, Asians and Africans and preferred northern and western Europeans over southern and eastern ones.[2] At the height of the civil rights movement of the 1960s the law was seen as an embarrassment by, among others, President John F. Kennedy, who called the then-quota-system "nearly intolerable".[3] After Kennedy's assassination, President Lyndon Johnson signed the bill at the foot of the Statue of Liberty as a symbolic gesture.

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You cannot "prove" racism to most White Americans | Abagond

You cannot "prove" racism to most White Americans | Abagond | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it

"6. Prejudice is not logical. That makes [racism] hard to disprove, logically. It can be confirmed by facts (one loud-mouthed black woman) but never disproved (a hundred quiet black women). It works in a part of the brain that deals with feeling, not thought."

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Stastics of stop-n-frisk and the Prison Industrial Complex prove racism to me. 

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Lyrics that give me Goose Bumps: part 1

Lyrics that give me Goose Bumps: part 1 | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it

This is the first song I've heard that is clearly pro gay-rights. 
It currently has over 47 million views and almost half a million likes. 

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Part of Mixed American Life is living with different people - without oppressing them. 

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1968 Olympics and the Black Power Movement

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The Human Rights Salute, popularly known as the  Black Power Salute was made famous to the world at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. 

The movement that lead to the preparation of this iconic photo was called the Olympic Project for Human Rights or OPHR, which was established by Harry Edwards, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, UC Berkeley.  

The 1968 Olympics took place the same year that Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated. It took an enormous amount of courage to make these public displays of solidarity.

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Is social media creating forces to end racism?

Is social media creating forces to end racism? | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it
Of course, such a question is a bit more hopeful than I usually am and is slightly dangerous per se. But is there something to it? This week Sebastien De La Cruz has been a focus across the media, ...
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...and then

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It happens to be Loving Day which is what prompted me to finally get around to posting about the Cheerios.  Happy Loving Day! Interracial Marriage (black/white) has been legal for a grand total of....
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what Loving and loving are all about

what Loving and loving are all about | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it

Making Love Legal

The Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, Ph.D.

Senior Minister, Middle Collegiate Church

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via Mullato Diaries, Tiffany Jones

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Watch This And See If You Still Doubt Racial Profiling Exists

Watch This And See If You Still Doubt Racial Profiling Exists | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it
I saw this video when it ABC TV did this experiment on "What Would You Do?" on racial profiling and discrimination, and the site Upworthy just posted the video again. It is a must watch if you have...
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'Sesame Street' now has a show for kids with parents in prison

'Sesame Street' now has a show for kids with parents in prison | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it
Sesame Street has produced a 30-minute program for kids dealing with parents in jail, not for regular broadcast but to be sent to schools and therapists.
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Miami-Dade Police Choke A Teenager Because He Was Staring At Them

Fourteen-year-old Tremaine McMillian didn't threaten police. He didn't attack them. He wasn't armed. All the black teenager did was appear threatening by sho...
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Philip Emeagwali | IQ 190

Interview with Philip Emeagwali @ IOD London
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Philip Emeqgwali is a pioneering researcher in computer technology with an IQ of 190, higher than Einstein. 

 

His U.S. degrees are from George Washington University and the University of Maryland, as well as a doctoral fellowship from the University of Michigan."

 

As he explains the history of African science, the thought came to me that Africans created all people. Respecting our forefathers includes respecting Africans. 

 

""The Internet as we know it today did not cross my mind," Emeagwali told TIME. "I was hypothesizing a planetary-sized supercomputer and, broadly speaking, my focus was on how the present creates the future and how our image of the future inspires the present."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1963424_1963480_1963457,00.html #ixzz2Vsv74MnW

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Smiley & West - George Benson; Tribute to Nat King Cole; Bradley Manning trial

Smiley & West - George Benson; Tribute to Nat King Cole; Bradley Manning trial | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it
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The Anything But Racism argument | Abagond

The Anything But Racism argument | Abagond | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it
The Anything But Racism argument, common among White Americans, says that racism is so dead that it is the least likely cause of the races being unequal, like in housing, education, unemployment, p...
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Dramatic Reading of Racist YouTube Comments Left on ‘What Kind of Asian Are You?’ Video - COLORLINES

Dramatic Reading of Racist YouTube Comments Left on ‘What Kind of Asian Are You?’ Video  - COLORLINES | Community Village Daily | Scoop.it
Actors read real comments from “What Kind of Asian Are You?”
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click through to watch the other video by David Neptune and Ken Tanaka

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