OCG Info & News Board •● ☥●• The Third Eye Parenthesis

"All of these events happened in a suite shared by a total of eight occupants. Sadly, this young man had to endure the treatment from August 20th to October 13th of this school year.

What is interesting about this issue is that it took place on-campus in one of the most liberal states in the country. California residents often pride themselves (ourselves) on being particularly progressive. Each of these students is from central and northern California. But, this story sounds more like something one would hear about in the Civil Rights Era in the South."

My dear friend and OUR COMMON GROUND Voice Dr. Julia Hare has been living with Alzheimer’s for several years and was diagnosed with the End Stage of the condition during the Christmas/Kwanzaa holidays. However, she subsequently served notice that rumors of her demise are just a bit premature. 

Her first appearance on OUR COMMON GROUND was in 1985.

 Drs. Julia and Nathan Hare need our help.  They have been on the frontline for us.  We must now have their back.

Please make donations to help preserve the freedom and dignity of the proud and inimitable lady, Dr. Julia Hare, that her husband, Dr. Nathan Hare promised, fifty-seven years ago, to protect and “To Love and to Cherish” (Essence magazine).

Give generously because they have without questioned earned the right to receive our help.  http://www.gofundme.com/bl1sig

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African American women continue to have higher rates of unemployment than white women and continue to have lower amounts of weekly usual earnings and median wealth compared to their male counterparts and white women. These disparities leave a growing portion of our population more vulnerable to poverty and its implications.

The race problem in the United States …has been a visible or invisible factor in almost every important question of domestic policy since the foundation of the Government.”

A five-justice majority on the Roberts Court is not expected to look as kindly on “disparate impact,” given its eagerness to review an issue on which all lower courts have agreed, and its hostility to the Voting Rights Act, affirmative action, and other means for rooting out racial discrimination.

#BlackLIVESMATTER

The world of 'dreamthinkers' mourn the loss of prolific author, J. California Cooper. One of my favorite authors and from book to book, my BFF.

This report documents how people of African descent remain “without sanctuary” throughout the United States. Nowhere is a Black woman or man safe from racial profiling, invasive policing, constant surveillance, and overriding suspicion. All Black people – regardless of education, class, occupation, behavior or dress – are subject to the whims of the police whose institutionalized racist policies and procedures require them to arbitrarily stop, frisk, arrest, brutalize and even execute Black people.

"Post-racialists often confirm their perspective by pointing to black and minority appointments to the nation’s elite positions, including the election of Barack Obama to the highest office in the land. Indeed, the president himself often perpetuates this “post-racial” trope. In his speech marking the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Obama described how “legitimate grievances” had “tipped into excuse-making” and “the transformative message of unity and brotherhood was drowned out by the language of recrimination.” “And what had once been a call for equality of opportunity,” he continued, “the chance for all Americans to work hard and get ahead, was too often framed as a mere desire for government support, as if we had no agency in our own liberation, as if poverty was an excuse for not raising your child and the bigotry of others was reason to give up on yourself.”

Non-Profit & Activism Event ·  More event details ...

Wed Jun, 25 2014 12:00 PM EDT — Wed Jun, 25 2014 3:00 PM EDT

“FIFTY YEARS DISTILLED” 

Fifty years ago, there came from many quarters of our nation a youthful diversity of ethnicities, opinions, lifestyles, and persuasions, a cadre of risk-takers committed to lifting the last burden from the shoulders of the world’s last oppressed woman and man.  Our coming together was more than idealism that has since been celebrated as the Mississippi Summer of 1964.

While countless pundits and chroniclers from without have vertically described, discussed and even extolled the seasonal events of that year, this is the rare occasion, some fifty years later, for a horizontal view of those who survived to tell the story — its origins, frustrations, triumphs and its aspirations as well as hope.

With the doves outnumbering the ravens in the parliament of our hair, this is our unbent and unbowed voice calling to those who must succeed us as radical agents of change.  We want them to know that ours was more than theory and faith.  It was more than uplifting rhetoric and freedom songs — It was pragmatic and tedious, dangerous and deadly, not only for us but more importantly for the locals who believed in us with their lives.  May this passage of time reveal what the present once obscured.  It comes as a special comfort to know that we were far better then than we could have ever known then.