May 2013
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These 31 charts will destroy your faith in... →
WE ARE MONSTERS!!!!
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Tim Dog all day
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“A little over a week ago, I was shot along with 19 other people at the Mother’s...”
– Letter read by Deb Cotton at New Orleans City Council meeting yesterday
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Clarification for L.A. Times on My Mother's Day... →
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I’d like to address the L.A. Times’s story, “Organizers ‘Embarrassed’ by New Orleans Parade Shooting.” The reporter quotes my BLKVS blog, “What Kind of Animal Shoots Up a Mother’s Day Parade?” particularly the part where I wrote:
What kind of monster opens fire on a Mother’s Day parade…
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“The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 should apply to all defendants, including those...”
– ACLU
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Why Are Non-Profits Banned From Politicking to...
Looking at LBJ’s maneuvers, one could argue that the installment of political prohibitions on non-profits was itself a political move, since Johnson used it to quell a rising tide of wealthy conservatives looking to take him out of office. Without that political maneuver, though, Johnson perhaps doesn’t get re-elected to the Senate, and then maybe doesn’t later get elected President of the U.S....
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Maybe Some of These Tea Party Groups Deserved...
True the Vote, which Colorlines reported extensively on last year, was engaged in plenty of work around elections and campaigns, and virtually all of the groups included in their network happen to be “tea party,” “patriot” and “9/12” groups — all conservative organizations that work both within the Republican Party and in support of its causes. And probably because those groups compose the bulk —...
Black Versus: What Kind of Animal Shoots Up a... →
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I looked at “Big Red” Deb laid out in the hospital, tubes running out of her, blood running out of her, but saw a strong soul running within her. She was sedate, resting, not in peace, but in the unsettled and medicated calm that comes after violence. Her close friends gathered around her bed,…
— Brentin Mock
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How Environmentalists Stopped Worrying About...
Sierra Club founder John Muir, a nature conservationist, wrote about Native Americans in the late 19th century in ways that many people of color consider offensive, if not racist. Even worse were the people he befriended, like the naturalist Henry Fairfield Osborne, a leader of the racial “eugenics” movement, and Madison Grant, another eugenist whose early 20th century writings were literally...
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In the Gulf, a long history of oil spills and...
My first post at Grist — the plot thickens, the list expands:
When BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in 2010, it hemorrhaged roughly 210 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. We know now, thanks to recent court hearings and settlements, that all this happened because oil company managers were cutting corners on safety, and the federal government’s monitoring system for...
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27 Things You Had To Deal With As The Only Black... →
“You know, I don’t even see you as black.”
#14 Was ME
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Hip Hop is getting better
April 2013
27 posts
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'...climate-change coverage cries out for the most... →
Word
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Black Versus: No Thin Love: Celebrating 2-years of... →
blackversus:
I was 2 years-old when my parents divorced. For those first few years after the divorce, I did not talk. I became incredibly withdrawn and painfully shy. My mother, a mental health professional and therapist, explains that my silence was an internalization of the trauma and pain of our…
Beautifully written blog from my wife
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‘Environmental Justice’ Soldiers On Without a...
Historically speaking, environmental successes—achieved by either EJ or mainstream organizations—haven’t been the result of a single great leader. There is no Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or Cesar Chavez of the green world, and those who have attempted to be The One have failed.
The big event that netted the environmental movement’s biggest victories—the Clean Air and Clean Water acts and the...
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“One of the problems with the idea that America needs a ‘Conversation On Race’ is...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates (via theatlantic)
We have condescension on race
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