Via Harvard Business Review. U.S. Businesses Must Take Meaningful Action Against Racism by Laura Morgan Roberts and Ella F. Washington The United States is in crisis. As we write this article, videos of racial violence and racist threats toward Black people in America flood social and news media channels. Public demonstrations against injustice are happening in … Read More
Via Business Insider. Companies like Netflix, McDonald’s, and Target are speaking out amid the George Floyd protests — and some are actually taking action Protests erupted across the US after the death of George Floyd, the 46-year-old Black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and now … Read More
Via The New Modality. The Nitty-Gritty: Sexual Violence and Transformative Justice in Alternative Communities How The Radical Justice Systems of BIPOC and Activist Communities Are Influencing the Counterculture Written by Mischa Byruck Illustration by Amandine DeLauney Posted June 4, 2020 “Finally, we became tired of the slaughter, tired of the taste of each other’s shame.” … Read More
Via Medium. An Open Letter to Arts Organizations Rampant with White Supremacy By Nana Chinara CC: Gina Gibney, Gibney Dance When a Black femme confronts you for actively promoting and wielding white supremacy culture, you listen and course correct. Instead, I was met with a stay-in-your-place defensive response. White violence always begins with lack of … Read More
Via Black Women Radicals. BLACK AND ASIAN-AMERICAN FEMINIST SOLIDARITIES: A READING LIST By Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective Check out this reading list from Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective’s Instagram Live event, “Sisters and Siblings in the Struggle: COVID-19 + Black and Asian-American Feminist Solidarities.” On Thursday, … Read More
Via The Conversation. The Racist Roots of American Policing: From Slave Patrols to Traffic Stops Outrage over racial profiling and the killing of African Americans by police officers and vigilantes in recent years helped give rise to the Black Lives Matter movement. But tensions between the police and black communities are nothing new. There are many precedents to the Ferguson, Missouri protests that … Read More
