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Boston mayor unveils reparations task force members – including TWO 11th graders and college student | Daily Mail Online

by News Headlines | Feb 8, 2023 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines

Among the 10 people who will decide whether to pay members of Boston’s black community are two high schoolers and one college student.High school juniors Damani Williams and Denilson Fanfan, as well as 22-year-old University of Massachusetts student and...

Stanford Medicine finds racial disparities in child abuse reporting | News | Almanac Online |

by News Headlines | Feb 8, 2023 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines

The outcomes for children of abuse are grim. Compared to the general population of children with traumatic injuries, suspected child abuse victims were younger (a median age of 2 years old versus 10 years), more likely to have public insurance (77% versus 43%) and...

COINTELPRO 2.0: How the FBI Infiltrated BLM Protests After Police Murder of George Floyd | Democracy Now!

by News Headlines | Feb 8, 2023 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines

A new podcast out today called “Alphabet Boys” documents how the FBI disrupted racial justice organizing after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, including paying an informant at least $20,000 to infiltrate and spy on activist groups in Denver, Colorado. The...

Frontiers | Race-based trauma and post-traumatic growth through identity transformation

by News Headlines | Feb 8, 2023 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines

Race-based trauma is increasingly recognized within psychology as a distinct type of trauma, resulting in post-traumatic stress symptoms (Chin et al., 2020, p. 9), including hyper-vigilance (Carter et al., 2005; Carter and Forsyth, 2010) and dissociation...

Will They Finally Haul the Slaver Statues Out of the Capitol?

by News Headlines | Feb 8, 2023 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines

Portraiture celebrating men who owned people has gazed down upon visitors to the U.S. Capitol for generations. But interestingly and tellingly, the slaver portraits had never been cataloged until December, when Washington Post history reporter Gillian Brockell found...

Biden on police killings: ‘We can’t turn away’

by News Headlines | Feb 8, 2023 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines

President Joe Biden called for law enforcement to be held to higher standards in his State of the Union address Tuesday — exactly a month after Memphis police fatally beat Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man.“All of us in this chamber, we need to rise to this...

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85+ People at Washington State Migrant Prison Go on Hunger Strike | Democracy Now! February 7, 2023
In Washington state, more than 85 people locked up at the Northwest Detention Center immigration prison have launched a hunger strike to protest mistreatment and inhumane conditions. Their demands include nutritious meals, clean facilities and proper medical care. The prisoners say they are forgoing food despite harsh retaliation from ICE and GEO Group, which runs […]
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The Police Murder of Tyre Nichols and the Attack on Black History | Democracy Now! February 7, 2023
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan February 1st marked a beginning and an end. It’s the first day of Black History Month, the national celebration honoring the hard-won achievements of African Americans over the painful arc of the more than 400 years since the first ship of enslaved Africans arrived in 1619. February 1st was […]
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