This is why there is is a push to support black-owned businesses
Reading Time: < 1 minute If you desire to ally, this is one of the ways that you can effectively combat systemic racism
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Vox: Rudy Guiliani: Black Lives Matter Wants to Take Your Beautiful Caucasian Homes
Reading Time: 2 minutes How this shit is even allowed to be on the air without disclaimers is beyond me but this feels like the equivalent of calling WWE interviewers journalists and the muscular gymnastics guys they interview wrestlers.
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Vox: Juneteenth, explained
Reading Time: 9 minutes This year, Juneteenth will be commemorated with protests, marches, a general workers strike, and opportunities for healing and joy across the country. It will also be celebrated as it has been for decades, with cookouts and parades, as well as church gatherings and spirituals, keeping in touch with the original tradition.
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Trump’s big Saturday super spreader ego feeder narcissism event
Reading Time: 7 minutes One of the reasons that we got here to this moment is because of a lack of empathy. It’s also obviously because of selfishness and greed and racism and fear and a whole long list of other stuff. But empathy plays a part.
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CNN: I covered the Rodney King and Freddie Gray riots. This moment feels different. That’s why I’m afraid.
Reading Time: 9 minutes What if I keep seeing a succession of unarmed black and brown people struck down on videos? What if one day it’s someone I know — or me?
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Vox: How to talk to kids about racism, explained by a psychologist
Reading Time: 10 minutes America’s kids are watching.
They’ve seen the killing of George Floyd and other scenes of police violence against black people play across their TV screens again and again, as Kelly Glass reports at Vox. They see the thousands of people in the streets every day protesting that violence — sometimes, the kids are part of the protests.
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For White People Only
Reading Time: 6 minutes Stop that individualized bullshit of “not me.” Do not step away from your collective. You are at the center of all of this. You as an individual and you as a collective. Do not exempt yourself from the hard feelings because you cannot imagine your knee in that man’s neck.
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Vox: Twitter has finally started fact-checking Trump
Reading Time: 3 minutes While Twitter’s move Tuesday is incremental, it signals the company is willing to take more of a stand on misleading content on its platform — even if the person tweeting that misleading information is the president of the United States. The challenge will be when it decides to weigh in on the endless bucket of half-truths, conspiracy theories, and outright lies politicians post every day, and which are likely to increase in cadence as we get closer to the 2020 presidential election.
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Vox: Is this the end of productivity?
Reading Time: 6 minutes The question of how to implement a humane form of economics that requires less productivity of individual workers is the more onerous task. But perhaps, with the majority of Americans forced to reckon with an unprecedented state of inactivity, we’ll be more inclined to put down our phones and separate accomplishment from self-worth. Writers like Smart have long argued that this is beneficial and, ironically, can make us more productive in the long run.
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Essence: COVID-19 Highlights The Harsh Reality Facing Black Girls, Girls Of Color
Reading Time: 4 minutes Youth of color and their families face significantly higher health risks associated with the coronavirus than their peers. According to the CDC, African-Americans accounted for one third (33 percent) of patients admitted to U.S. hospitals and a similar percentage of COVID-19 deaths (34 percent). Yet, African-Americans are just 13 percent of the U.S. population.
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