We are back with more news this week: our thoughts about police brutality in Minnesota, we also talk about Christian Cooper’s work in lgbtq+ advocacy in comic books, and finally we discuss a transgender inmate who is pushing to be allowed to transition in prison.
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A 21-year-old Black man was killed by police in Indianapolis on Wednesday. The victim‘s family and friends identified the man as Dreasjon Reed, who was commonly known as Sean. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department faces growing questions after killing 3 people in the matter of 8 hours. The deaths included two shootings and an officer who struck and killed a pregnant …
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1976, the Bicentennial year of The United States of America. What else? Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak; NASA Unviels first space shuttle, the Enterprise; It’s reported that CFCs, or Chlorofluorocarbons, used in aerosol cans damage the ozone layer; The Olympics, broadcast from Montreal, Canada, draw an estimated one billion viewers worldwide. Nadia Comaneci, a 14 year-old Romanian, is …
Read More »Drawing on his research into the 1970s Stop Killer Cop Campaigns and the 1980s National Black United Front, Komozi Woodard will connect the dots of resistance to violent whiteness yesterday, today and tomorrow. Komozi Woodard is the author of A Nation Within a Nation and editor of the The Black Power Movement, Part I as well as other things. Woodard …
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