“It’s not about, This is John, this is Rebecca,” he told me. “I want to direct the audience to understand, We are George Floyd. We are one.”

NowThis@nowthisnews·Jul 3Amidst the national uprising for racial justice, ’Hamilton’ star @DaveedDiggs and a collective of Black artists created this evocative video inspired by Frederick Douglass’ ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’

thunderbirdpdxNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -James Baldwin

“I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.” -John Coltrane John Coltrane"Alabama" (1963)On Sept. 15, 1963, four young Black girls were killed by a bomb at a Baptist church in Birmingham, Ala. Two months later, saxophonist John Coltrane recorded "Alabama," whose dirge-like cadence was inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King's oration at the girls' funeral service. The soft rumble of McCoy Tyner's piano and the ceremonial thrum of Elvin Jones' toms deepen the gravity of a song that frames protest in terms of a human toll, devastating and irretrievable.

These online spaces are where second-generation immigrants congregate to share translated educational resources, combat disinformation (sometimes published in foreign languages), and discuss ways to engage with family and community members about systemic racism, anti-blackness, and other social topics that often require a broader context of American society and history to fully comprehend. They attempt to dissect the long-held racial tensions between black and white Americans, as well as race relations between varying minority groups. With the ineluctable wave of protests over police brutality and racism continuing to dominate the national conversation, young people of color like Pham no longer see silence as an option.

The article focuses on race relations and justice administration in the U.S. in 2014. Topics include the problem of police brutality in the U.S., the need for better police training, and racism. Information is provided on the victimization of minorities by police, why police should be forced to use wearable cameras at all times, and the acquittal of police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of black teen Michael Brown.

Researchers have also looked at how racial injustice cuts across other parts of society – such as schools and workplaces – and what can be done to reduce disparities. Here is some of that research and more.

These recent acts of violence have raised a set of complex and challenging questions about inequality in our society: Why are Black Americans repeatedly targeted by the police? What can be done to stop further atrocities against minority communities from occurring? As some protests against these deaths turn violent, are political protests and demonstrations an effective way to instigate change? How can we build a more just society?

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Court house in Louisville is being boarded up right now. Multiple staffers said they were all asked to leave the building and that they were told, privately, that a decision was being announced soon on Breonna Taylor. Speculation was that no charges will be filed.

“To recap: The FBI created a new category of threat,” NPR’s Hannah Allam noted. “[A]nd two years later quietly abandoned it without explanation.”

The subcommittee noted that there was a 17 percent increase in reported hate crimes in 2017 from the previous year and a 31 percent increase since 2014. And in spite of the ADL’s report that white supremacists were responsible for 78 percent of extremist murders in 2018, the FBI still dedicates most of its time, money and manpower to investigating and stopping international terrorism.

The Greeks were the first mathematicians who are still ‘real’ to us to-day. Oriental mathematics may be an interesting curiosity, but Greek mathematics is the real thing

Is mathematics ‘unprofitable’? In some ways, plainly, it is not; for example, it gives great pleasure to quite a large number of people. I was thinking of ‘profit’, however, in a narrower sense. Is mathematics ‘useful’, directly useful, as other sciences such as chemistry and physiology are?

If a man of mature age loses interest in and abandons mathematics, the loss is not likely to be very serious either for mathematics or for himself.

Good work is no done by ‘humble’ men.

The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics

If then I find myself writing, not mathematics, but ‘about’ mathematics, it is a confession of weakness, for which I may rightly be scorned or pitied by younger and more vigorous mathematicians.

Let’s stick with the Wikipedia technique for a moment, because it’s useful for a few other questions.

“Pardon the egg salad stains, but I’m in love.”

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Check marks, asterisks, and exclamation points rain down along the sidelines.

Sometimes the notes are ferocious

To-do notes from the #blacklivesmatter protest today:1. Dialogue: talk to black neighbors, friends, co-workers. listen to their experience. Watch my own dismissiveness and/or defensiveness.2. ACA Constitutional Amendment 5research and vote for this--it repeals parts of prop209 that make it much harder for black/minority owned businesses to succeed.contact representatives tell them to support this.3. AB3121 Reparations Task Forcevote yes4. Fill out census brings money into California and Benicia to address systemic racial inequities in housing, healthcare, education, jobs, etc.5. Policing:Ban chokeholdsNo rubber bulletsNo teargasRequire all elected officials to complete a course in systemic racismCommunity Accountability Board (is this enough? examine and look at challenging laws around immunity for police if they kill someone in the line of duty.)6. attend city council meetings7. check each elected officials voting track record--local, state, and national. Require that they support measures to address systemic racism and their voting record reflects that in order to have my vote.8. buy books from black-owned bookstores (would love to see a list of local black-owned bookstores in comments)9. Read black authors, fiction, non-fiction, poetry (I added poetry:) Some books that have expanded my white mind & opened my heart: Fiction: Jesyman Ward, "Sing Unburied Sing"Toni Morrison "Beloved", Colson Whitehead "The Underground Railroad"Nonfiction: "Stamped from the Beginning" Ibram X. Kendi"Feminism is for Everybody" Bell Hooks, "The Souls of Black Folk" W.E.B. Dubois (recommend "Stamped from the Beginning" first to put limitations Dubois faced into historical context)Poetry: "Blessing the Boats" Lucille Clifton, "Wade in the Water", Tracy K. Smith (former U.S. Poet Laureate--grew up in Fairfield, CA), "The Tradition" Jericho Brown Would also love to see the books you all recommend by black authors in comments.10. Support black-owned/run businesses (would love to see a list of local businesses in the comments.) I know Lowe's has a black CEO and Home Depot supports Trump.11. Teach and practice anti-racism at home. 12. Black children are still having to deal with both blatant (being called the n-word everyday at school--NOT OKAY) and systemic racism in our community--racial profiling by police, learning white history in school. Work to make Benicia a safe place, supportive community, for ALL kids.