Month: March 2020

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As lockdowns and layoffs sweep the U.S., mutual aid groups are forming to protect and provide for the vulnerable, including the elderly, incarcerated, undocumented and unhoused. We look at the incredible community networks across the country that are coming together to protect their neighbors during the coronavirus pandemic — and how you can get involved. From Washington state to the Bay Area, Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota and New York City, thousands of mutual aid efforts are aimed at building solidarity, not charity. We speak with two longtime mutual aid organizers and activists in two hot spots of the pandemic. In New York City, Mariame Kaba is a longtime organizer, abolitionist, educator and the founder of the grassroots organization Project NIA, which works to end the incarceration of children and young adults. She has raised tens of thousands of dollars and redistributed it to groups across the country in response to the coronavirus pandemic, and she just did a public conference call with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on mutual aid. In Seattle, Washington, Dean Spade is an associate professor at Seattle University School of Law and founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Pr

Source: Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid & How to Organize in the Age of Coronavirus | Democracy Now!

White Americans opposed to paying reparations to descendants of slaves might not realize their ancestors received them after their slaves were freed. According to an op-ed by professor Tera Hunter in the New York Times, President Abraham Lincoln paid white Union loyalists up to $300 for every enslaved person freed. The reparations were made through the District of Columbia Emancipation Act.

 

Source: Slaveowners Got Reparations After Emancipation. Enslaved Got Nothing

Majority of the Igbo accepted christianity through coercion and not an immediate inspiration of the Holy spirit.

Source: Africans Became Modern Christians By Force And Not By The Holy Spirit

A black youth is killed every 23 minutes in Brazil. This reveals the depth of the problem of racism in Brazil. Being black in the country can be dangerous.

Source: A black youth killed every 23 minutes: The dangers of being black in Brazil – Face2Face Africa

Saren Idaho and Prince Latoya were sent to Sierra Leone, where they say they have no roots.

Source: Expelled from the US and now in limbo in Sierra Leone – BBC News

The company’s called Adriano Di Marti and they’ve formulated a new technique to create a fabric using cactus leaves called Desserto. Cactus, known for its rugged nature is quite hard and thick and pointy, however, when fully processed, it not only feels like actual leather, but since it is made from cactus — a plant that can grow in the desert with minimum moisture — it doesn’t consume as much water.

Source: Two Guys Create ‘Leather’ From Cactus, Will Save 1 Billion Animals Killed For Fashion

Being a good person can mean many things. Sometimes, it means protecting a complete stranger when they’re being followed by a group of men intending to do them harm. That’s exactly what one Twitter user did when a woman in need approached him, asking for his help.

Source: Woman Gets Followed Home By Three Strangers, Hugs This Black Guy And Asks Him To Help Her | Bored Panda

Have you ever seen this?

Ex-Slaves talk about slavery in America (Shocking stories).

From an ABC report back in 1999…

 

#NeverForget

Source: RARE Footage: Ex-Slaves talk about slavery in America

Source: Alpha Kappa Alpha and Delta Sigma Theta judges unite to bust up the prison pipeline – TheGrio