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40 years ago, punk rock spread around the world with bands like The Clash and The Ramones gathering a cult following and creating a scene in which kids who didn’t fit in found a community.

Source: 10 Black Punk Bands You Need To Listen To – OkayAfrica

The most effective change-makers in our society aren’t waiting around for a new president to make their lives better, they’re planting seeds, quite literally, and through the revolutionary act of gardening, they’re rebuilding their communities while growing their own independence.

Every four years when the big election comes around, millions of people put their passion for creating a better world into an increasingly corrupt and absurd political contest. What if that energy was instead invested in something worthwhile, something that directly and immediately improved life, community, and the world at large?

The simple act of growing our own food directly challenges the control matrix in many authentic ways, which is why some of the most forward-thinking and strongest-willed people are picking up shovels and defiantly starting gardens. It has become much more of a meaningful political statement than supporting political parties and candidates.

Source: Why Growing Food is The Single Most Impactful Thing You Can Do in a Corrupt Political System

Chantel Grant and Andrea Stoudemire were killed Friday on a block where moms gather to help curb gun violence

Source: Chantel Grant and Andrea Stoudemire, Chicago mothers working to stop gun violence, shot dead – CBS News

A Bridgeport, CT teen was shot and allegedly lay dying on the street without any medical attention given to him as he bled to death.

Source: Cops Shoot, Handcuff 15yo Boy, Left Him in the Street for Hours as He Bled to Death

Source: ‘You’ve got bad blood’: The horror of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment – The Washington Post

Today, thanks to some cultural smudging, “techno” has become synonymous with a multi-billion-dollar electronic music industry — a far cry from its inner-city origins.

Source: Before techno was white and hedonistic, it was black and political | City Slang

Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common.

Source: John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music | Open Culture

From 2001 to 2015, the suicide risk for Black boys between the ages of 5 and 11 was two to three times higher than that of White boys, according to a new research letter in JAMA Pediatrics (Bridge,…

Source: Depression in Black Boys Begins Earlier Than You Think – Psychology Benefits Society