Countries can acknowledge their histories without being captive to them, says Hawk Newsome, who is visiting Sydney.
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‘Rest in Power’ Tells The Story Trayvon Martin Couldn’t | Colorlines
The docuseries examines the Black teenager’s life before vigilante George Zimmerman killed him, and the impact he had on the nation.
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Read James Blake’s Response to Punishment of NYPD Cop Who Assaulted Him | Colorlines
“It is this continued failure of the NYPD’s disciplinary system that perpetuates police abuses, brutality and misconduct, and leads to the unjust killings of civilians.”
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Black activist jailed for his Facebook posts speaks out about secret FBI surveillance | The Guardian
Exclusive: Rakem Balogun spoke out against police brutality. Now he is believed to be the first prosecuted under a secretive US effort to track so-called ‘black identity extremists’
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Donald Glover Is Watching You Watch Him | The Atlantic
Childish Gambino’s sensational “This Is America” video implicates the viewer in the misuse of black art.
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Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It | The New York Times
“Ours is a neighborhood designed to be transient, not a place where roots are meant to take hold.”
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Facebook Removes Popular Black Lives Matter Page for Being a Fake | The New York Times
A Facebook page that claimed a connection to the Black Lives Matter movement and had more than twice as many followers as the movement’s official page has been removed for being inauthentic, the company said.
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Michigan to Stop Distributing Free Bottled Water in Flint | Colorlines
Many of the city’s residents do not trust—or use—what comes out of their tap.
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FBI Tracked an Activist Involved With Black Lives Matter as They Travelled Across the U.S., Documents Show | The Intercept
AT THE HEIGHT of 2014’s Black Lives Matter protests in Ferguson, Missouri, FBI agents tracked the movements of an activist flying in from New York, and appear to have surveilled the homes and cars of individuals somehow tied to the protests, according to recently released documents provided to The Intercept.
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Q&A: Patrisse Khan-Cullors: ‘My favourite word? Freedom’ | The Guardian
The activist on police violence, human cruelty and the Black Panther party.
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