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A part of the trick is to devilishly get you to debate things that shouldn’t be debatable.
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“A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it
creates is a decadent civilization.
A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial
problems is a stricken civilization.
A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a
dying civilization.”–Aimé Césaire
Who produces the suffering we’re all witnessing, who benefits from it, and what structures must be transformed and or destroyed to bring it to an end?
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The only Black-owned bookstore in Kansas is fundraising to stay open ksn.com/news/wichita-black-o…
Acts of Anti-Black Police Terrorism doesn’t care if you are 1 or 100 years old.
A 19 month old Black child, sitting in the lap of his mother, was shot dead by the police over allegations of shoplifting things like diapers and baby food. The mother said that she showed the police her child, and the officer fired anyway.
A 19 month old child’s life was taken by an agent of the state, only for that same state to determine that no crime was committed in firing bullets into the body of a baby.
That is a true act of legally legitimized terror. When an officer knows that laws are set up to protect him, even in the face of killing a baby…that is some sick ass shit.
The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi attorney general’s office announced mississippifreepress.org/pol…
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NFL star Azeez Al-Shaair honored another Palestinian girl today, wearing the name ‘Maryam Ghanem’ on his eye black during the Houston Texans’ game.
Maryam was saved from her burning home a couple days ago after watching both her parents burn to death after an Israeli airstrike.
This marks five consecutive weeks of Al-Shaair using his platform to honor Palestinian children.
There often times is a noticeable difference between what someone believes about themselves, and what their behavior reveals.
“I’m not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American—and got sense enough to know it.
I’m one of the 22 million Black victims of the Democrats. One of the 22 million Black victims of the Republicans and one of the 22 million Black victims of Americanism. And when I speak, I don’t speak as a Democrat or a Republican, nor an American. I speak as a victim of America’s so-called democracy.”–Malcolm X
We, The Black Delegation, feel the need to remind all parties involve and observing, Stephen A. Smith does not represent the Black Community, and if we’re being honest, many in The Black Delegation have been trying to trade him to the White Delegation, but they keep rejecting the trade.
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North Carolina university students walked out of classes Thursday, demanding justice for Nolan Wells.
Calls for an independent federal investigation into the 18-year-old Black college student’s death in July have spread from Mississippi to Atlanta, New York, and now HBCUs and other schools across the South, after a Jackson County grand jury declared that it found "no evidence" of a crime and declined to bring charges in September.
Wells’s body was found near Horn Island after a holiday boat trip with white friends. His family says they have received too few answers regarding the circumstances of his death.
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The Ghetto Informant Program:
The Ghetto Informant Program (GIP), *was* a vast surveillance initiative designed to penetrate Black communities during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Church Committee Staff Report noted, “Perhaps one of the largest programs was the so-called ghetto informant program.” The numbers alone underscore the scale of state intrusion: “In August 1968, we had 3,248 racial ghetto-type informants… By October we were at 6,000. It reached its peak in 1972 with 7,500 ghetto informants.”
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The median net worth of Black American households declined by 25 percent from 2022 to 2025, according to newly released Federal Reserve data cepr.net/publications/black-…
On this day in 1966, Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.
More than sixty years later, the continued relevance of those demands laid out in the BPP’s 10 Point Program is a damning indictment of how little the material conditions of oppressed people in the United States have fundamentally changed.
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Hundreds marched in the streets near New York City’s Union Square on Wednesday night to demand a federal investigation into the death of Nolan Wells, the 18-year-old Black teen from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, whose body was found off Horn Island after a Fourth of July boat trip with a group of mostly white friends who returned without him.
Wells’s family and allies are pushing for answers after a Jackson County grand jury declined to bring charges last month. This week, they released findings from a nearly 300-page forensic report that includes Nolan’s friends’ private Snapchat conversations, intensifying calls for transparency and accountability in his death.