Congrats to her!ProfX wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 6:51 pm [from twitter]
Rep. Terri A. Sewell@RepTerriSewell
Today, after months of Republican obstruction, the Senate is moving forward with the confirmation of Dr. Lisa Cook to the @FederalReserve Board. Dr. Cook is extremely qualified and would make history as the first Black women on the Fed. I urge my Senate colleagues to vote YES!
The Leadership Conference@civilrightsorg
BREAKING: The Senate just moved forward on the nomination of Dr. Lisa Cook to serve on the @FederalReserve Board.
If confirmed, Dr. Cook will be the first Black woman to ever serve on the board in its 108-year history. She is highly qualified and deserves swift confirmation.
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She was confirmed, Senate vote was 50-50, I believe VP Harris as pro tem had to cast the deciding vote.
...conservatives are such desperate people...The history of the Blackwell School in Marfa, where a mock funeral was held for Spanish words, could be part of the National Park System under a Senate-passed bill.
At a time when conservatives ...
... are waging campaigns against teaching about systemic racism in the U.S., the Senate has moved to preserve evidence of it in Texas.
The Blackwell School in Marfa, where Mexican American children were educated separately from white children, would become a national historic site and part of the National Park System of the National Park Service under a bill the Senate passed on a voice vote last week.
The school was built in 1909 to teach Hispanic children. Mexican American and Mexican children were educated there through the ninth grade.
In a news release after the vote, Cornyn said: “Texas has a rich and diverse history and it’s time for this piece of our story to receive proper recognition.
“We must ensure that this building will stand for generations, and educate Americans of all backgrounds on the progress we’ve made as a nation,” he stated.
Padilla said in a statement to NBC News: "Our national park system has a long way to go when it comes to adequately preserving Latino history. ... Understanding our nation's history of segregation and discrimination toward Latinos in places like the Blackwell School is integral to building a more just future in America."
The Senate bill corrects a map of the site in the House version, so the House would have to vote on a corrected version and make no changes for the legislation to be sent for President Joe Biden’s signature.
This could also easily go in the Bye thread.Anyone who wants to foster the tandem promotion of racism and sedition will have to do it somewhere other than the CMA Festival. The annual gathering has declared that Confederate flag imagery will be banned at the biggest country music festival in the world, which will take place in Nashville June 9-14.
The CMA Festival becomes the second large country music festival to institute such a ban, following the Stagecoach Festival April 29-May 1, which also made headlines for putting the flag and associated racially charged imagery on the nixed list.
A Donald Trump-endorsed conservative token like Herschel Walker is 180 degrees opposite of civil rights progress.
Let's also get crystal clear on why an undereducated white con in 2022 would think "two African Americans opposing each other for US Senate in Georgia" is civil rights progress.
June 08, 1958David Isom, 19, broke the color line in one of this city's segregated public pools this afternoon which resulted in officials closing the facility. This is the second such incident within the past 72 hours. Two white swimming areas now have been closed due to attempts of blacks to use them.
Vivian Juanita Malone was one of the first two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama and was the first black graduate of the institution. Malone was born on July 15, 1942, in Monroe County, Alabama. Both of her parents worked at Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile and were involved in the civil rights movement. Malone was also involved in community activities in her youth, focusing on ending racial discrimination and working towards desegregation. She attended Central High School in Mobile where she was a member of the National Honor Society and graduated in 1960.
Malone attended Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (Alabama A&M) and received a two-year degree in business education in 1962. In order to further her education, Malone would have to transfer to another university that offered more advanced classes. By 1962 at least two hundred black students had applied to the University of Alabama’s branch school in Mobile, but they were all denied admission based on over enrollment or closed enrollment. The actual reason, however, lay with the Alabama’s school segregation laws. After over a year of legal deliberations, Malone and fellow student James Hood were chosen to be the first two black students to desegregate the University.
When U.S. District Court Judge Harlan Grooms ordered Malone and Hood admitted, the two arrived on campus on June 11, 1963, in a three-car motorcade accompanied by the U.S. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and federal marshals. They were dispatched by the Kennedy Administration to avoid the rioting that accompanied the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi the year before. Alabama governor George Wallace, however stood in the doorway, physically blocking the entrance of Hood and Malone.
Deputy Attorney General Katzenbach called President Kennedy to force Governor Wallace to back down. The president federalized the Alabama National Guard, placing it under his command, rather than the governor’s. One hundred guardsmen escorted Malone and Hood through another door to complete their registration. As she and Hood entered the building, they were met with surprising applause from white students who supported integration. Malone was accepted as a junior and was the first black student to graduate in 1965 with a bachelor’s degree in business management.
Most people assume that the South is a monolith of conservatism and tradition, a place where not only is queerness unable to thrive, it ceases to exist. But while the Northeast holds 19% of the LGBTQ+ population, the South holds 35%, the largest of anywhere in the United States. It is here, back in the places that raised me, that I have found community and hope — in the students I teach, in the friends I have made, in the voices of those speaking up for change. It is not that we don’t exist, but that our stories have not historically been given the representation they deserve. We have long been telling them; it is the world that has not always listened. It is time now to listen. We are not going anywhere.
‘We Are Everywhere’: How Rural Queer Communities Connect Through Storytelling (Nicole Blackwood, National Geographic, September 2020)
The Rib Joint (Julia Koets, Creative Nonfiction, Summer 2019)
Jericho (Silas House, Ecotone, Issue 28)
What I Learned on My Road Trip to Meet American Homophobia (Morgan Thomas, Vice, January 2018)
The Queer South: Where the Past is Not Past, and the Future is Now (Minnie Bruce Pratt, Scalawag, January 2020)
Fat Tuesday at Dixie’s (Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman, Southern Cultures, Spring 2006)
A Queer and In-Color Geography: From Mumbai to West Virginia (Anjali Enjeti, Scalawag, March 2022)
The unserved warrant from 1955 charges a white woman who accused the 14-year-old Till of making improper advances.
A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later.
A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham — identified as “Mrs. Roy Bryant” on the document — was discovered last week by searchers inside a file folder that had been placed in a box, Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill said Wednesday.
Documents are kept inside boxes by decade, he said, but there was nothing else to indicate where the warrant, dated Aug. 29, 1955, might have been.
Lock.Arrest warrants can “go stale” because of the passage of time and changing circumstances, and one from 1955 almost certainly wouldn’t pass muster before a court, even if a sheriff agreed to serve it, said Ronald J. Rychlak, a law professor at the University of Mississippi.
But combined with any new evidence, the original arrest warrant “absolutely” could be an important step toward establishing probable cause for a new prosecution, he said.
acarmenjonze wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 7:05 am Emmett Till's family wants woman arrested after warrant unearthed 67 years later - NBC News
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In February of 1839, Portuguese slave hunters abducted a large group of Africans from Sierra Leone and shipped them to Havana, Cuba, a center for the slave trade. This abduction violated all of the treaties then in existence. Two Spanish plantation owners, Pedro Montes and Jose Ruiz, purchased 53 Africans and put them aboard the Cuban schooner Amistad to ship them to a Caribbean plantation. On July 1, 1839, the Africans seized the ship, killed the captain and the cook, and ordered Montes and Ruiz to sail to Africa.
Montes and Ruiz actually steered the ship north; and on August 24, 1839, the Amistad was seized off Long Island, NY, by the U.S. brig Washington. The schooner, its cargo, and all on board were taken to New London, CT. The plantation owners were freed and the Africans were imprisoned on charges of murder.
Although the murder charges were dismissed, the Africans continued to be held in confinement and the case went to trial in the Federal District Court in Connecticut. The plantation owners, government of Spain, and captain of the Washington each claimed rights to the Africans or compensation.
President Van Buren was in favor of extraditing the Africans to Cuba. However, abolitionists in the North opposed extradition and raised money to defend the Africans. Had it not been for the actions of abolitionists in the United States, the issues related to the Amistad might have ended quietly in an admiralty court. But they used the incident as a way to expose the evils of slavery and generate significant opposition to the practice.
Today, in an unprecedented move, leaders of eight legacy civil rights organizations have joined together with leaders of national reproductive rights, health, and justice organizations to request a meeting with President Biden, following his Executive Order, to discuss implementation, and the overwhelming impact of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the need to mitigate harm in the fallout.
This letter explicitly highlights the disproportionate impact this decision will have on Black women, other women of color, and vulnerable women, and the undeniable connection between abortion access and other social justice issues, including voter disenfranchisement, policing abuse, criminal injustice, poverty, economic inequity, housing inequity, LGBTQ+ rights, the immigration crisis, food insecurity, medical bias, and environmental injustice.
Hate crime targeting Asian Americans is on the rise, and many are recalling the gruesome murder of Vincent Chin in 1980s Detroit. Helen Zia was on the front lines as an activist then and still leads the fight today. She speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about Chin’s story and the current danger to her community. This interview is part of Exploring Hate, our ongoing series on antisemitism, racism and extremism.
It was never secure to begin with.Motor City wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:33 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxoyh1gZ2lg
40 Years Since Vincent Chin’s Murder: Is Asian-American Safety Backsliding?
This is not civil rights progress. WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today announced $9.7 million in grants to assist 21 preservation projects in 9 states for historic structures on campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
“For more than 180 years, Historically Black Colleges and Universities have provided high-level academics, opportunities, and community for generations of students. These grants enable HBCUs to preserve the noteworthy structures that honor the past and tell the ongoing story of these historic institutions,” said NPS Director Chuck Sams.
Retweetcarmenjonze wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 4:07 pm Derrick Johnson
@DerrickNAACP
Welcome to the 113th NAACP National Convention!
[VIDEO]
https://twitter.com/DerrickNAACP/status ... 7921380356
Crouching for up to 10 hours between the furrows of a Nebraska field, Fausto Ríos, 17, could trim and separate 70 beets in a single minute with a small hoe. But he paid a steep price.
Under the scorching heat, sweat would bathe his entire body and blind him within minutes. When his legs began to weaken and the pain in his lower back felt as if he were being continuously stabbed, the Mexican immigrant had two tricks to motivate himself and avoid a scolding from his bosses: He had to stay upright as he “walked” on his knees, all the while thinking about getting paid at the end of the month.
Despite the extreme hardships, the job was a godsend for him and millions of other young Mexican men, Ríos says. For immigrant laborers with little or no formal education and a lack of employment opportunities in their native land, laboring in the fields of el norte offered a way out of utter deprivation.
Now a widower, with a damaged back, arthritic knees and a treadmill as his constant companion, he wants to play whatever role he can in exposing, and ending, the long history of racism, wage theft and mistreatment that many farmworkers experienced between the early 1940s and the mid-'60s.
He believes that sharing his story will give voice to all those immigrants who still are tethered to a system that, he says, exploits them and repays their sufferings with indifference.
The director of the podcast noticed strong parallels between educators from the Civil Rights era in comparison to those today and feels as though a lot can be learned from what happened during that time..
Some of nearly 300 Civil Rights-era educators — mainly from South Carolina — are featured prominently in a new podcast, which highlights the life lessons they taught and received.
The podcast, “Teachers in the Movement,” is spearheaded by Derrick Alridge, who oversaw the 2014 research project of the same name at the University of Virginia, the Charleston Post & Courier reports. It is a collection of oral histories of educators who worked in South Carolina and four other states between 1950 and 1980.
“Teachers played very important roles in the movement,” Alridge says on the Teachers in the Movement page on the University of Virginia website. “What drives our research team is our desire to bring their stories to light.”
