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June 20, 2020

A Politics of Our Time: Reworking Afro-Asian Solidarity

Yuichiro Onishi UnMargin

Asian Americans’ relationship to state violence that disproportionately affects Black men and women is entangled within existing relations of hierarchy and exploitation in complex ways. Given this, we would do well, to hone a politics of our time.

June 20, 2020

Arundhati Roy: Indian Muslims Facing ‘Genocidal Climate’ Amid Pandemic

Daniela Bezzi OpenDemocracy

Noted Indian Author and Activist Arundhati Roy speaks.

Acclaimed Indian writer Arundhati Roy has demanded human rights courts examine the Modi government’s “disastrous” response to the coronavirus pandemic and its blatant Islamophobia, designed to paint the entire Muslim community as “corona jihadis.”

June 20, 2020

Black Women and Girls Killed by Police: The Incomplete Stories of #SayHerName

African American Policy Forum African American Policy Forum

The #SayHerName vigil in memory of Black women and girls killed by the police.

Launched in 2014 by the African American Policy Forum and Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies, the #SayHerName campaign brings awareness to often untold stories of Black women and girls victimized by racist police violence.

June 19, 2020

Friday Nite Videos | June 19, 2020

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Amber Ruffin Shares a Lifetime of Traumatic Run-Ins With Police. Carnegie Hall Live: Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi. Fox News’s Law & Order Experts. Lynchings and Racial Violence During Reconstruction. The Tulsa Race Massacre: Then and Now.

Amber Ruffin Shares a Lifetime of Traumatic Run-Ins With Police

June 19, 2020

For a week, Seth Meyers turned the start of his show over to Amber Ruffin, who shares some of her encounters with the police.

Live With Carnegie Hall: Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi

June 19, 2020

Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi restore minstrelsy to its global context through the journeys of the banjo and the tambourine, and in tracing those journeys show what there is to reproach versus celebrate in the birth of American music

Fox News’s Law & Order Experts

June 19, 2020

Nobody understands law & order better than these Fox News crime experts. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #FoxNews

Lynchings and Racial Violence During Reconstruction

June 19, 2020

EJI's Reconstruction in America report (http://eji.org/reconstruction) documents nearly 2,000 more confirmed racial terror lynchings of Black people in America than previously detailed during 1865-1877. The legacy of lynching is evident in racially motivated violence that continues today. Read more.

The Tulsa Race Massacre: Then and Now.

June 19, 2020

While much has changed, it’s not enough. Be a part of a better tomorrow. WATCH, LEARN, & SHARE

June 19, 2020

Racial Terror: 2,000 Black Americans Were Lynched in Reconstruction Era, Report Says

Ed Pilkington The Guardian

The killings during the 12-year period adds to the 4,400 victims from the post-Reconstruction era of 1877 to 1950, bringing the total number of people lynched to 6,500