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“If your voice held no power, they wouldn’t try to silence you.” - unknown. Use your VOICE. Use your VOTE. By The Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks).

This 1985 Sundance-Award winning film speaks deeply to the present moment, exploring a true story of the struggle of black and white workers, over a hundred years ago, to build a strong interracial union in the giant Chicago slaughterhouses in the face of the mounting racism that erupted in violence in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. It has been beautifully digitally restored and re-released by Film Movement, and is now rentable for streaming here.

Written by John McLaughlin with Cindy Santana Blackman and Narada Michael Walden. A collaboration to raise money for Musicares Coronavirus Relief Fund to help musicians who have been hit hard by the shutdown of live music. 

‘Poverty is by political design.’ — Meet Jamaal Bowman, the middle school principle and progressive who won a shocking upset against a 30-year incumbent Democrat

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

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

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

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.

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

As nationwide protests over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are met with police brutality, John Oliver discusses how the histories of policing and white supremacy are intertwined, the roadblocks to fixing things, and some potential paths forward.