Join us for a FREE screening of THE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKS Friday, Feb. 17. Director Yoruba Richen will join for Q&A. With support from & presented with Black History Month Kingston. RSVP for FREE tickets: bit.ly/3Wg8uD9
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Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College, Author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and A More Beautiful and Terrible History
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Before the Inclusion & Leadership Mentors' free showing of _The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks_ tonight at 5pm in SDRP2025A, stop by our Library2Go of civil rights-themed books & DVDs. Bring your I-card to check them out on the spot! #RHL #Libraries #MoreThanBooks
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In partnership with housing, C.O.R.E will be celebrating MLK day with a viewing of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Please join us on tomorrow, Jan 18th from 5-7pm at SDRP!
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The #OHIOLancaster Diversity Committee will be hosting a special showing of the new documentary, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.
Date: Wednesday, February 22
Reservations: bit.ly/3XIHP2W
Open to all students, staff, and faculty. Pizza will be provided.
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I just finished watching “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” on . Great Documentary!!!!!!! 🙌🏿🤌🏿
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Amazing, as is the fact that there are three *four-year-olds* and twenty five hundred-year-old people on the “can’t fly under any circumstances, no matter how much we search you” list
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On this No-Fly list leak: as with most leaked law enforcement docs, main takeaway is it confirms what impacted folks & advocates have been saying & seeing all along. E.g: "More than 10% of the entries on the No-Fly list ... contain “MUHAMMAD." papersplease.org/wp/2023/01/20/
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Gore says it is important to recognize that these women wore multiple hats in the Black Freedom Movement — they were doing daily organizing, but were also theoreticians. They were looking for places & spaces where they could do both forms of struggle.
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It's always a good time to learn about the Red Scare & Black radicals — but some days it feels more urgent than others. Tomorrow! Sign up
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Tonight! Don't miss it!
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I’m currently reading this book and I’m so hype about this class tomorrow! Register because you don’t want to miss this Want to Start a Revolution? Black Women Radicals Confront the Red Scare - Zinn Education Project zinnedproject.org/news/dayo-gore
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If you too are enraged by this cruel and heartless statement by saying that he "stopped thinking" about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have died from #COVID19, please contact him and let him and his administration know.
whitehouse.gov/contact/
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BIDEN: “And I think we — I sometimes underestimate it because I stopped thinking about it, but I’m sure you don’t: We lost 1 — over 1 million people in several years to COVID.”
We lost almost 700,000 people to covid since Biden took office two years ago.
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Whatever we learn next, please be clear you can’t understand places like Monterey Park without Asian American Studies research the mainstream generally ignored for years. Tim Fong wrote this book 29 years ago. tupress.temple.edu/books/the-firs
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Here’s a BBC report of the mass shooting in Monterey Park near Lunar New Year festival site because over 3 hours after the incident, I could not find any national news reports from major U.S. print or broadcast media. (LA Times has headline coverage.)
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We started an online series Teach the Black Freedom Studies with at the beginning of the pandemic. Dayo Gore is in conversation with
tomorrow night at 7:00 EST. Please come and spread the word. For more and to register, see:zinnedproject.org/news/teach-bla
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I've had an idea for an online Black Studies series for a while. This Florida nonsense seems like it might be time to explore it for real. Anybody got ideas for how to make it actually happen?
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"Martin Luther King was a Lawbreaker"
Last April, and shared a pamphlet of a 1970 essay by anarchist political prisoner Martin Sostre on distortions of MLK's legacy. Check it out—wise words from an important ancestor.
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Julian Bond was eventually seated after winning his seat again, denied again, and going to SCOTUS.
After two decades in office, he taught popular courses on CRM history.
Read his lectures in collection ⬇️, co-edited by .
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Construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway required the forcible displacement of tens of thousands of people across the two boroughs. Designed by Robert Moses, the highway cut a nearly 15-mile gash through some of the most densely populated neighborhoods on the planet.
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I recommend people go watch the 2022 documentary 'The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks'
executive produced by: the incomparable
directed by: Yoruba Richen () & Johanna Hamilton ()
based on the book written by:
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The whitewashing of the history MLK and other civil rights leaders and activists is atrocious. I won't even say how old I was before I learned that Rosa Parks didnt just spontaneously decide to not give up her seat on that bus.....
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Your annual #MLKDay reminder to use color photos! The Civil Rights Era wasn't long ago. King was the same age as Barbara Walters. He was younger than Maya Angelou, Betty White & Queen Elizabeth. Color photos were around when he was alive — and he very well could be alive today
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Great thread.
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Lots of people constantly call on young activists, particularly BLM, to be like Martin Luther King. They have no idea what they're really calling for. Five ways to actually BE like Martin Luther King on what would have been his 94th birthday.
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This is the thread you need today
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Lots of people constantly call on young activists, particularly BLM, to be like Martin Luther King. They have no idea what they're really calling for. Five ways to actually BE like Martin Luther King on what would have been his 94th birthday.
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This invaluable🧵also offers five ways to teach about Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on this anniversary. #TeachTruth
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Today's thread worth reading is about a local man 5 years younger than Jimmy Carter
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Taking MLK’s legacy of social justice & watering it down to community service is a deliberate effort to de-radicalize MLK’s message
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I remember my daughter (a Black activist) once saying, “They tell us to be more like MLK; what they don’t realize is we are exactly like MLK.”
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5. Make clear racism is not just a Southern sickness but a national cancer: “As the nation, Negro and white, trembled with outrage at police brutality in the South," King highlighted, "police misconduct in the North was rationalized, tolerated, and usually denied.”
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4. Be angry at injustice and not apologize for it: “It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged" King stressed, "when they should be,”
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3.Reframe the issue from Black behavior to white illegality: "When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also demand that the white man abide by law in the ghettos. Day-in and day-out…he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law."
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2. Insist allies walk the walk. “We do not need allies who are more devoted to order than to justice" King made clear the need for disruptive protest. "If our direct action programs alienate so-called friends … they never were really our friends.”
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1. Make clear that there "can be no compromise" around police brutality. King understood that the problem of policing in the US was not simply some bad apples. Rather the police and the courts act "as enforcers" in Northern ghettos in a system of "internal colonialism."
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“You don’t really celebrate prophets,” says . “You re-engage their legacy. And remember, Dr. King was not killed because of what he had accomplished – he was killed because he wasn’t satisfied.” #velshi
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Y’all still out here letting the elected officials tell y’all how to “celebrate” #MLK Day? How about we listen to our ancestor!
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I dug into the tax returns and financial statements of Mount Sinai and Montefiore. Montefiore's giving their executives chauffeurs and first class airfare, Mount Sinai gave their CEO 12.5 percent annualized raises over the last decade.
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Hidden in Hochul's State of the State briefing book:
A 3% tuition *HIKE* for CUNY & SUNY students
Wonder why this didn't make it into her speech....
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Check out Julian Bond's lectures from a popular class he taught for decades on Civil Rights Movement. Edited by and Pam Horowitz via .
Full of Bond's knowledge, analysis, storytelling, firsthand experience, and wit.
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#tdih 1967, Julian Bond was finally sworn in as a member of Georgia House of Reps -- after 2 yr battle to claim his elected seat.
In 1965, House had refused to seat Bond because of his statements (on behalf of SNCC) in opposition to Vietnam War. ⬇️ 🧵
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Woke up still thinking about CDC Director’s tweet from yesterday. Actually, we *do* know how to slow COVID spread by implementing a multi-layered mitigation strategy. No, singling out only China for testing is *not* part of that strategy and will only breed xenophobia & racism.
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In 2022, we distributed 13,000 copies of "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" to schools. Red pins indicate states where teaching honestly about content (racism & resistance) of the book is banned. Also, we posted teaching guide for book & new film ⬇️
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No wonder the right-wing is upset.
More than 11,000 teachers signed up to access people’s history lessons in 2022, bringing our full registration at ZEP to more than 151,000 teachers from every state in the U.S.
Read 2022 highlights 🧵. Donate for 2023.
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