We always celebrate st paddy’s day late in the jack.

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Jackson Mississippi

Excited to be back in Cambridge this Friday for the Bell Collective’s 2024 Critical Race Theory Conference at Harvard Law School!

We won; Giuliani lost: the federal jury acquitted the NY8 on the RICO charge. Yes, it seems like karmic justice for Giuliani to be on the other side of a RICO indictment, but we can’t forget how he used it to imprison Black political activists & terrorize their families.

In post-Dobbs America, some girls can travel hours to get an abortion; some can't. This is the story of one of them.

She was raped. The nearest abortion was nine hours away. Now, she's a mom. Soon, she'll start seventh grade.
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“Regina hadn’t yet explained to her daughter how a baby is made, because she didn’t think Ashley was old enough to understand. ‘They need to be kids,’ Regina says. She doesn’t think Ashley even realized that what happened to her could lead to a pregnancy.”

Michael Oher, subject of 'The Blind Side,' petitioned a court with allegations that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy never adopted him, but rather tricked him into a signing a document making them his conservators and enriching themselves

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It may seem contradictory that a state known for coercively sterilizing Black women & girls (“Mississippi appendectomy”) to prevent them from giving birth would force a 13-year-old Black girl who was raped to birth the baby. Both are reproductive slavery. time.com/6303701/a-rape…

The HLS community mourns the passing of Charles Ogletree '78, a tireless advocate for civil rights, equality, human dignity and social justice, and a long-serving faculty member who made a monumental impact on Harvard Law School. We send our condolences to his family and friends.

this is what we mean when we say crime is a social and racialized construct AND that media drives mass criminalization.

white kids hop a pool fence: it's a fun summer montage scene on Laguna Beach or Sweet Valley High. Black kids do it: filmed by helicopters for the 6:00 news.

JT launches “No Bars Reform,” a new mission to help formerly incarcerated women navigate life after prison.

The website offers resources for employment, housing, therapy, substance abuse, and mental health issues. JT ☆

'But this critical nuance does not seem to matter to Gunna’s former friends. To the hip-hop community, Gunna only had two options—rot in or rat out'

We needed this! justin lamar brooks
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“And as of now, the state of Georgia’s prosecution of YSL is distorting reality to sow irreversible discord in and beyond Atlanta’s hip-hop community.”

My latest in Slate on Gunna, a survivor of carceral violence and punishment.

NEW: In Brownsville, a young man tossed an empty pack of candy toward a trash can. Cops lurched from their cruiser and the young man ended up bloody - an encounter illustrating emerging anger over the NYPD's aggressive low level enforcement campaign.

nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-c…

A neglected prison of utter horror, with no power, no water and leaked footage of astonishing violence. When rap superstar Jay-Z steps in, a bitter legal case begins to reform Parchman Prison and help all of those inside.

#ExposingParchman starts Sunday 25th June, 10pm.

I hate when I post an article about a person dying in prison, it will have basically a person's name, age & maybe a mugshot.

When Justin Brooks read that his childhood friend Joshua Norman had died in Parchman he wrote this piece about him for The Appeal. theappeal.org/parchman-missi…

Damn Kobe and then getting the news about his friend passing, feel for Justin Brooks.

Here’s the letter he wrote on behalf of his friend who passed in Parchman: theappeal.org/parchman-missi…

#ExposingParchman #blkcreatives