I have a dream, ML King. From Discrimination to Inclusion. I Am Not Your Negro Official Trailer. I am not your Negro - questions. Eric Reid, first player to kneel with Kaepernick, ends spell in NFL wilderness. Eric Reid, the first NFL player to join Colin Kaepernick’s protest against racial injustice in the United States, has signed with the Carolina Panthers.
In May, Reid filed a collusion grievance against the NFL alleging he has been kept out of the league due to his political stance. Reid’s deal with the San Francisco 49ers expired in March, and on playing ability alone he would have been expected to have found a new team quickly: in 2013 he was named to the Pro Bowl as a rookie after being drafted in the first round and has had a solid career since. Reid believed that, like Kaepernick, he was unemployed due to his political views. “The notion that I can be a great signing for your team for cheap, not because of my skill set but because I’ve protested systemic oppression, is ludicrous. If you think [it] is, then your mindset is part of the problem too,” Reid wrote on Twitter earlier this year. Kaepernick offered his congratulations to Reid on Twitter shortly after the news broke.
#BlackLivesMatter: the birth of a new civil rights movement. Alicia Garza was in a bar in Oakland, California, drinking bourbon when the verdict came in. It was July 2013 and she had been following the trial of George Zimmerman, a neighbourhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Florida, who had shot dead a 17-year-old African-American by the name of Trayvon Martin in February of the preceding year. Martin had been unarmed, on his way back from a 7/11 convenience store where he had just bought himself an iced tea and a bag of Skittles.
There had, of course, been shootings of young black men before. But this one had a particular resonance. Garza had a younger brother of a similar height and build to Martin. In the bar, Garza, her husband and her two friends had been checking their phones for updates from the trial. “Everything went quiet, everything and everyone,” Garza says now. Garza logged on to Facebook. Garza’s close friend, Patrisse Cullors, read the post in a motel room 300 miles away from Oakland that same night. Black Lives Matter worksheet. Black Americans mostly left behind? From segregation to inclusion. Being Black in the USA vocab. How students benefit from school diversity. Civil Rights Movement Grammar. America's Long Overdue Awakening on Systemic Racism.
Toni Morrison: An excerpt from her Nobel lecture. The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, midwifery properties for menace and subjugation.
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless media; whether it is the proud but calcified language of the academy or the commodity-driven language of science; whether it is the malign language of law-without-ethics, or language designed for the estrangement of minorities, hiding its racist plunder in its literary cheek — it must be rejected, altered and exposed. It is the language that drinks blood, laps vulnerabilities, tucks its fascist boots under crinolines of respectability and patriotism as it moves relentlessly toward the bottom line and the bottomed-out mind. We die. That may be the meaning of life. Bob Marley, a true legend whose songs still carry meaning today. Community, shout-news, Bob Marley, Damascus, Jamaican, reggae, Ballarat, SHOUT, music Music produced can describe emotions, events or people.
It is eclectic and diverse, and can both unite and polarise people, situations and causes. A true musical ‘legend’ is the iconic Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley. While many of us can recognise his image from t-shirts and posters, I wonder how many have heard his music and understand how meaningful his collection of songs still are today. Nesta Robert Marley – Bob Marley – was born in Jamaica in 1945. Music produced can describe emotions, events or people. While many of us can recognise his image from t-shirts and posters, I wonder how many have heard his music and understand how meaningful his collection of songs still are today.
Nesta Robert Marley – Bob Marley – was born in Jamaica in 1945. The poverty and racism he experienced shaped him and his music. Sadly, Bob Marley passed away with melanoma in 1981 at the age of 36. Redemption Song - Bob Marley.