activism

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3kdw/tenants-and-economists-are-pushing-to-regulate-rent-for-a-vast-amount-of-us-housing Tenants and Economists Are Pushing to Regulate Rent for a Vast Amount of U.S. Housing A growing movement is pressuring the government to regulate rents on buildings where...

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/taylor-swift-encourages-voter-registration/ More than 35,000 people register to vote after Taylor Swift post BY ALIZA CHASAN SEPTEMBER 21, 2023 / 6:50 PM / CBS NEWS Taylor Swift called out to fans to register on National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday...

@phyve_kisses News reporter: "it's kinda hectic out here":francis: Phyve: "yeah its ight":obama:

Colin Kaepernick sacrificed his life long dream and a lucrative career for his people and they couldn't even turn off the TV for just one season. It seems like all of the black NFL fans I know have abandoned the boycott. All of them are back to their Sunday ritual. None of his peers sat out...

Harry Belafonte (r) with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King at the March on Montgomery, 1965. Harry Belafonte has been a household name across the United States and around much of the world for seventy years. He’s ninety now—and his legendary resonant voice is a bit harder to...

Treva Lindsey's new book explores the details of Washington, D.C.'s unique status as a hotbed of cultural and political activism by Black Women in D.C. in the late 1800's and early 1900's-- a time when both gender and racial roles were quickly shifting...

In 16 days, Ida B Wells-Barnett would be 155 years old. Barnett was a fearless anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, Black women's rights advocate, journalist, and speaker. She stands as one of our nation's most uncompromising leaders and most ardent defenders of democracy. Interestingly enough...

According to legend, Abraham Lincoln greeted Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862 by saying "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." Whether the story is true or not, the sentiment underscores the public connection between Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Civil War. ^...

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I'm putting together a stand up comedy charity show but the fact that it's at a bar limits the organizations that will accept donations. After realizing that I could not work with Wounded Warrior in this manner, I went looking for another group (some organizations don't appreciate donations...

Apparently slavery already came back :lupe: for more info: #WholeFrauds hashtag on Twitter

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Young brother provides thoughtful criticism of the BLM movement and offers up important historical examples of successful black activism. source

Good piece from John Nichols of The Nation