living while black

  1. Rhapscallion Démone

    Brooklyn judge awards $4.5 million to black man who was beaten by Jewish safety patrol.

    A Brooklyn judge awarded $4.5 million to a Black Brooklyn man who was partially blinded in a severe beating in 2013 by members of a Hasidic safety patrol in Williamsburg. “It’s been nine years,” said Taj Patterson, now 31. “A lot of back and forth. A lot of legal scenarios I didn’t understand...
  2. Rhapscallion Démone

    Dunkin Debbie calls police on customers for speaking their native language

    NBCNews.com: Dunkin' employee calls police on student speaking Somali with her family. Dunkin' employee calls police on student speaking Somali with her family A student activist said a Dunkin' employee in Portland, Maine, refused service and called police on her after a dispute started because...
  3. Quasi

    On being Big and Black, and the fear it inspires

    * There's a discussion to be had about how differently the world perceives big, Black individuals. We tend to strike a different, dangerous kind of fear in the hearts of others even as we simply move through space. Black physicality is seemingly only appreciated and adored when it is placed in...
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