Jane Bolin, the first African-American woman to serve as a judge in the United States, the first African-American woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association and the first to join the New York City Law Department. She was sworn in as a judge in 1939. #
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“In high school, Fred was president of the Inter-racial Cross Section Committee. He was not just a leader of Blacks but whites as well. Fred became leader of the youth NAACP at the age of 17, fighting for jobs, better recreation facilities, open housing. He led demonstrations for a swimming pool in Maywood.
Fred attended Triton College, Malcolm X College, and University of Illinois Circle Campus pursuing a pre-law course of studies. So Fred had become very busy—he had worked in groups like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he met people like Stokely Carmichael, Dr. Ralph Abernathy, Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory and various other people.
After Fred left the youth NAACP and SNCC and started doing things in the Maywood community, he joined the Illinois Black Panther and they chose him as their chairman. While he was chairman, the Illinois Black Panthers were organizing free medical centers, free breakfast programs, free clothing and free busing to prison programs.
Fred told the people to fight for their rights by any means necessary. He was organizing hospital strikes. He also founded what he called the Rainbow Coalition of poor whites, Blacks, Latinos, Indians and Chicanos in the city of Chicago to fight against oppression.
Fred took the Young Lords, a Puerto Rican gang, and the Young Patriots, a white gang from the Uptown area, and made all these groups into a political organization because he was trying to get them to see that racism wasn’t the only problem—that racism was a byproduct of capitalism. He was going to take these groups to wipe out capitalism and oppression.
During the trial, it was shown that the police and FBI were trying to get the gangs against the Panthers because the Panthers were trying to unite the gangs to fight against their oppression.”
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Day 13 of #BlackHistoryYouDidntLearnInSchool - John Carlos & Tommie Smith
1968 Olympics The Black Power Salute Documentary
“If I win, I am American, not a black American. But if I did something bad, then they would say I am a Negro. We are black & we are proud.”
"We were just human beings who saw a need to bring attention to the inequality in our country.”
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Reclaiming Kings Legacy: A Jobs & Economy March for the People | Anti-Police Terror Project
“This weekend is part of a national call that will tell the world that King’s vision and mission were larger than what we have been allowed to remember. Through 96 hours of direct action and a Jobs & Economy March, we are reclaiming Dr. King’s radical and militant legacy of direct action. Mainstream media has painted him as a sanitized pacifist and often utilized him to denounce more militant forms of resisting oppression.”
Join us (click here) for a MLK day march that reclaims the spirit of King from whitewashed history and celebrates his legacy of radical resistance!
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Petulant, immature, unprofessional, armed, militarized cops acting out. What could go wrong?
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— Black-on-Black homicides have decreased by 67% in 20 years, a sharper rate of decrease than white on white homicide.
— According to FBI statistics 7361 Blacks were killed by fellow African-Americans in 1991. In 2011, it dropped dramatically to 2447 African-Americans.
— Among Black youth, rates of robbery and serious property offenses are the lowest in more than 40 years.
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File Under: facts you will never see or hear on FOX, or coming out of a Republican’s mouth, EVER.
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Look, I’m sorry, I know you’re super fucking stupid, so I’m sorry if any of this comes off as mean. (SIIIIIIIIIIKE).
But for real, when dumbfuck racists write in to try to complain that being against racist is somehow intolerant of racists, do you ever notice that they can hide their racism by railing vaguely against… who even fucking knows?
So, anonymous fuckface racist, when you complain that “those who honor Confederate soldiers” (brilliant-ish euphemism for “open fucking racists”, btw) lack “inclusion,” did you notice that you literally didn’t say inclusion in what??? Like, don’t worry, you fuck, you’re hugely over-represented in both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, a major news network, 99% of media and television, and every corporate boardroom, just to name, I don’t know, EVERY FUCKING IMPORTANT EXAMPLE.
Even better, you fucking double down on your idiocy, by complaining that people who aren’t racist fuckfaces “make a special effort to bring” and are “excluding” the people who are in the majority, but YOU NEGLECTED TO SAY WHAT THESE PEOPLE ARE BEING BROUGHT TO AND EXCLUDED FROM.
You know why, by the way? Because your victim complex is entirely in your own head. Why are you people (racists) always so paranoid and cowardly, needing to be brought along by people who aren’t complete pieces of shit??? Is it because your kind is just naturally lazy, lying, idiotic, fucks.
Real sad, if so.
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The first issue of Marvel’s new Thor is now on newsstands. In it, a mysterious woman shows that she, too, is worthy of wielding the hammer of Thor.
She joins a growing list of superhuman heroines leading their own comic books — Captain Marvel, Batgirl and Catwoman, among others — as Marvel and DC push to diversify and improve the representation of women on their pages.
Part of this improvement comes through in the way these characters are dressed. Instead of a tight black bathing suit, Captain Marvel now wears a red, blue and yellow jumpsuit that evokes her Air Force roots. Over in Gotham, Batgirl has ditched the tight spandex and bright yellow heels for a leather motorcycle jacket, a detachable cape and Doc Martens.
Where’s Thor When You Need Her? Women In Comics Fight An Uphill Battle
Image credit: Marvel
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