Tag: Occupy Wall Street

I Don’t Care What Anyone Says. Lupe Fiasco Rapping Over Andre 3000’s New Blue Sun Is a Dope Idea

All I want is dope music. I don’t care how it comes to be (in most cases). Whether it’s a diss track, an instrumental track, an acapella track, or a remix, just make it good. Tackling A Black Maternal Health Crisis & Embracing Reproductive Justice | The Root Institute Off English This is why I […]

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Damn! $10M of Morehouse Student Loans Wiped Clean…And It Wasn’t Biden Who Did It

Lawd… I’ve seen what you’ve done for others. Others meaning the students at Morehouse College who were just relieved of up to $10 million in student debt across 2,000 accounts thanks to a debt union. COVID’s Shocking Effect on Black Life Expectancy Off English Morehouse announced their partnership with the Debt Collective, a non-profit debt […]

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The Mass Disappointment of a Decade of Mass Protest

And the concept of prefiguration, for its part, freights radical movements—sometimes for better, often for worse—with deep obligations beyond the already difficult tasks of winning and securing power, holding themselves to standards that state actors and other powerful opponents don’t have to meet. Graeber, Bevins writes, acknowledged specifically that leaderlessness and anti-hierarchical organizational structures would […]

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New Deal Will Test Whether N.Y.P.D. Can Alter Its Response to Protests

Protesters were thousands-thick in Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan’s East Village when the police moved in with horses and nightsticks. The tactics were described by a labor leader as “an orgy of brutality” and brought a public outcry demanding that police officials be fired. This was not a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020, or […]

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