Raul A. Reyes: Brisenia Flores Was a Victim of Border Vigilantes and Media Indifference

Raul A. Reyes: Brisenia Flores Was a Victim of Border Vigilantes and Media Indifference [huffpo.com] - Compare Brisenia's tragedy to that of another nine-year-old in
Arizona. When Christina Taylor Green was killed in the attack on
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, her death led to national
soul-searching over the tenor of our political discourse. Christina was
eulogized in President Obama's 2011 State of the Union address as her family sat with the First Lady.

Or consider the murder of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz
last year. Krentz was shot by unknown assailants who were believed to
be undocumented immigrants. His death inspired an outcry over illegal
immigration. Politicians invoked his name at Department of Homeland
Security hearings and in the subsequent passing of SB 1070.

I don't mean to take away from the suffering of the Green and Krentz
families. However, Brisenia's death did not provoke anywhere near the
same amount of attention, let alone outrage by politicians and the news
media.

A Radical Profeminist: "The Disposable Woman" by Anna Holmes. The disposable woman is "she" who Charlie Sheen and Piers Morgan most likely will never see as fully human--as human as Charlie and Piers are to one another

A Radical Profeminist: "The Disposable Woman" by Anna Holmes. The disposable woman is "she" who Charlie Sheen and Piers Morgan most likely will never see as fully human--as human as Charlie and Piers are to one another: "The Disposable Woman' by Anna Holmes. The disposable woman is 'she' who Charlie Sheen and Piers Morgan most likely will never see as fully human--as human as Charlie and Piers are to one another"

Black Actresses: Symbols of Our Femininity? « Charcoal Ink

Black Actresses: Symbols of Our Femininity? « Charcoal Ink: "Yet have they come far enough? Everyone remembers that watershed moment when Hallie Berry made her electrifying and heartfelt speech when she won the Oscar for Monster’s Ball. Berry’s acting in Monster’s Ball was first class as was her break-out role in Jungle Fever. What about the women who had come before her? Which actresses do you rate and why?"

Low-Self Esteem, Bashing, or Just Keepin’ It Real? « Zaire

Low-Self Esteem, Bashing, or Just Keepin’ It Real? « Zaire: "About a week ago Abagond did a post on black women, white men, and the dynamics between the two. Most commenters focused on the lack of romantic relationships between the two groups. The nature of the post led people to comment on black women’s place on the beauty totem pole and whether interracial relationships with white men are an attainable for black women(as if being with a white man is something to “aspire” to, LMAO). A commenter by the name of Chuck speculated that white men (as a group) may be innately less attracted to black women than they are other races of women, and visa versa. While others argued that racialized beauty standards, negative stereotypes, and other non-biological factors were the reason for low number of black female/white male unions"

MR LAURELTON QUEENS: OFF "LAURELTONUMENTARY' UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA STUDY ON INTERRACIAL DATING (THE MYTH OF RECIPROCITY BY WHITE MEN) LOVE.. NEVER KNEW WHAT I WAS MISSING (COMING SOON KISS THE RING)

MR LAURELTON QUEENS: OFF "LAURELTONUMENTARY' UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA STUDY ON INTERRACIAL DATING (THE MYTH OF RECIPROCITY BY WHITE MEN) LOVE.. NEVER KNEW WHAT I WAS MISSING (COMING SOON KISS THE RING)

Mixed Race America: It still matters if you're black (or white)

Mixed Race America: It still matters if you're black (or white): "Despite what Michael Jackson may have sung about once-upon-a-time, I believe it DOES matter if you're black or white.

Meaning, it matters, still, whether you identify as African American or as Caucasian. Meaning, it matters if you benefit from white privilege. Meaning it matters how others perceive you, especially depending on where you are, regionally and contextually (ie: are you in the U.S. South or the West Coast? In a cosmopolitan city or a rural township? Are you in a classroom where you are the only one, and is this a course on 20th Century American writers or African American poets?)"

America's anti-Muslim debate skips the Q.C. | Charlotte | News | The N word

America's anti-Muslim debate skips the Q.C. Charlotte News The N word: "In my travels, when I tell people that I live in Charlotte, I receive mixed responses. Some people say, 'Everybody's trying to move to Charlotte.' Others say they could never live that far in the South because people are racist. Some people are even rude enough to suggest that people in the South are 'dumb,' which they feel free saying to my face. When I tell them I was born and raised in the South, they sometimes say, 'I'm not talking about you.' Really."

DRESS’ING UWINNIPEG RED: Aboriginal women across Canada

DRESS’ING UWINNIPEG RED: Aboriginal women across Canada

UW RELEASE - 2011/034

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011

WINNIPEG, MB - The University of Winnipeg’s Institute for Women’s
and Gender Studies (IWGS) in partnership with local Métis artist Jaime
Black proudly presents the inaugural and campus-wide installation of the
REDress Project from March 7-12, 2011. This interdisciplinary on-campus
art & education project aims to raise awareness surrounding the murders
and disappearances of more than 600 Aboriginal women across Canada.

“The installation of the REDress Project is a logical, and timely,
extension of the community-building work that IWGS has been engaged in
over the last several years with organizations such as the Coalition of
Families of Missing and Murdered Women in MB, the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, and the Art Building Community symposium,”
explained Kim Hunter, IWGS Projects and Events Coordinator. “IWGS
continues to focus on the ways in which art can be used in tandem with
education to address the issues that affect our communities.”

Along with the installation of 120+ dresses, IWGS is coordinating free
events in conjunction with the project including daily tours of the
installation, providing educational materials, supporting a movie
screening as well as a panel of speakers. This project is designed to
provide an environment for students, staff, faculty and the general
public to learn through engagement through art, and to provide
opportunities for conversation about the serious impact of this gendered
and racialized violence on all of the peoples of Canada.

REDress Project EVENTS - all events open to the public:
Installation Tours (includes 8 installation locations)
All tours start at escalators, 1st floor Centennial Hall at UW

March 7 - 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm
March 8 - 7:00 pm
March 9 - 10:00 am and 4:00 pm
March 10 - 12:30 and 4:00 pm
March 12 - 2:30 pm

Tuesday March 8
Free Cinema Politica screening of Finding Dawn
7:30 pm, Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, UWinnipeg (free childcare, snacks and
bus tickets available).

Lisa Michell - advocate, activist and chairperson of the Women’s
Memorial March of MB - will host a discussion after the film. IWGS,
along with Ka Ni Kanichihk's Aboriginal Women Reclaiming Our Power
program (supported by Status of Women and Heritage Canada), are honoured
to support the UWSA, UWSA Womyn's Centre and Gallery 1C03 in the
screening of this important film.

Wednesday March 9
REDress Panel Discussion
12:30 pm, Convocation Hall, UWinnipeg (Free, snacks available)
With REDress Project artist Jaime Black, filmmaker & activist Tina
Keeper, volunteer for Amnesty International and member of the Stop
Violence Against Aboriginal Women Action Group Lisa Forbes, and artist
Leah Decter.
For more information about REDress events please contact Kim Hunter iwgs@uwinnipeg.caThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 204.786.9921.

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Bill Cunningham and Jesse Lee Peterson Rant Off About Black America!

Two controversial conservative activists attack Black America. Nationally syndicated talk radio host Bill Cunningham and anti-Black activist Jesse Lee Peterson discuss issues facing Black America.

Recy Taylor: A Symbol of Jim Crow's Forgotten Horror

Recy Taylor: A Symbol of Jim Crow's Forgotten Horror: "Recy Taylor: A Symbol of Jim Crow's Forgotten Horror
After her brutal gang rape, Recy Taylor became a global symbol of American injustice and helped inspire the civil rights movement. So why has nobody heard of her today?"

AverageBro.com: AB.com Guest Post - Halle Berry, Interracial Marriage, And The "One Drop Rule".

AverageBro.com: AB.com Guest Post - Halle Berry, Interracial Marriage, And The "One Drop Rule".: "When I was growing up in SE Michigan during the Antediluvian Era, there weren't a whole lot of self-identified 'biracial' or 'multiracial' people. You were Black or White. There was a very small population of East/South Asians and a few people of Hispanic or Middle Eastern heritage (primarily Lebanese or Chaldeans who infrequently identified as 'White')

Black/White mixed kids identified as the race they most looked like or lived next to-which given housing patterns usually meant they declared themselves 'Black' about 95% of the time. Those were the rules then. Pick a team!!!"

EU HR NGOs to hold Int. Conference on Palestinian prisoners

EU HR NGOs to hold Int. Conference on Palestinian prisoners: "Palestine, (Pal Telegraph)-Under the slogan (working for justice), various European human rights organisations are preparing to hold the first international conference on the rights of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons. Tthe conference will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, March 11-12, 2011 in order to unite the efforts of many Palestinian and European members of parliament and human rights activists who work to support the Palestinian prisoners under one dome.

The conference will be organised by three Human rights organisations which are: Right for All (Droit Pour Tous), The European Network to Support the Rights of the Palestinian Prisoners (UFree) and North-South 21, these organisations are aiming to combine their efforts to work against the brutal actions against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons."