The true story behind the acclaimed movie 12 Years a Slave, this book is based on the life of Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York who was captured in the United States and sold into slavery in Louisiana.
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White guy kills a black teenager: nobody calls the police.
Store Clerk Found Guilty Of Murder In Shooting Of Black Teen Who Stole Beer
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Anwar Ghazali faces up to 25 years in prison for killing 17-year-old Dorian Harris outside a corner store in Memphis, Tennessee.5 hours ago
I find this funny... not the fact a young man was gun down but the fact you're calling the shooter a white guy. He's clearly of middle eastern descent and just a couple years ago you were referring to people from the middle east as people of color. Guess it depends on how your shaping the narrative as to if he would be white or a person of color. If he was affected by #45's travel ban I am certain you would be referring to him as a person of color.
Parents teach our children not to steal. Store Mgr took a life over alleged stealing, that's wrong!!! There were several other options the Mgr could have taken; & he didn't. He didn't bother to call for help or report the shooting of the alleged stealing. Poor child bleed to death😢😢 Yep, 25yrs 4-premeditated murder!
Stole? I go into the store every day, why am I still alive?
It doesn’t matter what or who the store manager is, he’s a murderer.
I really want all of this ignorance to end Joe.
All that time he will be Sober when released yrs from now
stop stealing.
It's bad enough you gotta why about the cops you gotta worry about store clerks too.
Stealing is not right … but to take ones life over a $2. beer. Panhandlers get more than that by asking.
TWO FUCKING DAYS?? smfh.
He wasn’t white though, he was Arab.
Bye
Yes stealing is wrong but it does not justify chasing a person down for beer and murdering them..being judge ..jury..and executioners..black males are the only group who are guilty until proven innocent..he probably had been waiting to do that.
He didn't deserve to die but there's some things you can't do knowing our species has a target on its back.
White Store Manager, in Store kills Black Teenager, for stolen Beer. Maybe, some people think Black People and People of Color are property. Doing the Institution of Slavery, Black People and People of Color were compared to horses, cows and other farm animals. It's pathetic and ashamed, a young man's life has been taken for stealing Beer. This is 2019. But with a Racist environment brewing, nothing surprises me anymore. With the rise of White Nationalist and White Supremacists darkness is circulating, in the air. Darkness is hovering over our Nation's Capital. Voting, is Critical for change.
Illinois Prison Banned Books On Black History And Empowerment From Inmate Program
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In Illinois 3 out of every 4 inmates are black, yet, an Illinois prison banned an inmate education program from using books discussing black history or empowerment due to their “racial” content. A...8 hours ago
Wow Joe from our days together in Detroit to now. We must stay diligent and voice each injustice no matter how small or whoever it affects. Keep up the good work you are in our prayers
That doesn't surprise me. The goal of these prisons is to keep these inmates down, simply on violations by not being able to meet their goals. reading is one of them.
Wish I was surprised.
How can anyone expect for the so called " rehabilitation" to be effective? The sole purpose for prisons are to keep our people in bondage & close surveillance by the system....hence probation, house arrest, etc. The world we live in
Rehabilitation should be the goal of prisons. We want people to be punished for the crime,but if we invested more in rehabilating people instead of engaging punishments that don't work we would be better off. We want people to live civlly so why not invest in programs that rehabilitate in the prisons so that when they do come back to society, they can do right. We spend too much on prisons and with high incarceration rate that we have, we should be doing something different.
This is the very opposite of what they should be doing. "When we know better, we do better"
No rehabilitation desired...just keep them in the revolving door to the prison system. We were not supposed to survive slavery!
Let's protest the stock market run prison system. Without us it's not profitable. We make up the majority of inmates and the majority of staff
It Ashame they don't want us to know our HISTORY ...But I'm not surprised....SAD AND VERY DISTURBING...
Write your own books. Don't let them discourage you.
Dam they didn’t want the slaves to read either, but they found a way, just like these young black men will do trust me, we always find a way to overcome our set backs hand us by our oppressors
Let’s go back too slavery i don’t know if was written law or not ,but it was forbidden for slaves too learn too read ,knowledge was dangerous if slaves knew how too read for the ole slave master ,some learned however.Black history books are loaded with information ,that’s not in American history books
The jet eye mind trick is, the very people it's intended to exploit, are the very people excited, calling it a badge of honor to go. How do you fight that?
They have never wanted us to Celebrate who we are, no matter where we are, mentality or physically. Black KNOWLEDGE will always be the weapon that destroys them. They know this so the cage us. They fear the upRISING of the black race, more specifically, the black male...
Why are they reading book? This is prison! It is punishment for a crime committed.
I was waiting on that happen!
Yep! But are you really surprised?
No different than the public school system , teaching made up history ....
Again that culture of I know what’s best. You don’t need to learn your history. Learn my history
Always something!!!!
There was a period, in our dark History, when it was illegal and a crime, to teach our Black Ancestors how to read. Going, to School was impossible. Now, there are profitable Prisons where the inmates are predominantly, Black and denied access, to read about their decedents. Isn't reading, suppose to be part of rehabilitation? The Warden and Powers that Be maybe, preventing Black inmates, from obtaining and reading about their own Black History. It should be a Blessing, for Society when people can read, rather than a curse. Somewhere I read the Government was trying to eliminate illiteracy, in all facets of our Society. It appears,the darkness of racism isn't invisible, to inmates, even doing incarceration. Our system of Government isn't functioning effectively. Vote!!!
That's how you keep the doors revolving.
Don't public schools across America ban black history too? That glossed over bullshit & lies is not black history.
America has lost her whole dang mind!
So they don't want them educating themselves on the good things blacks done in history....bet they won't ban reading or writing of rap lyrics talking about murder or selling dope.....
But before he reinvented haute couture, Daniel R. Day was a hungry boy with holes in his shoes, a teen who daringly gambled drug dealers out of their money, and a young man in a prison cell who found nourishment in books. In this remarkable memoir, he tells his full story for the first time.
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By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi (winner of the 2019 James Beard Foundation Award for Rising Star Chef of the Year) had opened—and closed—one of the most talked about restaurants in America. He had launched his own catering company with twenty thousand dollars that he made from selling candy on the subway, yet he’d been told he would never make it on television because his cooking wasn’t “Southern” enough. In this inspiring memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, he shares the remarkable story of his culinary coming-of-age.
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