“The ANSWER to injustice is not to silence the critic but to END THE INJUSTICE.”
JUSTICE FOR AHMAUD ARBERY / PETITION
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TEN TINY HOMES for TRANS WOMEN
oluwatoyin “Toyin” salau — HELP
DOMINIQUE " REM'MIE " FALLS - HOMiCIDE
LAYLEEN POLANCO-ANOTHER TRANS HOMICIDE
RIAH MILTON - YET ANOTHER TRANS HOMiCIDE
RAYSHARD BROOKS - ASLEEP/KILLED BY POLICE
ROBERT FULLER - BLACK MAN HANGED in CA
MALCOLM HARSCH - BLACK MAN HANGED In CA
BREONNA TAYLOR/PETITION KILLED BY POLICE
IYANNA DIOR - MN TRANS WOMAN ASSAULTED
TONY MCDADE - TRANS MAN KILLED BY POLICE
NINA POP - LGBTQ MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY
George FLOYD - KILLED BY MN POLICE IN 8:46
THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: EXONERATE THE INNOCENT (watch when they see us netflix)
ALI FORNEY CENTER: PROTECT LGBTQ+ HOMELESS YOUTH // HOMELESS BLACK TRANS WOMEN
HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: SUPPORT LGBTQ+ YOUTH
RAINBOW RAILROAD: DONATE (both an immigration and freedom fund!)
LGBTQ Freedom Fund: LGBTQ FUND - DONATE (both an immigration and freedom fund!)
— NATIONWIDE BAIL FUND DIRECTORY —
Minneapolis, MN: THEY’VE GOT SOME EXPLAINING TO DO….
Los AngelEs, CA: Black Lives Matter, LA (Not exclusively a bail fund but allocating funds for bailing out protestors)
Oakland, CA: Bay Area Relief
New York City: Brooklyn Community Bail Fund // @freethemall2020
Buffalo, NY: SURJ Buffalo Bail Fund (no longer accepting donations)
Albany, NY: Albany Bail Fund for Black Lives
Washington, DC: Eliminated cash bail in the 90's, but @DMVBlackLives has a legal support fund for protestors
Atlanta, GA: Action Network, Atlanta
Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Action Legal Team
Chicago, IL: Chicago Bond
Detroit, MI: Detroit Bail Fund
Philly, PA: Philadelphia Community Bail Fund
Cleveland, OH: Black Lives Matter - Cleveland
Columbus, OH: Columbus Freedom Fund
Louisville, KY: action network louisville
Seattle, WA: NW Community Bail Fund
Nashville, TN: NASHVILLE BAIL FUND
Richmond, VA: Richmond County Bail Fund
Pittsburg, PA: Bukit Bail Fund
Houston, TX: Restoring Justice Bail
Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Freedom Fund
Las Vegas, NV: Vegas Freedom Fund
Kansa City, MO: Kansas City Comm. Bail Fund
Jacksonville, FL: Jax Community Action
Tampa, FL: Tampa Bay Students for Democratic Society
New Orleans, LA: @NOLAFreedomFund // Safety Freedom Fund
Dallas, TX: Faith in TX (Not exclusively a bail fund but allocating funds for bailing out protestors)
Colorado Freedom Fund: Colorado Freedom Fund
Massachusetts: Mass. Bail Fund posts bails of up to $2000 in Essex & Suffolk Counties
Omaha, NE: The Nebraska Left Coalition
Durham, NC: NC Comm. bail fund
Hawai’i: Hawai’i Community Bail Fund is a project of the Dem. Socialists of Hawai’i
Tucson, AZ: Tucson Second Chance Community Bail Fund
DeS Moine, IA: Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project
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Toronto, CANADA: Toronto Bail Fund
SPECIAL THANKS TO issatrae AND MATTHEW A. CHERRY
REQUIRED READING
// #YGBQ ECONOMICS //
Large income gaps persist between men — but not women.
Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for BLACK BOYS
The New York Times
White boys who grow up rich are likely to remain that way. Black boys raised at the top, however, are more likely to become poor than to stay wealthy in their own adult households.
Most white boys raised in wealthy families will stay rich or upper middle class as adults, but black boys raised in similarly rich households will not.
// #YGBQ HEALTH | WELLNESS //
Jennings taking part in Sturdevant’s support group in May. Participants were asked to look in the mirror & say something positive about themselves.
AMERICA'S HIDDEN HIV EPIDEMIC: GAY BLACK MEN
The New York Times
LAST YEAR, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, using the first comprehensive national estimates of lifetime risk of H.I.V. for several key populations, predicted that if current rates continue, one in two African-American gay and bisexual men will be infected with the virus. That compares with a lifetime risk of one in 99 for all Americans and one in 11 for white gay and bisexual men.
// #YGBQ ECONOMICS //
250 years of slavery. 90 years of Jim Crow. 60 years of separate but equal. 35 years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
The CASE for REPARATIONS
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
America was built on the preferential treatment of white people—395 years of it. Vaguely endorsing a cuddly, feel-good diversity does very little to redress this.
Liberals today mostly view racism not as an active, distinct evil but as a relative of white poverty and inequality. They ignore the long tradition of this country actively punishing black success—and the elevation of that punishment, in the mid-20th century, to federal policy. President Lyndon Johnson may have noted in his historic civil-rights speech at Howard University in 1965 that “Negro poverty is not white poverty.” But his advisers and their successors were, and still are, loath to craft any policy that recognizes the difference.
// honoring OUR #YGBQ ANCESTORS //
LORRAINE HANSBERRY
A Raisin in the Sun + Young, Gifted & Black PLAYWRIGHT, JOURNALIST & ACTIVIST
"I am a writer. I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist.
Though it is a thrilling and marvelous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly dynamic To Be Young, Gifted, & Black!
LORRAINE HANSBERRy (with NINA SIMONE), YGBQ ARTISTS & ACTIVISTS, c. 1963
// honoring OUR #YGBQ ANCESTORS //
NINA SIMONE
High Priestess of Soul // "to be Young, Gifted, & Black" SINGER/SONGWRITER/MUSICIAN & ACTIVIST
“To Be Young, Gifted & Black” — an ode to Lorraine Hansberry by Nina Simone, June 1969.
Interview & recording session: Live at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.
// honoring OUR #YGBQ ANCESTORS //
JAMES BALDWIN + BAYARD RUSTIN
JAMES BALDWIN - ACTIVIST/WRITER - the fire next time, GIOVANNI’s ROOM, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (JENKINS, 2019)
BAYARD RUSTIN ORGANIZER OF THE 1963 MARCH ON WASHINGTON FOR JOBS & ADVISOR TO REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.