Archive for August 2017
‘Little Miss Flint’ Helps 1,000 Local Students Get New School Supplies
Amariyanna Copeney, also known as “Little Miss Flint”, has started a school supply drive, Pack Your Back, in order to help out kids and families in Michigan struggling to get back on their feet since the city’s lead-in-the-water crisis.
Read MoreHey, Jeff Sessions: Remember When 6,000 White Americans Went on Strike to Keep 8 Black People From Getting Promoted?
An American history moment must include the disenfranchisement of African-Americans in terms of securing and sustaining in gainful employment. One such struggle was the 1944 Philadelphia Transit strike, where a mere eight promotions of black employees prompted the white male employees to stage a violent transit strike that resulted in the loss of thousands of soldiers’ lives during WWII. This all in protest against working alongside a few black men.
Read MoreDon’t Go to Mo.,… NAACP Issues Travel Advisory
African-Americans historically have subjectively lived in a world of racially based insecurities, malignment, threats, and even death throughout the United States. It seems to be “just a way of life,” for African-American peoples, still?Well, in the State of Missouri, there continues to be more of the same racially biased behaviors and attitudes bringing forth renewed restrictions in mobility brought about by new or renewed laws in the state of Missouri. According to the NAACP, Laws remenicent of days of Jim Crow, that dictated where, when, and how African-Americans can travel without threat of harm or death. Therefore, this law now has brought forth an urgency making it necessary to introduce travel codes and awareness methods and measures for the safety of African-Americans traveling within and throughout the State of Missouri.
Read MoreAmazon Is Developing An Alt-History Show Called ‘Black America’
By Zeba Blay, HuffPost Black Voices Will Packer, the man behind the hit comedy “Girls Trip,” is bringing a new show to Amazon that might give HBO a run for its money. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Packer is teaming up “Boondocks” creator Aaron McGruder on “Black America,” a drama set in an alternate history in…
Read MoreThese Profound Photos Masterfully Turn Racial Stereotypes On Their Head
Photos, taken for “O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine”, made an attempt to defeat racial stereotypes by reversing them. Take a look at them and the article here.
Read MoreInside the New Partnership Between Airbnb and the NAACP
NAACP and Airbnb launch a new collaboration of partnership to bring forth and create an atmosphere of inclusion with the African-American community throughout the United States. This partnership will include greater participation in all aspects from vending and supply services, to increasing the volume of African-American hosts. The efforts also endeavor to rid the Airbnb platform of those hosts that desire to be discriminatory against African-American patronage. Additionally, to assist with aiding African-Americans with keep their homes by educating homeowners how to become an Airbnb host. Enabling many to earn money renting their homes and rooms, helping them to maintain their mortgages.
Read MoreNAACP -On The Road To Change Part 1 – Civil Rights Organization Evolving To Tackle Modern Challenges
NAACP makes sweeping changes to their organization platform in order to better meet the modern day challenges that African-Americans face. Challenges representative of days ago, like Jim Crow legacies, laws, unjust judicial systems, housing covenants. educational barriers and restrictions of mobility in and throughout America for African Americans. New leadership is installed, new strategies toward improvement and greater inclusiveness of the youth is most important to how we effect change in the organization. Start by seeking opportunities that reach out and retain activists and activism involving youth of today.
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