LIFE IS MARVELLOUS WITH ALL HIS COLOURS
[Many thanks to Michael O’Neal (Society for Caribbean Studies) for bringing this item to our attention.] Latino Rebels reports that, earlier this month, the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras campus announced that it will create a new program of Afro-Diasporic and Racial Studies, thanks in part to a $700,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon […]
University of Puerto Rico to Create New Afro-Diasporic and Racial Studies Program — Repeating Islands
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As recently as 2005, the state of Virginia had eight centers like Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Facility, housing more than 1,300 delinquent youth. But by 2017, after a series of reforms, that number had shrunk to one. “It’s not that you can’t do good work here,” said Andy Block, who, since 2014, has served as the juvenile-justice department’s director. “But the place itself and the design and the size and the location are barriers to doing good work.” Block and others are working to close Bon Air and replace it with something that reflects the juvenile justice reforms that have taken hold in Virginia and across the country—a system that once focused on confinement is now dedicated to rehabilitation. In recent years, more than 70 percent of Virginia’s juvenile inmates were rearrested within three years of their release.* Read more on The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/projects/… *This documentary originally stated that Virginia has one of the highest recidivism rates in the country. This characterization was based on incomplete data. The documentary also stated that the three-year rearrest rate for current Bon Air inmates would be 74 percent. This was the rate for former juvenile inmates in Virginia in 2014. We regret the errors. Subscribe to The Atlantic on YouTube: http://bit.ly/subAtlanticYT
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Albert Woodfox is a former political prisoner who was held in solitary confinement for 43 years until he won his freedom just over three years ago. Now he is traveling the world and joins us in studio to discuss his new memoir, “Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope.” In it, he writes about his childhood and how his mother struggled to keep the family cared for, how as a teenager and young man he was in and out of jails and prisons, and how he became radicalized when he met members of the Black Panther Party and went on to establish the first chapter of the organization at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, to address horrific conditions at the former cotton plantation. Not long after this, he and fellow prisoner Herman Wallace were accused in 1972 of stabbing prison guard Brent Miller. The two men always maintained their innocence, saying they were targeted because of their political activity. Woodfox, Wallace and and a third man, Robert King, became collectively known as the Angola 3. For decades Amnesty International and other groups campaigned for their release. “Solitary confinement … is the most horrible and brutal nonphysical attack upon a human being,” Woodfox says.
A third Black woman has been arrested and charged for making “anti-White” statements in connection withthe beating of a White womanin New York, according to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz. Jahnaiya Williams, 19, was charged with assault as a hate crime and faces other charges, anews releasefrom Katz’s office said. Williams was arraigned Monday in[…]
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“July 20,2022 alone; 3 men died in Louisiana State Penitentiary:1 suicide & 2 overdoses. That’s not counting the rest of the month or yr. Y is it that,now laws have changed where men can & will be released,when it was once stated that 95% of the men in Angola would die there;are now going home daily & yet obstacle’s are still taking the lives of these men WHO R MAJORITY MEN OF COLOR? PPL, OPEN YA EYES!!! PPL OPEN YA MIND!!! I SAY AGAIN TODAY AS I SAID YESTERDAY,REACH OUT 2 YA LOVES ONE’S & OR FRIENDS INCARCERATED BC THE PRISON OFFICIAL’S DO NOT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THEM @ ALL.SO IF U LOVE THEM AS U SAY U DO IT WOULD VITALLY WISE OF U 2 ACTUALLY SHOW THAT LOVE VERSUS JUST SAYING THT WORD. 4 THOSE OF U WHO NEVER VISITED A PERSON IN PRISON,U CAN NOT…
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WHAT IS ‘WEATHERING’? THE PHENOMENON THAT IS KILLING BLACK PEOPLE SLOWLY
The term was coined by Arline Geronimus, associate director and professor of Health Behavior & Health Education at University of Michigan, to describe the erosion of health that impacts Black and Brown people much earlier in life than white Americans. Borrowing the term from environmental studies, weathering is similar to the soil erosion that happens overtime due to exposure to the elements — a small buildup of negatively impacting events eventually leads to a massive landslide or avalanche. In humans, this erosion is the accumulation of a broad range of adverse and largely preventable health conditions, like high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and poorer mental health, that lead to early death.
Racism forms cracks in our spirit, like cracks in the pavement of a busy road. Constant bouts of discrimination fill and expand the crack, like raindrops. Over time, the crack becomes a pothole that no longer resembles its original form. The same is true of our cells over time. A recent study found that Black adults had a biological age that was 2.6 years older than their actual age.
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OPINION: WEATHERING IS ROOTED IN A HISTORY OF MARGINALIZATION; REPEATED EXPOSURE TO SOCIOECONOMIC ADVERSITY, POLITICAL MARGINALIZATION, RACISM, AND PERPETUAL DISCRIMINATION THAT HARMS OUR HEALTH
RACISM KILLS; AND THAT IS MADE ABUNDANTLY CLEAR WITH EVERY BLACK LIFE LOST TO POLICE MISCONDUCT, ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD, OR STRESS-INDUCED ILLNESS.
BUT THE SLOW CRUMBLING OF OUR HEALTH DUE TO SYSTEMIC INEQUALITIES AND GENERATIONAL TRAUMA HAS A NAME THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT. SOCIAL SCIENTISTS NOW CALL REPEATED EXPOSURE TO SOCIOECONOMIC ADVERSITY, POLITICAL MARGINALIZATION, RACISM, AND PERPETUAL DISCRIMINATION THAT HARMS OUR HEALTH, WEATHERING — A PHENOMENON THAT KILLS US IN SLOW, LESS OBVIOUS WAYS…..
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Kenneth Johnson and Jacquelyn Johnson, the parents of Kendrick, reflect over photos of their fallen son in the new documentary “Finding Kendrick Johnson.” / Jason Pollock
The mysterious death of a Black high school wrestler in 2013 is the subject of “Finding Kendrick Johnson” — a new documentary out Friday — and the boy’s family is hoping its release could lead to people with information coming forward.
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