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===== The Black Panthers shook America awake before the party was eviscerated by the US government. Their children paid a steep price, but also emerged with unassailable pride and burning lessons for today ===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/mar/25/what-happens-when-the-us-declares-war-on-your-parents-the-black-panther-cubs-know by Ed Pilkington 25/3/25 The Guardian] | |||
Fred Hampton Jr was days away from taking his first breath when his father was assassinated. Still in his mother’s womb, he would have sensed the shots fired by police into his parents’ bedroom at the back of 2337 Monroe Street, Chicago. | |||
===== What 100 Years of History Tells Us About Racism in Policing ===== | ===== What 100 Years of History Tells Us About Racism in Policing ===== | ||
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[https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01527-z by Melissa Nobles, Chad Womack, Ambroise Wonkam & Elizabeth Wathuti 8/6/22 nature] | [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01527-z by Melissa Nobles, Chad Womack, Ambroise Wonkam & Elizabeth Wathuti 8/6/22 nature] | ||
Science is a human endeavour that is fuelled by curiosity and a drive to better understand and shape our natural and material world. Science is also a shared experience, subject both to the best of what creativity and imagination have to offer and to humankind’s worst excesses. | Science is a human endeavour that is fuelled by curiosity and a drive to better understand and shape our natural and material world. Science is also a shared experience, subject both to the best of what creativity and imagination have to offer and to humankind’s worst excesses. | ||
=====Make Black history core to degrees, tie tenure to anti-racism efforts===== | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02235-2 by Cheryl Gore-Felton, Christina Tara Khan & Jacqueline Njenga 28/7/20 nature] | |||
Elite institutions are well positioned to set the standard on how to dismantle systemic racism and discrimination. As African American and Black women working at a leading US medical school, we are tired of rhetoric and euphemisms that are not yet matched with policy and action. We are ready to engage in a productive partnership with our institutional leaders to create a culture of diversity and inclusion that acts on principles of social justice and human rights. | |||
===== Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ ===== | ===== Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ ===== | ||
