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 Black History is Every Month: ‘They killed a white woman’: the killing that changed the civil rights movement; Tate Modern Commissions New Work From Kara Walker; October 1941. Greene County, Georgia. "Canned goods made by Doc and Julia Miller, Farm Security Administration clients; A black man was picking up trash outside his home. Then police confronted him; The Cruel Negligence of American Healthcare; "At the Grave of the Forgotten" by Effie Waller Smith

 ‘They killed a white woman’: Fifty-four years later, Leroy Moton looks back at the killing that changed the civil rights movement

‘They killed a white woman’: Fifty-four years later, Leroy Moton looks back at the killing that changed the civil rights movement

‘They killed a white woman’: Fifty-four years later, Leroy Moton looks b... A key turning point in the fight for African-American rights came in February 1965 when a white protester was ki...

Tate Modern Commissions New Work From Kara Walker

"Britain will soon get a taste of the African-American artist’s powerful and provocative vision"

Tate Modern Commissions New Work From Kara Walker | Colorlines

Tate Modern Commissions New Work From Kara Walker | Colorlines Britain will soon get a taste of the African-American artist’s powerful and provocative vision.

 October 1941. Greene County, Georgia. "Canned goods made by Doc and Julia Miller, Farm Security Administration clients with 1,000 jars of fruit, vegetables, etc. they have put up for the winter."

Shorpy Historic Picture Archive :: All the Jars: 1941 high-resolution photo

Shorpy Historic Picture Archive :: All the Jars: 1941 high-resolution photo Vintage photographs available as fine-art prints or digital stock images

A black man was picking up trash outside his home. Then police confronted him.

"The Boulder, Colo., police department is conducting an internal investigation after video surfaced of an officer questioning a black man who was picking up garbage in front of his residence. The officer has been placed on administrative leave until the investigation is complete.

On March 1, an officer approached the man as he was sitting in an area behind a private property sign and asked him if he had permission to be there, according to a department release. The Daily Camera reportedthat the man is a student at Naropa University in Boulder, and the building is listed as a school residence. Police have not publicly named the man or the officer.

Boulder Police Launch Internal Affairs Investigation Over Police Contact Boulder police have launched an internal affairs investigation over a police officer contact that took place at ...

Boulder police officer who confronted black man picking up trash on paid... The Boulder police officer who on Friday confronted a black man picking up trash and then called other officers...

The man gave the officer his school identification card and said he both worked and lived in the building. However, the officer continued to investigate and called for backup, “indicating that the person was uncooperative and unwilling to put down a blunt object.”

A black man was picking up trash outside his home. Then police confronted him.

A black man was picking up trash outside his home. Then police confronte... At least one of the officers drew his weapon from his holster. Boulder police are investigating the incident and...

The Cruel Negligence of American Healthcare

"Here is a story of how America murders its citizens through negligence, poverty, and racism. The Mississippi Clarion-Ledger reported yesterday on how a 23 year-old Mississippi woman, pregnant and mother to a toddler, died of an asthma attack in January near Houston, MS—where the local hospital has no emergency room.

Shyteria Shardae “Shy” Shoemaker had asthma, and when she began struggling to breathe one night at her cousins’ house, they called 911 and drove her to the nearest hospital, where they believed an emergency room would be open to save her. But it wasn’t; Trace Regional Hospital in Houston closed its emergency room five years ago. 

It gets worse. While they were trying to save her life, her cousins were reportedly forced onto the ground after police believed them to be a threat. Per the Clarion-Ledger:

The dispatcher instructed them to drive to the Houston Fire Department instead, LeKearis said. They arrived at 1:26 a.m., according to 911 records. Two firefighters were outside waiting for them, Blankenship said.

But the cousins said they didn’t think the firefighters were responding quickly enough, so they went back to the car and sped a block away to the downtown square where they tried to flag down a police officer in his car.

[...]

When the cousins arrived at the square in Houston, LeParishe said they went to an officer in his car for help. The officer saw the black men outside his car and hesitated, LeParishe said.

“He looked like he was shocked ... like he was scared, like we were gonna rob him,” LeParishe said. When another officer arrived on scene, LeParishe said “he was talking about we were too loud, too rowdy.”

The officer yelled at them to get at the ground and put his hand on his Taser while they complied, LeParishe said.

LeParishe believes he spent the last moments of his cousin’s life lying on the freezing ground as though he were a criminal suspect

Health care and Medicaid expansion in Mississippi

Health care and Medicaid expansion in Mississippi

The Cruel Negligence of American Healthcare

The Cruel Negligence of American Healthcare Libby Watson Here is a story of how America murders its citizens through negligence, poverty, and racism. The Mississippi Cl...

 "At the Grave of the Forgotten" by Effie Waller Smith

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend                                         March 10, 2019   At the Grave of the Forgotten   Effie Waller Smith

In a churchyard old and still, Where the breeze-touched branches thrill              To and fro, Giant oak trees blend their shade O’er a sunken grave-mound, made              Long ago.   No stone, crumbling at its head, Bears the mossed name of the dead              Graven deep; But a myriad blossoms’ grace Clothes with trembling light the place              Of his sleep.   Was a young man in his strength Laid beneath this low mound’s length,              Heeding naught? Did a maiden’s parents wail As they saw her, pulseless, pale,              Hither brought?   Was it else one full of days, Who had traveled darksome ways,             And was tired, Who looked forth unto the end, And saw Death come as a friend              Long desired?   Who it was that rests below Not earth’s wisest now may know,              Or can tell; But these blossoms witness bear They who laid the sleeper there              Loved him well.   In the dust that closed him o’er Planted they the garden store              Deemed most sweet, Till the fragrant gleam, outspread, Swept in beauty from his head              To his feet.   Still, in early springtime’s glow, Guelder-roses cast their snow              O’er his rest; Still sweet-williams breathe perfume Where the peonies’ crimson bloom              Drapes his breast.   Passing stranger, pity not Him who lies here, all forgot,              ’Neath this earth; Some one loved him—more can fall To no mortal. Love is all              Life is worth.            This poem is in the public domain.  About This Poem   “At the Grave of One Forgotten” was published in Rosemary and Pansies (Gorham Press, 1909).   Effie Waller Smith was born on January 6, 1879, in Pike County, Kentucky. She is the author of Rosemary and Pansies (Gorham Press, 1909), Rhymes from the Cumberland (Broadway Publishing, 1904), and Songs of the Month (Broadway Publishing, 1904). She died on January 2, 1960. Poetry by Smith   The Collected Works of Effie Waller Smith (Oxford University Press, 1991) "mulberry fields" by Lucille Clifton "Where the Sky Meets the Earth" by W. Todd Kaneko "Elegy for my husband" by Toi Derricotte