BBC – The city council of Asheville, North Carolina, has unanimously voted to give financial reparations to black people amid a surge in debate about the issue. Reparations – financial compensation to the descendants of enslaved people – have long been hotly contested. Asheville becomes one of the first US cities to approve reparations, joining the city of Evanston, Illinois, which approved a reparations measure in 2019. Evanston is taxing the legal cannabis industry to help the black community. https://bbc.in/2CM5v2c
THE GOOD NEWS FIRST:
- LULAC Tells Goya Foods CEO: Apologize Or #GOYAGOTTAGO; Nation’s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization To Take Up Boycott Question Saturday https://bit.ly/391q2w3
- National Fair Housing Alliance on Twitter: “Breaking News! @QuickenLoans is calling on @HUDgov to reconsider its proposed disparate impact rule! Quicken, the nation’s top mortgage lender, urged HUD to work together with lenders and civil rights groups to find a common ground proposal. https://bit.ly/397PdNA
- Meet the Navy’s first Black female fighter pilot – Task & Purpose https://bit.ly/2OxbMlc
- Business Leaders Urge Trump to Leave DACA Alone After Court Ruling – The New York Times https://nyti.ms/2OtzBdA
- Washington football team to announce nickname will be changed https://es.pn/3fA6PEc
- CDC Employees Call For Racial Justice At The Federal Agency : Shots – Health News : NPR https://n.pr/3ez6nVq
- MALDEF Supports Boycott of Goya Foods https://bit.ly/2ZChKaN
- ‘Brown’ – A timely book to combat stereotypes and encourage the celebration of skin colors of Black and brown people. https://bit.ly/2Oy19ys
AND NOW THE NEWS RELATED TO WHITE SUPREMACY:
- ‘Epic failure’: U.S. election officials warn of November chaos due to budget crunch – Reuters https://reut.rs/396r5dS
- Julian Edelman offers to take Jackson to Holocaust museum https://bit.ly/3ewJNMV
- Tucker Carlson’s top writer quits after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum – CNN https://cnn.it/394Q7dJ
- ICE offers six-week course on how to remove immigrants | Daily Mail Online http://dailym.ai/2OxbKtA
- Civil War descendants in Brazil fly Confederate flags – The Washington Post https://wapo.st/3fOMdIx
- Ayman Mohyeldin on Twitter: “So Ghislaine Maxwell who is charged with sex-trafficking minors – ignores police when they knocked on her door then goes to another room “quickly shutting the door” was arrested without incident But Breonna Taylor sleeping in her bed was shot 8 times and killed?” / Twitter https://bit.ly/3fwMmjv
- Views on race relations in California shift dramatically: survey – Los Angeles Times https://lat.ms/3fEQlug
- Don Winslow on Twitter: “Nothing to see here, just the President’s top advisor flashing white power signs to the camera… in the White House. https://t.co/Hv9mb8Hr2r” / Twitter https://bit.ly/394QXqT
- A Teenager Didn’t Do Her Online Schoolwork. So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile Detention. — ProPublica https://bit.ly/2BayX1I
- Edward Enninful OBE on Twitter: “Today I was racially profiled by a security guard whilst entering my work place. As I entered, I was instructed to use the loading bay. Just because our timelines and weekends are returning to normal, we cannot let the world return to how it was. Change needs to happen now.” / Twitter https://bit.ly/2Ou3s5G
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