The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century’s most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world’s attention for nearly 50
This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century’s most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world’s attention for nearly 50
Movie Synopsis: Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, at the hands of a police officer. She quickly begins facing pressure from all sides, and she must learn to find her voice and stand up for what’s right. Content Warning: Racism, police brutality, gang activity, violence, poverty Book Description: “Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her
The National Coalition of 100 Black Women connects Black girls and women with educational opportunities, community programs, mentors, and professional development in the fields of health, education, and economics. “We believe that young Black girls succeed. We believe that Black women achieve. We believe that Black girls and women thrive. By connecting Black women and girls with mentors, programs, education, and professional development, we strive to ensure every Black woman and girl has an equal opportunity to attain prominence in the fields of: • Health • Education • Economics Our organization advocates on behalf of Black women and girls to achieve their full
After his arrest at age 16, Kalief Browder fought the system and prevailed, despite unthinkable circumstances. He became an American
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a refreshing approach that will radically reorient America on the urgent issues of race, justice, and
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy. Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding