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InteractiveOn The 45th Anniversary of Malcolm X’s Assassination, Feeling El-Hajj
by Adrienne Maree Brown on February 22 2010, 10:29AM
This post originally appeared on Adrienne Maree Brown’s blog. Detroit Red is someone we all know. Bright, beautiful, hustling, trying everything, wanting more, with the unhealed recent familial and current experiences of racism all around like four walls, eyes bigger…
Topics: History
Alien Apartheid? A Race-Aware Viewing Guide for District 9
by Adrienne Maree Brown on August 16 2009, 11:36PM
just watched district 9. before i went, i heard a variety of reviews, from “totally racist” to “comprehensive critique on humanity” to “awesome action flick”. all i heard was: aliens in slums outside johannesberg and i knew i had…
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Ignore the Haters, Sierra Club!!: Open Letter to Allison Chin
by Adrienne Maree Brown on July 29 2009, 5:13PM
Dear Allison, Yesterday, the Sierra Club published a post on their Insider blog - “Yep, We’re Too White”. It’s a very short post highlighting that last week, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson called for more “diversity” in environmental movements, and you,…
Topics: Environment
by Adrienne Maree Brown on July 14 2009, 7:37AM
We’ve all heard about the incident at the Philly pool. Color of Change put out a great incident report in case you missed it. The incident is a classic whites-only racism incident, and it’s reminded me that as responsible racial…
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What’s UP with the US Social Forum?
by Adrienne Maree Brown on July 9 2009, 2:00AM
In 2010, the second US Social Forum will take place in Detroit Mi, from June 22-26. I keep meaning to write a piece that gives an inside look at what’s up with the forum, but time passes when you’re working…
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Michael Jackson - Who’s Loving You?
by Adrienne Maree Brown on June 26 2009, 12:12AM
While he lived, he was quite possibly the most listened to person alive. The most sampled and copied. The most played. The youngest person to make people move. The person most people tried to move like. He made us…
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by Adrienne Maree Brown on May 20 2009, 11:31AM
via www.adriennemareebrown.net/blog yesterday was malcolm x’s 84th birthday. happy birthday el-hajj malik el-shabazz. here’s a wonderful post from grace lee boggs on knowing malcolm. today i’ve been thinking about the violence of last night here in Oakland, and the lessons…
Topics: History
by Adrienne Maree Brown on March 17 2009, 1:12PM
you know i often hear forrest gump in my head. “i may not be a smart man, but i know what love is.” this economic moment has been crystallizing that phrase to me. i’ve been thinking a lot about what…
Topics: Economy
by Adrienne Maree Brown on February 28 2009, 1:54PM
The environmental movement is changing, slowly but surely. I weave in and out of the throng at Powershift 2009. Last year the conference was in Maryland, and the throng was spread out all over a campus. I spoke then on…
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by Adrienne Maree Brown on January 20 2009, 1:18PM
Now, at this moment, we have a black president. Black like many black people are, with a lot of other stories woven into his blackness, having organized for justice for years. Black in ways that many black people are not,…
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National Day of Nonviolent Action: Oscar Grant
by Adrienne Maree Brown on January 13 2009, 5:43PM
Tomorrow there will be a National Day of Nonviolent Action across the country in solidarity with the Praying for Peace, Marching for Justice Rally/March in Oakland, CA. Over the past week, clergy, young folks from Oakland, small business owners, non-profit…
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Update on Fruitvale BART Protest
by Adrienne Maree Brown on January 7 2009, 8:38PM
As I write this there are no less than 6 helicopters circling overhead in downtown Oakland. On the first day of the 10th year since Amadou Diallo was brutally gunned down by police in New York City, Oscar Grant was…
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by Adrienne Maree Brown on January 6 2009, 11:57PM
If you are in the Bay Area tomorrow, come out to the Fruitvale BART Station between 3-7pm to grieve, and protest. These have been days of bloody images. By now we have all seen the footage of young Oscar Grant…
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by Adrienne Maree Brown on January 2 2009, 9:18AM
On December 30, I attended a rally/memorial for Gaza in Dearborn, Michigan. Dearborn is home to the largest community of Arab and Arab-American people within US borders. I went with two young women who have focused on Palestinian human rights,…
Topics: Global Affairs
Closing Plenary: Race and the Global Economy
by Adrienne Maree Brown on November 15 2008, 3:00PM
Wow - Liepollo L. Pheko is amazing!! I caught the end of her talk, she’s part of The Trade Collective. She’s talking about global trade and global respect for human rights in trade. She just told a story of the…
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Creating a Culture of Racial Justice at Facing Race
by Adrienne Maree Brown on November 15 2008, 12:33PM
I’m sitting here at the tail end of a wonderful panel at Facing Race called Creating a Culture of Racial Justice. This is the panel that in many ways most excites me, because I think so much of the framing…
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Post Election Reflections at Facing Race
by Adrienne Maree Brown on November 14 2008, 10:42AM
This is Adrienne Maree Brown checking in as a live blogger for the Facing Race Conference. I’m at the first plenary, Post-Election Reflections: Examining Race in the Presidential Campaign. The speakers cover the range from writers to election organizers. Unfortunately,…
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by Adrienne Maree Brown on November 11 2008, 8:36AM
Obama did not tell us this, or lead us into it - he arrived in response to it, he exposed that we wanted to hear it. Tired of political platforms, which seem to only exist to be jumped off of into treacherous familiar waters, the small minority of the global population (all of whom are impacted by this election, many of whom are actually more directly impacted by the American election than American citizens are) that could vote in this election voted for the candidate whose message, energy, campaign strategy and belief system spoke to a deeper need, deeper than policy or race redemption.
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by Adrienne Maree Brown on November 6 2008, 12:52PM
Today I came home to find a “Yes on Prop 8″ sticker slapped onto the Barbara Lee campaign sign in front of my building. Prop 8 is the proposition to ban gay marriage that passed in California last night. The…
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Call to Action: Stay The Line!!
by Adrienne Maree Brown on November 4 2008, 12:25PM
Situation: There are tons of election issues happening and being documented across the country. (866 Our Vote had 30,000 calls before 1pm, and the various War Room listserve spaces we’re in are buzzing with reports.) The main issues are…
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