From Cosmopolitan -
The Best Books by Black Authors to Add to Your Bookshelf Right Now
Not an anti-racist reading list.
by PAULINA JAYNE ISAAC
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/books/g33625689/best-books-black-authors/
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Meals Served With Love, No Prices
From Black Enterprise -
BLACK-OWNED FAMILY-STYLE RESTAURANT IN ALABAMA HAS NO PRICES AND FEEDS ANYONE WHO IS HUNGRY
by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors
The founders of Drexell & Honeybee’s, a Black-owned family-style restaurant in Brewton, Alabama, are gaining national attention because they serve meals with no prices. The donation-only restaurant does not use cash registers and also feeds everyone – including those who don’t have anything to pay.
Every lunchtime from Tuesday to Thursday, husband and wife team, Freddie and Lisa Thomas-McMillan, are busy serving hungry people with soul food and Southern dishes from their daily-changing menu such as fried chicken, cornbread, and collard greens.
Everyone who comes to the restaurant doesn’t have to worry about the payment because they can leave a handful of coins, a generous donation, or even just a thank-you note. The owners then use 100% of the donations for the operational costs of feeding the hungry so they don’t really profit from it.
Still, the McMillans continue serving people from all walks of life in exchange of the joy that they get from all of it. They say there’s real joy whenever people leave their restaurant “with a full stomach, a full heart, and the understanding that you are loved and worthy of love.”
https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-owned-family-style-restaurant-in-alabama-has-no-prices-and-feeds-anyone-who-is-hungry/
Pharrell Williams - Entrepreneur (Official Video) ft. JAY-Z
Stick with this. It has a POWERFUL MESSAGE!
Club Cardinal - Launch Video
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/stanford-university-students-flock-to-virtual-campus-180975675/
BLM Poster Not Welcome Here
An excerpt from Upworthy -
Texas teacher placed on leave after parents complained about her virtual 'Black Lives Matter' poster
By Tod Perry
Via Change.org
Taylor Lifka, a 25-year-old English teacher at Roma High School in Roma, Texas, wanted to create an inclusive environment for her online classes this school year.
So she created a virtual background with posters that read: "Black Lives Matter," "Amiga, tu lucha es mi lucha," (Your struggle is my struggle) and "Diverse, Inclusive, Accepting, Welcoming, Safe Space for Everyone" in rainbow colors.
Before the first day of school, she asked her incoming students to put their names and preferred pronouns in the chat box on the digital chalkboard. Then, she posted a screenshot of her classroom on her social media.
Some parents complained about the inclusive posters to the principal.
"My assistant principal told me, 'Please take the posters down.' I guess once that happened, I knew that it might be a rocky road, but considering being put on leave? I never really thought that that was going to be their first step," Lifka told The Texas Tribune.
https://www.upworthy.com/texas-teacher-placed-leave-after-parents-complained-about-her-black-lives-matter-poster
Comply or Die
"Comply or die. That is the only thing we're able to tell our young Black sons."@MariaTaylor shared what her father, who was in the FBI, told her brother about interacting with police. pic.twitter.com/VDJukqNSWr
— ESPN (@espn) August 28, 2020
Thursday, August 27, 2020
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Thursday, August 6, 2020
I just got pulled over and for the first time i watched a white women record my whole traffic stop . pic.twitter.com/BolkS8K9rj
— The Mad King (@Kingkeraun) August 3, 2020
White Privilege Explained
What is white privilege?
— BBC Bitesize (@bbcbitesize) August 5, 2020
We asked @JohnAmaechi, psychologist, best-selling author and former NBA basketball player to explain it for us.
👉 https://t.co/t7LIENTnPn pic.twitter.com/mQrYX6Y0N1
Saturday, August 1, 2020
Our Marching Orders
From the New York Times -
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/john-lewis-civil-rights-america.html
Amazon's Ex-Wife Makes Big Donation to HBCUs
An excerpt from CNN -
These historically Black universities just got their biggest ever financial gifts all thanks to one generous donor
By Alicia Lee
(CNN)Four historically Black colleges and universities announced that they have each received the largest single donation in their long-standing history.
The generous donor?
MacKenzie Scott, formerly Bezos.
Howard University, Xavier University of Louisiana, Hampton University and Tuskegee University all announced on Tuesday that they had been gifted record donations.
Howard, which received $40 million, Hampton, $30 million, and Tuskegee, $20 million, revealed that their donations had come from Scott, the author and philanthropist who divorced from Amazon's Jeff Bezos last year.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/us/hbcus-largest-donation-history-mackenzie-scott-trnd/index.html
White Christians Mostly Silent
An excerpt from NPR -
American Christianity Must Reckon With Legacy Of White Supremacy, Author Says
Heard on Fresh Air with Terry Gross
In his new book, White Too Long, Jones examines the legacy of white supremacy among Southern Baptists and other Christian denominations.
Jones says the Southern Baptist Convention tends to focus on each individual's interior relationship with God — and "essentially screens out questions of social justice."
"I cannot remember a single sermon calling attention to racial inequality, racial injustice [or] the struggle for civil rights," he says.
As the U.S. begins to grapple more seriously with issues of racism and white supremacy, Jones says the time has come for churches to be more in vocal about social justice.
"There's so much work still to be done," he says. "White Christians have been largely silent ... and have hardly begun these conversations."
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/30/896712611/american-christianity-must-reckon-with-legacy-of-white-supremacy-author-says?ft=nprml&f=1001
Hate is Real
The man in this video who dealt with all the hate is @robblissgr https://t.co/8kx4fmhCgO
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) July 30, 2020
Peanut Butter & Jelly Pie
From Bon Appetit -
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/salted-pbandj-ice-cream-pie
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