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#JailBedDrop: Los Angeles’ Fight Against a Multibillion-Dollar Jail
This Christmas Eve, JusticeLA is “dropping” beds outside shopping centers across Los Angeles County—from Inglewood to Calabasas—to encourage a public conversation about the fight for abolition. We are demanding an end to mass incarceration in the U.S. and our county’s investment in policing and jails. JusticeLA was formed on Sept. 26, 2017; we are a…
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Black Lives Matter Kicks Off The Provocateurs Series at California African American Museum
Nina Simone once said that “an artist’s duty is to reflect the times.” “At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don’t think you can help but be involved,” Simone said. It makes sense, then, that the Black Lives Matter Global Network…
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JusticeLA Coalition: Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Black Lives Matter Co-Founder, Partners With Organizations to Halt Los Angeles Jail Expansion [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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All of Us or None: Historic Drug-Reform Gathering Centers Community and Healing [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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Finding the Power in Black Voices
This traumatic election year has brought America’s long-standing violence toward black people to the fore. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s explicit racism—and the thousands of people who want to give him the highest seat in the land—boldly underscores America’s investment in white supremacy and oppression. Things could get worse. But I also have to hope…
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Watch: Asha Bandele and Carl Hart Talk Marijuana Legalization, Drug Stigma and Racial Discrimination [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors Among Those Arrested During Peaceful Assembly at LAPD Headquarters
Updated Monday, Oct. 3, 10:30 p.m. EDT: Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Melina Abdullah and Niki Okuk have been released. Earlier: Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors; Melina Abdullah, a professor and chair of the Pan-African-studies department at California State University, Los Angeles; and Niki Okuk were arrested at the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters while peacefully assembling…