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In 2015, AAPF launched the #SayHerName campaign. #SayHerName calls attention to police violence against Black women and girls, and demands that their stories be integrated into calls for justice, policy responses to police violence, and media representations of police brutality.
We continue to lift up the names and stories of Black women and girls who are killed by police.
An Open Letter from the Mothers of #SayHerName to the Mother of Breonna Taylor:
Since the pandemic struck, we've been holding weekly #UnderTheBlacklight webinars to explore the intersectional vulnerabilities that COVID lays bare. In each episode, panelists from a range of backgrounds have joined us and helped us make sense of this moment.
On #UnderTheBlacklight, we've talked about racial disparities in COVID infections and deaths, the pandemic's devastating effect on incarcerated populations, and how this moment is being used to entrench white supremacy and global capitalism.
And we've continued to produce our podcast, Intersectionality Matters with Kimberle Crenshaw (@IMKC_podcast). The podcast is hosted by executive director @sandylocks, who is joined on each episode by artists, scholars, and activists.
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Tonight, we’ll be live tweeting from our second #HerDreamDeferred event! #SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence - An Advocacy-based Book Club.
If you're watching with us, follow along and use #HDD2024. And if you haven't registered, go to: bit.ly/HDD2024
In June of last year, #SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence co-authored by Professor KimberléCrenshaw and the African American Policy Forum was published.
#Juneteenth is an important holiday that commemorates the freedom of enslaved people in the US country. #FreedomToLearn
This year, Juneteenth arrives at a time when the knowledge of our ancestors and Black studies is under attack across the nation. #FreedomToLearn
As we celebrate our ancestors quest to liberation, we must also continue the fight by defending our #FreedomToLearn. Visit freedomtolearn.net for more info.
We start by wishing @KhalilGMuhammad a very happy happy birthday! 🥳🥳🥳
.@KhalilGMuhammad on the ugliness of the recent College Board revelations: "We have caught the @CollegeBoard in all the lies that they created from from day one in terms of when this controversy emerged." wsj.com/articles/colle…
How did we go from a racial reckoning to bans on Black studies? How did @CollegeBoard go from introducing an AP African American Studies (APAAS) course to appeasing authoritarians who seek to prevent the transmission of knowledge?
A thread. 🧵⬇️ 1/
August 2022: 60 high schools across the US offer a pilot course in APAAS, which @CollegeBoard began developing during the “racial reckoning” of 2020 as anti-racist protests swept the nation following the murder of George Floyd. 2/
September 2022: Flagship conservative magazine National Review publishes a screed denouncing APAAS as “leftist indoctrination,” arguing that Republicans in power should reject APAAS because the course “run[s] afoul of the new state laws barring CRT.” 3/
Under the repressive laws attacking teaching about race, "this kind of documentary can't be shown," says @sandylocks. "And I think it's important to recognize this and understand this." #TruthBeTold#TheNeutralGround
.@gocjhunt discussing the title of his film, The Neutral Ground. No, it's not about some mythical political neutrality. (Reviewers— that's a clear indicator you didn't watch the film!)