What Karma Really Means
View this post on Instagram Everything is in your hands. A post shared by Tom Bilyeu (@tombilyeu) on May 21, 2019 at 11:26am PDT Continue reading What Karma Really Means
View this post on Instagram Everything is in your hands. A post shared by Tom Bilyeu (@tombilyeu) on May 21, 2019 at 11:26am PDT Continue reading What Karma Really Means
Here is a brief clip of the fire that was Malcolm X. So full of life. View this post on Instagram Malcolm. Always in your footsteps. Always with your courage. Always upholding your vision for ethics, empowerment, and enlightenment. From one fellow child of a Grenadian mother to another, we continue your legacy in earnestness. Happy Birthday 🙏🏽❤️ A post shared by amandaseales (@amandaseales) on … Continue reading Malcolm X Day
(WASHINGTON) – Rashema Melson is no stranger to adversity. The 23-year-old, who had lived for three years in a Washington, D.C. shelter, made headlines as the valedictorian of Anacostia High School’s Class of 2014 with a full scholarship to Georgetown University. On Saturday, Melson graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in justice and peace studies — the first person in her family to graduate … Continue reading Former homeless student overcomes extraordinary odds to graduate from Georgetown University | WTOP
Black residents in the District are disproportionately arrested for minor violations, despite making up less than half of the population, according to a study by two watchdog groups. Black people make up 47% of D.C.’s population but accounted for 86% of all arrests in the District — ten times the arrest rate of white residents, according to a study by D.C.’s ACLU office and the … Continue reading DC police disproportionately target black people for minor violations: study | WTOP
“Today it’s becoming more clear that disparities have more to do with racism than race, says Neel Shah, an OB-GYN and a professor at Harvard Medical School. For a long time there was “this baked-in assumption” that there was something different genetically among black women leading to their higher rates of maternal mortality, he says. But “genetically we are all the same,” he says, and … Continue reading
” That’s what happened to the ACLU’s Norristown plaintiff, Lakisha Briggs, who says her landlord didn’t want to evict her, but told her that he had no choice—the city would fine him $1,000 a day if she stayed. Briggs told NPR that she didn’t even make the final 911 call that put her on the street. She’d been determined not to call again, knowing that … Continue reading The ACLU is suing a city where calling 911 could get you evicted – Business Insider
This is a worldwide problem and we got a long way to go. *This* is why its going to take all of us. ” Nusrat Jahan Rafi’s last words to her brother were an act of defiance. “The teacher touched me. I will fight this crime till my last breath,” she said to her brother as they rode in an ambulance to a local hospital … Continue reading Protests Erupt In Bangladesh After Young Woman Burned Alive For Reporting Sexual Harassment From Her Principal | BLAVITY
“The activist’s paradox: To answer the call to act to relieve human suffering without drowning in the suffering” -Ram Dass https://citizenactionmonitor.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/the-activists-paradox-to-answer-the-call-to-act-to-relieve-human-suffering-without-drowning-in-the-suffering/ Continue reading