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#BreonnaTaylor died weeks before the #Minneapolis police killing of #GeorgeFloyd. The deaths helped ignite nationwide protests seeking greater police #accountability over the use of #ExcessiveForce against #Black people.

Dhillon’s memo says the #DOJ *respects* the jury’s verdict & that the conviction means Hankison will probably never be able to serve as a police officer or own a firearm. [unless of course #Trump pardons him]

`In her article ‘not all knights at the round table were white’, Eveleth (2014) discusses how knights of colour have been excluded from the more recent productions of King Arthur’s tales. In the tale of King Arthur, the 14-year-old Dutch Knight Sir Morien, one of six knights of colour, occupies a seat at King Arthur’s round table. The talk will shine a light on this story.`

museumofcambridge.org.uk/event

Image of wooden statue depicting Sir Morien
The Museum of Cambridge · Black History Lectures: Sir Morien The Black Knight at King Arthur’s TableJoin the Museum of Cambridge for a fascinating evening with Carol Brown-Leonardi. Carol, a researcher in the British Windrush generation and Caribbean Folklore, will share her research on topics of…

If you have a dime to spare, please throw some into my #mutualaid pot :')
Your girl is trying to make it to Playtopia in Dec and reconnect with my communities in the area. It's honestly not the most urgent of matters, but being a #black #transartist in Southern Africa, this is a really big opportunity for me. I get to enter the predominantly white #gamedev spaces and make my voice heard.

🪘Goal🪘 ($40/$700) to cover transport

ko-fi.com/imp3tuz/goal?g=0
#transmutualaidrequest #MutualAidRequest

NYT lies about Zohran #Mamdani shows how #racism is just a tool of white supremacy.

For brown people, you’re damned if you do and dammed if you don’t. You’re not white but apparently not #Black enough? Or grateful enough?

I can never explain the tightrope I walk as a white #Latino Two Spirit. I’m too white but not #white enough and am actually #indigenous in my core. And I’ve met countless people like me! I can never win in white supremacies eyes and neither can Zohran. And that’s the point!