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Design practices too often support systems of oppression, but we can change that
Take Action: A List of Ways You Can Stand In Solidarity with the Black Community
We’ve compiled an ongoing list of ways you can help as we collectively fight against systemic racism and violence.
Illustration by Enne Goldstein
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If you’re surprised by how the police are acting, you don’t understand US history
Policing in America was never created to protect and serve the masses. It can’t be reformed because it is designed for violence
Netflix: 'The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson'
Ways You Can Support the Black LGBTQ+ Community
This year, the beginning of Pride Month has seen much of the country deep in protests around the country demanding justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless other victims of racist police violence. But Pride and racial justice aren’t mutually exclusive: the first Pride was the Stonewall Riots in New York in 1969 led by black and brown transgender women like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera against the backdrop of the civil-rights movement. Without this uprising, the fight for LGBTQ+ liberation may not have ignited.
Demand Racial Data on Coronavirus
We are losing our friends, family, and neighbors at unprecedented and disproportionate rates as COVID-19 tears through our communities.
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Flint Water Crisis
On April 25, 2014, officials looking to save money switched Flint, Michigan’s drinking water supply from the Detroit city system to the Flint River. This new water was highly corrosive. Because city and state officials broke federal law by failing to treat the water properly, lead leached out from aging pipes into thousands of homes.
Brittany Greeson
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Criminal Justice reform
The Innocence Project's mission is to free the staggering number of innocent people who remain incarcerated, and to bring reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment.
Families of missing black Americans fight for media, police to focus on their loved ones' cases
Missing black Americans are over-represented in the total number of missing people in the U.S. Despite making up only 13% of the total U.S. population, more than 30% of all missing persons were black in 2018, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.Only about one-fifth of these cases are covered by the news, according to an analysis published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.