By Ricky Riley Sept 17 th 2016
In a Sept. 16 interview with Global Grind, director and actor Nate Parker says that the story of Nat Turner is bigger than his past rape scandal.
Parker’s 1999 rape case has dominated the press for his upcoming Oscar contending film, “The Birth of A Nation” press.
The then 18-year-old Penn State University wrestler was acquitted in the rape of an allegedly unconscious woman.
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“Proof of Consciousness” (P.O.C) the Host of REVIVE!!! 3/29/2017
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Korrima Horton: Korrima Horton a native of Philadelphia. She attended Lincoln University for both her graduate and undergrad degree. She has an undergrad degree in human service with a minor in psychology a masters in human services and delivery. She hopes to start at Temple University in the fall to peruse her PHD in Public Health. Over the past 15 years she has been working with children and families. She is very big on community service and giving back. She recently started her own non-profit to help assist families in need, and her focus is families that have loved ones incarcerated.
Dyymond Whipper-Young: Dyymond Whipper-Young is a visual artist. She specializes in fine arts, which includes painting, drawing and sculpting. She is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. She is a current student at Temple University. She is very involved with many of Temple University school organizations including Black Student Union, the community outreach organization H.A.N.D.S and the Black and Brown Coalition. Dyymond has partnered with organization such as Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, the NAACP, Guardian Civic League, National Urban League and the Overcame Foundation. Her work has been presented at several shows in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Miami and New York. She is very involved in cultivating the youth of Philadelphia. Dyymond has also leaded several after school art programs and was also featured on a several career panel geared toward the inner city youth.
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This Damning Chart Shows How Much of a Head Start White Families Have Over Black Families
The yawning wealth gap between black and white families is one of the starkest legacies of America’s history of racist social policymaking. As far as simple statistical comparisons go, I can’t recall any representations of it as striking as this chart from a recent report by the left-wing think tank Demos and the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University. As it shows, the median white household headed by a high-school dropout is wealthier today than the median black household headed by someone who went to college. The latter category includes those who at least attended a two- or four-year college, but not graduate degree holders.
That’s how much of a head start white Americans have. The median black American who pursues higher education is still poorer, judged by net worth, than a white person who never finished 12th grade.
I’m guessing that this stat is driven partly by debt—net worth measures a household’s assets minus its liabilities, and black students tend to borrow heavily to attend college. Nonetheless, it’s part of a larger pattern that Demos and IASP identify in which black families tend to have a net worth that’s lower, or roughly equal to, white families who have made what a lot of people might consider worse life decisions. Two-parent black families have a lower median net worth than white single parents ($16,000 vs. $35,800); black Americans younger than 55 who work full time have an only slightly higher median net worth than whites who work part time ($10,800 vs. $9,200). They also note research showing that black families tend to spend less than whites in similar income brackets, so thrift doesn’t appear to be the issue.What accounts for these differences then? One major factor is that middle-class white families have been able to accumulate some wealth over generations, whereas black families have been less able to do so thanks to policies like redlining that prevented them from buying homes and building equity. (This, as you might remember, was the crux Ta-Nehisi Coates’ case for reparations.)
“Many popular explanations for racial economic inequality overlook these deep roots, asserting that wealth disparities must be solely the result of individual life choices and personal achievements,” the authors write. “The misconception that personal responsibility accounts for the racial wealth gap is an obstacle to the policies that could effectively address racial disparities.”
In other words, people need to understand that even when black families make the “right” choices, they still end up behind.
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Documentary Shames Tobacco Industry For Targeting The Black Community
A decades-long campaign to hook African Americans on menthols has unfortunately worked like a charm.
The tobacco industry’s scheme to get Black people addicted to menthol cigarettes was highlighted in “Black Lives/Black Lungs,” a new documentary about the dangers of the flavored smokes, the Spokane Spokesman reported. Nine out of 10 Black smokers prefer menthol cigarettes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Filmmaker Lincoln Mondy , 23, examined the menthol cigarette advertising blitz that began since the 1950s. As a bi-racial child, Mondy said he noticed his White relatives tended to smoke non-menthol cigarettes and used chewing tobacco. On the other side of the family, his Black relatives used menthol cigarettes exclusively.
The tobacco industry’s strategy included giving money to Black politicians, scholarships to African-American students and support for Black cultural events, Mondy’s film also revealed.
The consequences have been devastating. African-Americans die from diseases related to tobacco use at a higher rate than Whites, even though Blacks smoke fewer cigarettes and start smoking at an older age than White people do, according to the CDC.
Cigarette makers are not the only industry under fire for targeting the Black community. Earlier this year, two pastors from the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court against Coca-Cola and the American Beverage Association, CBS News reported.
According to the ministers, the soda industry shares a huge part of the responsibility for the diabetes epidemic that has swept through minority communities because the industry targets African-Americans and Hispanics.
READ MORE AT: https://newsone.com/3757661/smoking-race-menthol-cigarettes-documentary-black-lives-lungs
