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This is a really good thread.

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happy Thursday the 20th

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Lemanjah by Brazilian artist Marcelo Jorge … Lemanjah is the Queen of the Sea

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As protests against injustice in legal system, discrimination, police brutality spread through the US, it is necessary to educate yourself about these issues. 

Here are just a few book recommendations (there are so much more out there), include both non-fiction and fiction about racism and challenges that black people face throughout their lifetimes. 

Thank you so much for more recs. Below are some more amazing book recommendations from the comments:

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates

Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated by Richard Rothstein

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Policing the Black Man by Angela Davis

At The Hands of Persons Unknown by Philip Dray

Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

What Set Me Free by Bryan Banks 

Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary by Juan Williams 

Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas 

Beloved by Toni Morrison 

The short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace By Jeff Hobbs

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin 

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

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Absolute shenanigans

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Johanna Puhl on Instagram

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one day hozier is gonna cover hallelujah and by god it’ll kill me but what a way to go

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haku x

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“Your Black Friend" animated short film by Ben Passmore, Alex Krokus & Krystal Downs

truly accurate.

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Hey, I could use some help.

The past several months have been pretty godawful and terrible for everyone, and they’ve especially fucked up my situation.  Back in November of 2016 I was mugged and shot, and the aftermath of that has left me pretty emotionally shattered and suffering from severe depression making it extremely difficult to work.  I am in the midst of applying for disability benefits, but the pandemic caused my hearing date for my second stage appeal to be postponed from May all the way into August.  And all my backup resources ran out in May, so now I am facing down a couple of really scary months.

Right now I am not doing super great. The increased isolation from social distancing, a couple of sudden and devastating personal losses this past month, in addition to all the… everything else happening in the world, I’ve been left kinda… it’s difficult to function. It’s hard for me to even get out of bed in the afternoon, and essential tasks that need to be done take me… sometimes days to get around to. It’s taken me a week to build up the nerve to even make this post, and two weeks to simply sign a piece of paper that says “Yes I will be availible and present at the time of my Disability Hearing”. I am on meds, and I do have a psyciatrist and a therapist I see regularly (though granted it’s been over the phone the past couple of months) so I do have some support in that capacity, but right now it just seems enough to keep me drifitng.

Right now I am facing down a hefty power bill, with rent coming up in a week. I’ve applied for some additional government support, but government moves slow and the nightmare system we live in doesn’t give a fuck if you’re working on it and will cut you off from basic human rights in a heartbeat.

I absolutely hate having to do this, as I’m sure everyone who has to write up one of these posts hates doing it, but, any support you are willing to give would be very greatly appreciated.

https://www.paypal.me/itmightbemikey

Cash App: $mightbemikey

Thanks and ❤️, — Mikey

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