#rekia boyd

[bossymarmalade]

Installation view of Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar at the Chicago Cultural Center

The exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center opens with the installation “Homegoing.” The work is a suspended image depicting a screenshot from Ma’Khia Bryant’s personal TikTok. In the photo she’s laying her edges, her jet-black hair shining, her baby face clean and free of makeup. Below the printed photo is a collection of candles, stuffed animals, and a bouquet. On April 20, 2021, Ma’Khia was killed by an Ohio police officer in what was later determined a justifiable homicide. She was 16 years old. 

In the gallery titled Rest and Recess: The Courtyard, the exhibition transports the viewer to the Caribbean where Black girls play together unburdened and hopeful. A tree, sculpted by Robert Narciso and made from branches from Rekia Boyd’s family home, sits in the center of the room casting a protective shadow over everything. From its branches hang yellow paper hearts scribed with the hopes and dreams of little Black girls. The sound of their joyful cacophony activates the space.

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[songsofprotestpeacerevolution]

Ani Cordero - "Me Tumba" [I'm Devastated]

This Video is Dedicated To: Este video esta dedicado a:

Sandra Bland, John Crawford, Walter Scott, David Collie, Joseph Mann Terrence Crutcher, Sam Dubose, Sureshbhai Patel, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Sean Bell,  Rodney King, Ramarley Graham, Trayvon Martin, Emmett Till, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Rekia Boyd, Corey Jones

...Y un sinnúmero de personas conocidas y desconocidas ... And to all the countless lives, both known and unknown

¡Tome Acción!  Take Action! BlackLivesMatter.com

(Translation to English on video & description) 

[chalkrevelations]

LP IV

Ludi Plebeii Day 3, and this is the point when Piety Fortnight begins to rely heavily on the piety and also when I am exceedingly grateful for the change BACK to Standard Time from Daylight Savings, conveniently timed for this ritual series, as it vaguely still fools my body into thinking I’m getting up later than I actually am. Getting up early on the days I work is getting up EARLY.

So, quick hit, because I have to get to bed if I’m going to get up before work and do this again tomorrow. We’re still sliding things around to target the American Triad and Fortuna America for Election Day tomorrow, so I focused today on another ancestor cohort, the Caedis Patriae, the civic martyrs, the country’s slain, some of them war dead, but most of them a memory of some of the worst of our country’s history: the Trail of Tears; Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1871; the Red Summer of 1919; The Tree of Life Synagogue and Pulse Nightclub and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School; the auction block and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, the Thibodaux cane plantations and Upper Big Branch Mine, U.S. Radium and Deepwater Horizon; four little girls killed in   Birmingham and three Freedom Summer workers killed in Mississippi and six children dead in ICE custody; four students killed at Kent State and two at Jackson State; doctors and clinic workers; Matthew Shepherd and Sakia Gunn; Brandon Teena and Kiesha Jenkins; Amadou Diallo and Oscar Grant and Sean Bell and Jonathan Ferrell and Tamir Rice and Natasha McKenna and Freddie Gray and Rekia Boyd and Sandra Bland and Kalief Browder and Eric Garner and Trayvon Martin and Philando Castile and Breonna Taylor and every year I add a few more names, and it just keeps  going. It can only ever be broadly representative, and last year I added the COVID Dead, and it’s just. A lot. We’ve used this litany in various other remembrance rituals over the years, and it’s built a lot of weight into it. But every now and then I’ll get small, odd things happening during these rituals, and today it was a very, very noticeable fragrance while I was doing the litany, like someone with perfume had passed by or stood for a bit at one side of the spiral I was walking, and it definitely was not the frankincense I was using for my ritual incense, and there was no one else (visible) out there with me at the time, so. It kind of felt like someone was helping me carry it.

For the omen, mannaz showing up again, for the needs this time, the need to find and know and understand the ways we’re woven into the networks that we’re a part of and how best to move within them, to build them and preserve them. Raidho for the blessings - the journey, not the destination, but harmonious movement toward a goal.

Dagaz for the shadow, for where we’re standing right now - dawn, a fresh start, the beginning of a new day.

Pictures are the omen on top or to the left, depending on how this shows up, and then bottom or to the rightt is a look at ritual before dawn, my friends.

[blaqsbi]

Post: #ProfessorBlackTruth #MoT #PBT #AntiBlackTerrorism #Police #Court...

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[woollydramaturgy]

Scene 1: The Book of Revelation

"Oscar Grant, Aiyana Jones, Trayvon Martin, Rekia Boyd, Jordan Davis, Sandra Bland, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, the Charleston Nine"

[wilmamankiller]

10 of 13 airbrush t-shirts and gold rings commemorating some of the many Black women lost to police brutality, from the series "Remember Us", 2017, by Azikiwe Mohammed.

Meagan Hockaday, Gabriella Nevarez, Rekia Boyd, Alexia Christian, Michelle Cusseaux, Mya Hall, Janisha Fonville, Natasha McKenna, Tyisha Miller, Aiyana Jones.

[ablackwomansurvivingrape]

Silence on Black Female Victims Weakens Fight Against Police Brutality

Acknowledging black female victims also demonstrates criminal profiling isn’t just happening to black men, and it isn’t only occurring during police stops. A recent African American Policy Forum report showed black girls who were late or absent from school ended up with criminal warrants. Black girls were also arrested for things like having a tantrum in school at age six.

Even as victims, black girls run the risk of incarceration — such was the case for an 11-year-old rape victim in D.C. Police failed to believe her despite corroborating evidence from the rape kit. Instead she was imprisoned for making a false report. These violations are motivated by the same brand of sexism and misogyny that keeps the brutality against black women and girls hidden in the fight for criminal justice reform.

Sexual violence in police custody is brought into high relief when black women are included. The alleged rape and sexual assault of at least 13 black women by former Oklahoma City Police Officer, Daniel Holtzclaw, serves as the most recent, heinous instance.

The politicized nature of protection also becomes visible, black women’s cases can explicitly show how the justice system fails to protect us at the same time that it egregiously condemns black women. Marissa Alexander‘s case is a recent example, but so, too, is the case of CeCe McDonald, 24. As an African-American trans woman, McDonald served 19 months in solitary in a male facility for fighting back against a racist, transphobic attack in Minneapolis in 2011.

These outcomes showcase a pattern of bias that is not localized to places like South Carolina, Alabama, and New York, but we need to get past the patriarchy and misogyny to put these nationwide systemic inequalities on display.

[chucksrus84]

Do #BlackLivesMatter only when Black men are murdered by police? I need an answer to this question and I need it now.

Did #BlackLivesMatter when Breonna Taylor (an emergency medical technician) was murdered while she slept, by three plainclothes police officers who executed a no-knock search warrant?

Did #BlackLivesMatter when Oluwatoyin Salau (a BLM activist) was assaulted, kidnapped and murdered by a 49 year Black man?

Did #BlackLivesMatter when Ashanti Carmon (a beautiful soul that was not listed in that tweet) was shot multiple times at Fairmont Heights?

When do our lives matter? Why is it that we are told to keep SILENT and not to trust the police or our own family members or even the men in our own community, because to do so would put them at jeopardy. Why are we taught to protect other people at OUR EXPENSE? What is wrong with that picture and why is another generation doing it AGAIN. 

So yes, I want an answer. Do Black women’s lives MATTER? Do we matter to YOU?  

[sprmint-bkgsoda]

[tiarrahill]

REOPEN REKIA BOYD'S CASE

[thesociologicalcinema]

At some point our country must meaningfully acknowledge that the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Sean Reed, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Erick Garner, Rekia Boyd, Tanisha Anderson, and countless others are not isolated incidents or "bad apples." It is systemic violence.

~ @AOC

[blaqsbi]

Post: ...

#ProfessorBlackTruth #MoT #PBT #AntiBlackTerrorism #Police #Court #Prosecutor #Judge #DistrictAttorney #Administration #StateAttorney #Susan #Lorincz #Andrew #Lester #Daniel #Penny #DeSantis #Yancarlos #Santiago #Jason #Raynor #WhiteSupremacy #WhitePrivilege #Hate#Crime #Lynching #Murder #Manslaughter #FirstDegreeMurder #Alvin #Bragg #Kathy #Hochul #Eric #Adams #Polictians #Biden #Crime #Bill #Clinton #Obama #Kamala #Kerry #George #Zimmerman #Merrick #Garland #Kristen #Clarke #DOJ #Aaron #Dean #Brian #Encinia #Dante #Servin #Joshua #Jaynes #Kelly #Hanna #Goodlett #Brett #Hankison #Kyle #Meany #WhiteMedia #Racism #Propaganda #Lies #Distortion #Hypocrisy #Benjamin #Crump #Lee #Merritt #AntiBlackRacism #PowerTools #SelfDefense #Reparations #NoReparationsNoVote #Tangibles #CutTheCheck #BlackGrassRoots #NewBlackMedia #Richard #Strickland #Othal #Ozone #Wallace #Ajike #AJ #Owens #Ralph #Yarl #Jordan #Neely #Alton #Maddox #Atatiana #Jefferson #Sandra #Bland #Rekia #Boyd #Breonna #Taylor #Kenneth #Walker https://www.blaqsbi.com/598C

[bonediggercharleston]

Remember Rekia Boyd

Murdered by off-duty Chicago cop Dante Sevin after he approached a bunch of black teenagers, complained about their noise, tried to buy drugs off of them to probably arrest them for possession, pulled a gun because according to him “Antonio Cross had a gun” which was just a cellphone.

He was charged with involuntary man-slaughter and got acquitted because he very much intended to kill, and judge directed the jury to acquit.

Sevin quit before he could be fired, securing a fat retirement package.

[silentauthor96]

John Irons, aka Man of Steel; Action Comics (1938-) #689

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Yesterday I started having an anxiety attack at the thought of my Black, 16 year old little brother riding his bike in our white suburban neighborhood, so these panels just seemed really timely to share.

Unnecessary force and violence against black people isn't new. The fact that it's wrong isn't news either.

Heroes save lives. Not end them.

[maxineshawsdaughter]

#Rekia Boyd 💜👑