From Pam Spaulding: Is this what the police in Fort Worth, TX call “Stonewall Commemoration”? A gay club called the Rainbow Lounge opened in the city and Todd Camp, the founder of Q Cinema and former reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, was celebrating his birthday at the club and two Stonewall docs were being [...]
Fort Worth Police Turn Stonewall Commemoration into Re-enactment
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 29. Jun, 2009 in breaking news, civil rights, glbt, human rights, Weblogs
Mother Sues Florida School Board over Police Handcuffing of Her Kindergartner
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 07. Apr, 2009 in breaking news, children, civil rights, race and racism
You may remember the story of Ja’eisha Scott. It broke almost exactly four years ago. A Black kindergarten girl in Pinellas County, Florida had a tantrum in school. The school decided the best way to handle it was to call the police and request that the girl be charged and arrested. St. Petersburg Police officers [...]
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Folks I've got them hungry blues
And nothin' in this to lose
People tellin' me to choose
Between dyin' and lyin' and
keep on cryin'
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain't you heard the news
There's another thing to choose
A brand new world
clean and fine
Where nobody's hungry
And there's no color line
A thing like that's worth
anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
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