NYCLU’s Testimony on the NYC Identification Card

Click here to read the NYCLU testimony before the New York City Council Committee on Immigration on the NYC Immigration Card, on April 30, 2014. Click here for more information.

Colorlines on SNL’s Leslie Jones’ Slave Rape Joke

Read Jamilah King’s analysis of Leslie Jones’ recent slave rape joke during SNL’s ‘weekend update’ section on Colorlines.com. The piece analyzes what happened and what Jones’ reaction was to the backlash. Check it out here.

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Questlove on Hip-Hop and Black America

Check our Vulture’s When the People Cheer: How Hip-Hop Failed Black America, Part one of a six part series of essays on HipHop’s past, present,and future. Click here for part one. Click here for part two, Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems: How Hip-Hop Failed Black America, Part II.

“When Hip-Hop doesn’t occupy an interesting place on the pop-culture terrain, when it is much of the terrain and loses interest even in itself, then what?”

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Streetwise and Safe Against Criminalized Possesion of Condoms

Join streetwise and safe’s fight to stop the criminalization of condom possession. The justice system uses condom possession to argue that they are engaged in prostitution related offenses. Click here to read more and sign the petition.

Marijuana Arrests.com

Check out Marijuana Arrests.com, a website dedicated to compiling the records about the devastating numbers of racially based marijuana arrests, drug policies and police practices in major cities like New York City. Click here for more information.