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BlackSpring in Baton Rouge

BlackSpring in Baton Rouge

 BlackSpring Baton Rouge

It is BlackSpring Baton Rouge! Many events have taken place and the movement is going strong.  Our members and original founders have continued to work in the Baton Rouge community to raise awareness on a variety of issues.

This Saturday The Blackout: A Celebration of Being is hosting an event in Downtown Baton Rouge which will be a Baton Rouge-Baltimore Solidarity March

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3/25 Dogwood Alliance Press Conference

You are invited to take part in the Dogwood Alliance’s press conference to call on Europe to stop driving destruction of our forests, and to demand that Louisiana stop subsidizing this destructive industry. Our forests aren’t fuel!

Right now, Southern forests are being clear-cut, trucked to facilities, turned into wood pellets, sent across the ocean to Europe, and burned under the guise of…

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Today in Black History

Founded on March 5, 1897 in Washington, D.C. by 78-year-old Reverend Alexander Crummell, the American Negro Academy (ANA) was an organization of black intellectuals who through their scholarship and writing were dedicated to the promotion of higher education, arts, and science for African Americans as part of the overall struggle for racial equality. The American Negro Academy brought together persons of African ancestry from around the world and was the first society of blacks that would specifically promote the “Talented Tenth” ideas later articulated by founding member W.E.B. DuBois. An all-male organization, the ANA consisted of those with backgrounds in law, medicine, literature, religion, and community activism.  Their collective goal, however, was to “lead and protect their people” and to be a “weapon to secure equality and destroy racism.” 

American Negro Academy members produced a number of published works discussing and analyzing the African American experience and the issue of racism. They included Disenfranchisement of The Negro, written by J.L. Lowe, Comparative Study of The Negro Problem, by Charles C. Cook, and William Pickens’s The Status of the Free Negro from 1860-1970. 

Although the American Negro Academy waned during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, it experienced a rebirth of its own over forty years later as various musicians, poets, historians, and other artists again gathered to carry out the original goals of the ANA.  These scholars and artists organized meetings that led to the creation of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters (BAAL), which was established to continue the ANA’s mission. A non-profit organization, the Black Academy of Arts and Letters was chartered in New York City, New York in 1969. 

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Supporters will deliver the petition to the Coroner's office in New Iberia, LA, at 11:00 am, on March 2. Feb 28, 2015 — March 2, 2015, marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Victor White III, who died of a gunshot wound while in police custody in Iberia Parish.

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Make sure to participate in #BlackoutWednesdays #BLACKOUT #Wednesday #StudentsofColor #POC #POCatLSU #BlackatLSU #SnapLSU #LSU #LSU15#LSU16 #LSU17 #LSU18 #LSU19

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OurThreeWinners

Rest in power #OurThreeWinners, we will continue your legacy of service, and carry your memory in our hearts.

Collective Pain Towards a Collective Future by J. Coco

“We cannot be selective activist anymore,” the words of both Majdal Ismail and Blair Brown spoke so much truth to the fact that we’re all in this fight together. Instead of only standing up for causes with which we are able to directly identify, we must realize that we possess the same humanity as those facing injustice locally, nationally,…

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Recap: Suspect Vague. The Suspect: Vague protest took place on Thursday, February 5, 2015 on LSU's campus. Recap: Suspect Vague The Suspect: Vague protest took place on Thursday, February 5, 2015 on LSU's campus.

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Join us in this effort to bring light to the harm of islamophobia and the importance of tolerance. ‪#‎OurThreeWinners‬ ‪#‎TakeOnHate‬ ‪#‎EndTheHate‬ ‪#‎DeahYusorRazan‬ ‪#‎ChapelHill‬ #Lsu #snapLSU #BatonRouge #BROrganizing

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Suspect Vague

Join us for Suspect Vagu @ 2:30 @ the LSU Quad #SuspectVague

Suspect Vague, 2:30 @ the LSU Quad #SuspectVague

On Friday, January 30th at 6:38 PM, a text was sent out to the LSU community notifying them of an armed robbery in the Kirby Smith Hall parking lot. The suspect in the crime was identified simply as “black male wearing dark hoodie”. This vague description provokes suspicions of all black males on campus in hoodies, labeling them as suspects and…

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Coverage by @thedailyreveille on the #HandsUpWalkout protest at #LSU. #FergusonBR

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CHRIS BARRETT AT LSU #Act4Justice #LSU #GeauxTigers #EndHate

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Protesting with colleagues at LSU against “The Response,” a Bobby Jindal/American Family Association event recognized as promoting hate to racial, gender and sexual minorities.

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Protesters outside the PMAC Saturday for The Response. #snaplsu #lsu #theresponse #responsela

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Act4Justice in Baton Rouge

Act4Justice in Baton Rouge

Day of Action, Intersectional Coalitions, and Big Dreams by J. Coco

“Hey hey, ho ho, the AFA has got to go,” still rings in my head as I unwind after a day full of camaraderie, lots of walking, and nothing but love. Never before have I been to a protest full of so many like-minded individuals all gathered to fight against a common enemy, hate speech and bigotry. From the ground up, the day was in…

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Mike Brown tribute at Louisiana State University.

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Part 2: Restoring the Community

Part 2: Help Restore the Baton Rouge Community! Volunteer with us: Sat. Jan. 31 @ 10:00 am | 538 South Blvd. Baton Rouge, LA, 70802 #geauxserve

We had a great turnout at the Baton Rouge African American Museum on Wednesday! The curator and founder of the museum, Ms. Sadie Roberts-Joseph, was very excited to see the community come out and support.

Part 2: Restoring the Community: https://www.facebook.com/events/440376286109695/

  Part 2: Restoring the Community

Saturday, January 31 @ 10:00 am

538 South Boulevard

Baton Rouge, LA, 70802

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Today I was able to participate in a protest at LSU against Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and the American Family Association, who came to our campus to spread their ideas that non-straight and non-christian people are responsible for some of the greatest disasters in our time, including Hurricane Katrina, which still is a sore point here in Louisiana. I believe that we all should believe in something, whether that’s believing in a god, in people, in nature, or in yourself. However, when those beliefs promote intolerance of others, something needs to be said. I’ve never really been much of an activist, but I’m not going to stand by and let people spread hate at my university. As for me, I believe we should all be equal—whether straight, gay, transgender, white, black, purple, Christian, Muslim, Atheist, man, woman, etc. I’m glad I could be at least a small part of this movement and I can’t wait to see the day where Louisiana and the rest of the country finally accept and celebrate everyone’s differences.