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Loving Day, June 12

Have you heard of Loving Day?  Every year, it is celebrated on June 12th.  

The “Loving” in Loving Day is actually the last name of Mildred and Richard Loving. The Loving Day Story begins when they were arrested for being married in 1958 because they were an interracial couple living in Virginia.

Their case, Loving v. Virginia (1967), reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Their lawyers argued that laws against interracial marriage came from slavery laws, intended to oppress Black people, and based on white supremacy. Other states had similar laws. Some of these laws applied to people of other races as well.

Nine years after their arrest, the Lovings won their case on June 12th, 1967 (which is why Loving Day is on June 12th). It was more than a victory for their family. It struck down all state laws against interracial marriage in the U.S.

The Lovings’ memorable story (and fitting name), are part of a larger and continuing struggle for racial justice. Courtroom history led up to their case. Attitudes and demographics shape our society. Explore more resources beyond those we provide.

People around the world observe Loving Day every year on June 12th in meaningful and personal ways. While all are welcome, it can be especially significant for interracial couples, multiracial families, mixed race and transracially adopted people, and those with similar lived experience.

Many share photos and stories on social media with #lovingday, which has trended three times (so far). Others bring people together through events for their community, friends, or family (virtually or safely during the COVID-19 pandemic).

You can also use Loving Day as inspiration for using your creativity, skills, or professional talents in a positive way. Like other important yearly observations, Loving Day can be an intentional time to stand in solidarity with communities that intersect with ours.

Some have petitioned their local government for official recognition of Loving Day. They have been successful in many cities, some counties, and a few U.S. states – and you could be, too.

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Indigenous Women Rising

Rachael Lorenzo (Mescalero Apache/Laguna Pueblo/Xicana) started Indigenous Women Rising in 2014 as a campaign to bring attention to the fact that indigenous women and people who rely on Indian Health Services for healthcare were being denied access to Plan B, a form of emergency contraception. This was a huge issue considering the disproportionately high rates of domestic violence and sexual assault on reservations and the limited capability of tribes to prosecute non-Native offenders.

After a few years of strategizing and learning, Rachael began to articulate real ways to intertwine political experiences with her desire to see equity in access to necessary healthcare, always thinking of her family and community members who rely on IHS for healthcare.  She also began to understand how art in all of its forms, research, policy, politics, and community organizing fit together to bring visibility to communities and families of color.

Now, Indigenous Women Rising creates the space for us as indigenous people to tell our own stories on our terms as an act of resistance, self love, and love for our ancestors and family.  We reclaim what colonialism and white supremacy have tried to strip from us: identity, culture, tradition, and language.

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Who Killed Vincent Chin? (52 minutes)

On a hot summer night in Detroit in 1982, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed Vincent Chin, a young Chinese American draftsman with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail. This gripping Academy Award-nominated film relentlessly probes the implications of the murder, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system. Who Killed Vincent Chin?, a legacy title from POV’s archives, was recently restored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and also added to the National Film Registry. Best Documentary Nominee, 61st Annual Academy Awards. A co-presentation with Detroit Public Television and the Center for Asian American Media.

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Upsolve

Millions of families use Upsolve’s education, tools, and online community to overcome their debt, access their rights, and rebuild their financial situation.

Chapter 7 bankruptcy is a common legal process to clear your debt, but it’s not right for everyone. Let’s take a look at some bankruptcy basics to help you learn about it and decide whether it's right for you.

Chapter 7 bankruptcy is a powerful debt relief tool for American consumers and businesses alike. If your case is simple, you may not need a lawyer to file. Here's a 10-Step Guide on how to prepare for and get a fresh start in the form of a bankruptcy discharge.

Transparency is one of our nonprofit’s core values. That’s why it’s important to us that you know how Upsolve stays free, how we spend our money, and who owns Upsolve.

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Why isn’t Puerto Rico a state? 

Puerto Rico has been a United States territory for more than 120 years. Why hasn't the U.S. made it a state?  Watch this 12 minute video to learn more behind the history and the politics.

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Disabled Black Lives Matter- ALLFIE.org

ALLFIE’s campaign to address racial and intersectional inequality of Black Disabled people, in solidarity with Black Lives Matter movement.

We are actively campaigning to address racial and intersectional inequality of Black Disabled people within ALLFIE’s work and to encourage other DPOs/movements to achieve the common aim for race and intersectional equality.

ALLFIE’s campaign stands in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter movement to condemn all forms of violence, abuse, injustice and demand everyone has a right to be respected and free from discrimination.

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19 Youth Climate Activists You Should Be Following on Social Media (EarthDay.org)

Around the world, young people are mobilizing by the hundreds of thousands to demand greater action on climate change. Driven by the understanding that the action that leaders take — or do not take — in the next decade will determine life and livelihoods for generations to come, these young people are striking from school and taking to the streets for a transformational change for people, planet and our shared prosperity.

More than a million young people have turned out for global student strikes that are also driving home the connections between climate change and social injustice, economic inequality and human rights. Young climate leaders around the world are rising to the challenge, seizing the opportunity of these strikes to raise their voices in a collective call for greater ambition in defense of the vulnerable and at-risk communities most impacted by unchecked climate change.

Unimpressed with political soundbites and platitudes, these young people are refusing to settle for anything less than transformational change, informed by recent scientific reports that find that we have just over a decade to halve our global greenhouse gas emissions.

Feeling inspired? Us too — Here are some of the top young climate activists you should be following on social media...

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Profiles in Fatness

Women have always made up around 50% of the population, but only occupy approximately 0.5% of recorded history, add fatphobia into the mix and that figure drops off a cliff. But not anymore. Join comedian and writer Desiree Burch as she flips the script and takes us on a glitter-dusted celebration of the amazing fat HEROES that are so often skimmed over or airbrushed out of history.

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PsychoHairapy with Dr. Afiya

Hair is not just about style, it is also about making hair statements. Join Dr. Afiya, your favorite hair psychologist, as she interviews guests who are involved in the world of hair care or offer a unique perspective about hair. If you love your hair, want to learn about the latest findings in hair research, or just want to hear some deep cultural conversations, this is the podcast for you.

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Keep Our Clinics

Independent providers serve three out of every five people who have an abortion, yet they receive only a fraction of public support.

The majority of clinics providing care after the first trimester are independent — and independent clinics are more likely to provide both medication and in-clinic (sometimes called surgical) care, so patients can choose the care that’s right for them.

Independent abortion clinics are often located in small towns, rural areas, and politically hostile states, and may be the only abortion providers in their state or region. Anti-abortion politicians and extremists across the country are outspoken against abortion, creating an environment of fear and secrecy; they have even resorted to violence against abortion providers and the people who seek their services.

One of the goals of abortion restrictions and bans — including the near-total abortion ban in Texas and the 15-week ban in Mississippi — is to close clinics down, so that even if these unlawful bans are finally struck down, there may be no clinics left to provide abortion care. Once a clinic closes, it is nearly impossible to reopen. Your gift to the Keep Our Clinics campaign is how we prevent that from happening.

Abortion providers, independent clinics, and their advocates constantly defend reproductive rights in the courts and in communities to ensure that services are legally, financially, and logistically available to people who need them. Independent clinics do all this while also showing up day after day to care for people in their communities.

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 A Guide to Plug Into Community Mutual Aid Efforts

In times of crisis, one of the questions on your mind might be ‘how can I help?’ Meaning both ‘how can I do my best to support my community,’ and ‘how can I as an individual make an impact?’ Like many, you might be feeling overwhelmed and underprepared to deal with this crisis. That’s okay, take a deep breath and remember you are not alone and you are not powerless. One very useful way in which we can organize during a crisis is through mutual aid. 

Mutual Aid is when we support each other directly because we recognize that the well-being, health and dignity of all are connected. It means that we understand that our survival depends on cooperation, not competition. In this way we can challenge political conditions directly by improving the lives of those around us.

Mutual Aid is not a new idea. Because the state, and in particular the healthcare system, has historically and systematically failed to meet the needs of the disabled community, we specifically want to uplift disability justice movements for already championing mutual aid in our communities and for being at the forefront of defying state negligence towards our public health.

Use this guide to help you plug into mutual aid work happening nearby or take initiative and build out new types of mutual aid in your community.

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Browndages

Browndages came to be in 2018 when Intisar Mahdi and her husband, Rashid, were inspired to provide a better experience for their family and others. Creating their own company came to mind when they realized the bandages they were using did not match the color of their skin. x

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How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race- NPR Life Kit (10 mins)

Most people have heard about "the talk" — the conversation many African American parents have with their kids about how to avoid altercations with police or what to do and say if they're stopped.

The recent unrest sparked by anger over police brutality against African Americans has parents who aren't black thinking more about how they talk to their kids about race.

Michel Martin, weekend host of All Things Considered, spoke with Jennifer Harvey, author of Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America.

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Undocumented Worker Fund

The Undocumented Worker Fund was created in March 2020 by undocumented immigrants with the aim of supporting our own community in this difficult time. Undocumented immigrants are particularly at risk during the coronavirus pandemic. Because we don’t have access to basic necessities like health insurance, unemployment, and federal emergency aid, millions of immigrant families struggling to pay their bills and stay safe.

We believe everyone deserves protection and support during a deadly pandemic. We are committed to redistributing financial resources to undocumented workers and families across the country who have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings on Bayard Rustin, Edited by Devon W. Carbado & Donald Wise

In 1956 Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. strategies of nonviolence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, thereby launching the civil rights movement. Widely acclaimed as a founding father of modern black protest, Rustin reached international notoriety in 1963 as the openly gay organizer of the March on Washington.

Long before the March on Washington, Rustin's leadership placed him at the vanguard of social protest. His gay identity, however, became a point of contention with the movement, with the controversy embroiling even King himself.

Time on Two Crosses offers an insider's view of many of the defining political moments of our time. From Gandhi's impact on African Americans, white supremacists in Congress, and the assassination of Malcolm X to Rustin's never-before-published essays on Louis Farrakhan, affirmative action, and the call for gay rights, Time on Two Crosses chronicles five decades of Rustin's commitment to justice and equality.

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The Movement for Black Lives

The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) formed in December of 2014, was created as a space for Black organizations across the country to debate and discuss the current political conditions, develop shared assessments of what political interventions were necessary in order to achieve key policy, cultural and political wins, convene organizational leadership in order to debate and co-create a shared movement wide strategy. Under the fundamental idea that we can achieve more together than we can separately.

We believe that prisons, police and all other institutions that inflict violence on Black people must be abolished and replaced by institutions that value and affirm the flourishing of Black lives.

We believe in centering the experiences and leadership of the most marginalized Black people, including but not limited to those who are trans and queer, women and femmes, currently and formerly incarcerated, immigrants, disabled, working class, and poor.

We believe in transformation and a radical realignment of power: The current systems we live inside of need to be radically transformed, which includes a realignment of global power. We are creating a proactive, movement-based vision instead of a reactionary one.

We draw from political lessons, grow in our leadership, and expanding our base to build a stronger movement.

We believe and understand that Black people will never achieve liberation under the current global racialized capitalist system.

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Intersectional Insights Podcast

Olivia and Raven are black, blind women, passionate about shedding light on issues regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. Get political and personal with them as they share their perspectives on living at the intersection of disabled, black, and women in the US.