Sandra Bland should be turning 30 years today. She was murdered a year and a half ago, and even though her name may not be trending anymore, she still matters and always will!
Gone too soon, but you will always be missed and won’t ever be forgotten. You’re forever in our hearts…
Happy birthday, Queen! May your soul rest in peace.
The Native American historian, author, educator, veteran, and war chief died on Sunday.
Joseph Medicine Crow, an acclaimed Native American historian and last surviving war chief of Montana’s Crow Tribe, died at age 102 on Sunday.
A member of the Crow Tribe’s Whistling Water clan, Medicine Crow was born in 1913 and raised by his grandparents in a log house on the Crow Reservation in Montana, the Associated Press reported.
His crow name was “High Bird,” and he grew up hearing stories of the Battle of Little Big Horn from his family members who were there.
His grandfather, Yellowtail, started to train Medicine Crow to be a warrior when he was only 6-years-old. The training involved grueling physical activity, such as running barefoot in the snow.
In 1939, Medicine Crow earned a master’s degree in anthropology from the University of Southern California, becoming the first member of his tribe to ever earn a master’s.
He became a Crow historian, collecting his nomadic tribe’s history through firsthand accounts before 1884, when Native Americans were made to live on reservations.
During World War II, Medicine Crow completed the four tasks needed to become a Crow War Chief, including stealing horses from the enemy and wrestling a weapon away from a Nazi.
“Warfare was our highest art, but Plains Indian warfare was not about killing. It was about intelligence, leadership, and honor,” Medicine Crow wrote in his 2006 book Counting Coup.
In 2009, President Obama bestowed upon Medicine Crow the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the country’s highest civilian honor.
We’re so immunised to deaths of Iraqi bodies, that suicide bomber killing young children in a football stadium doesn’t warrant global outrage. Boys from the ages of 10 to 16 were being presented trophies for their talents in the sport when IS killed them. Bear in mind the importance of football in Iraq, it holds the biggest form of unity to the people of Iraq, Sunni, Shi’a, Christian, none of it matters when it comes to football. IS strategically did this at a football tournament to show that nothing is safe. These were young children killed far too early.
It’s frightening the place that white bodies hold in times like this over brown bodies. As Teju Cole once called it, we’re ‘unmournable bodies’.
Chicago officer charged with murder for killing black 17-year-old Laquan McDonald
Chicago Police Department Officer Jason Van Dyke shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald no fewer than 16 times in the city’s Archer Heights neighborhood in October 2014. After over a year of paid leave he was charged with first-degree murder. Video of the incident is under court order to be released by Wednesday. McDonald’s family reached a large cash settlement with the city back in April.
its weird that mostly all vegetarians and vegans only wanna fight for animals but not the underpaid/overworked people that pick their $15 organic grapes from Whole Foods in the sweltering sun for 15 hours at a time
how come I only ever hear about these underpaid/overworked people when you all are trying to take potshots at vegans/vegetarians. Its Almost Like You Dont Actually Care About Them At All
….like who do you think works in slaughterhouses? Stop using poor people as talking points to feel good about eating meat when you don’t care about us.
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