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Civil Rights Panel Highlights Widespread Discrimination Against Black Families in New York’s Child Welfare System

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"A prominent civil rights committee has released a first-of-its-kind report describing persistent discriminatory treatment of Black families in New York state’s child welfare system. It calls for the president and Congress to recognize “a new paradigm of child welfare,” one that emphasizes family preservation over “reporting, investigating, surveillance, and family separation.”

Discover more: https://bit.ly/Widespread-Discrimination-Coast-To-Coast-N-S-E-W

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. oversees a panel of New York volunteers that released a report decrying longstanding racial inequities in the state’s child welfare system. Photo from the official website.

FREE Summer & Year-Round Food Programs In Your Community

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For free summer meal programs in your community, here are several convenient resources:

🍎 Text the word FOOD to 304-304 to receive a list of locations near your home. Or visit: https://www.nokidhungry.org/help

🍞 Call the USDA Hotline at 1-866-348-6479, Monday through Friday, or texting “Summer Meals” to 914-342-7744.

https://blackdoctor.org/summer-food-service-programs-for-youth-in-need/

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An Important "Push to ‘Decriminalize’ Young People Who Grew up in Foster Care"

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🚨 “With our young people, we want to ensure the system sees them as children and not as criminals... and there should be trauma-informed practice that can shape their stories and help them find the healing they need.”

For more on this very important issue, please visit:

https://bit.ly/ItsAPipelineToPrisonSystem

PS... This is worth repeating because the world fails to see their humanity.

“Ma’Khia Bryant and Cornelius Fredericks were both teens in foster care when they were killed by police and residential treatment center staff, respectively. File photos.”

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"80 Years Ago In The Holocaust, We Were Completely Defenseless. Nobody Came To Our Aid And We Were Slaughtered"

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In a recent interview PM Netanyahu rightly justifies his position to defend Israel.

"We will do what we need to do, what we must do to make sure Hamas does not retake Gaza and ... repeat the horrible October 7th massacre, the beheading of women, after they raped them, the burning of babies, the slaughter of the innocent, the taking of hostages... I hope we can reach an understanding, but we will do what we must do." - PM Benjamin Netanyahu

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❤️ Israel

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❤️ Israel has been unjustly targeted throughout history. It is important that they love who they are, and that they defend themselves faithfully.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, in Jerusalem, on May 6, 2024. (Amir Cohen/Pool/Reuters)

Hundreds pack funeral for Roger Fortson, the Black airman killed in his home by a Florida deputy

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"People lined up well before the start of the service at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest to file past the open coffin and say their goodbyes to Fortson, who was shot six times by a deputy responding to a May 3 call... He was 23. The Rev. Jamal Bryant opened his eulogy with a story about how civil rights icon Medgar Evers joined the Army during World War II even though he and other Black American service members were fighting for freedoms abroad that they didn't enjoy at home."

https://bit.ly/StillNoRightsAtHome

Airman Roger Fortson's casket is carried during the interment for Fortson at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Friday, May 17, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)© Provided by The Associated Press

"TULSA RACE MASSACRE SURVIVOR CELEBRATES 110TH BIRTHDAY"

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"TULSA RACE MASSACRE SURVIVOR CELEBRATES 110TH BIRTHDAY"

"Over four years ago, Fletcher’s and Randle’s families launched a case in 2020 seeking justice for the attack that took place when they were both children. Their lead attorney, Damario Solomon-Simmons, said Fletcher looks “vibrant” but said time is of the essence for her to 'see justice in her lifetime.' ​ The third plaintiff in the case, Hughes Van Ellis, died in October at 102 years old. Ellis was Fletcher’s younger brother. The case, filed against the city of Tulsa and the regional chamber among others, has two claims: to seek money and property lost as a result of the massacre and an unjust enrichment claim in which the suit alleges that the defendants made money off the survivors’ name, image and likeness." ​

For more on this important history, visit here: https://bit.ly/Dont-Let-Them-Bury-My-Story

You may also purchase Viola Fletcher's memoir online: https://bit.ly/-Dont-Let-Them-Bury-My-Story

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Viola Fletcher, (seated in corner of couch), one of the two remaining survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, was celebrated for her 110th birthday with a catered meal. Her meal choice -- oxtails.© Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News/TNS