Forms and Places of POWER, MYTHS&HEROES, the notion of PROGRESS:

On #BlackLivesMatter, controversy around the movement, old and newer forms of protest:

• #BlackLivesMatter: the birth of a new civil rights movement. How a new generation of tech-savvy activists made violence against African Americans into global headline news. Elizabeth Day, the Guardian, Sunday 19 July 2015.

• I was a civil rights activist in the 1960s. But it’s hard for me to get behind Black Lives Matter. I support BLM's cause, but not its approach. BarbaraReynolds, the Wahington Post, August 24,2015.

• Is Black Lives Matter blowing it? John Blake, CNN, August 2, 2016.

on PROGRESS: have the African-Americans made headway? Has the colour barrier been tumbled down? The legacy of slavery. Ava DuVernay's Thirteenth.

• Ava DuVernay on the legacy of slavery: ‘The sad truth is that some minds will not be changed’, DuVernay’s last film, Selma, was overlooked at the Oscars. Her documentary 13th, which links Trump-era America to its racist past, is a hot favourite to win an award. John Patterson, theguardian.com, Monday 6 February 2017. 

• 13th review: Ava DuVernay doc shows prisons are the new plantations.
  DuVernay’s incendiary film, which world premieres at the New York film festival, is a wakeup call that steers clear of broad brush Michael Moorisms to offer a brutal analysis of race and the law in the US. Jordan Hoffman, theguardian.com, Friday 30 September 2016.

A very interesting article to complete the information provided with the Chasing the Dream article which was studied in class:

• Equality still elusive 50 years after Civil Rights Act, Blacks have made many economic and educational gains, but progress still falls short. Richard Wolf , USA TODAY, Jan. 19, 2014 | Updated 12:22 p.m. ET April 1, 2014.

On MASS INCARCERATION: Thank you Matthieu T°ES2 for sharing this:

• Black Crime Rates: What Happens When Numbers Aren’t Neutral. Kim Farbota, Huffingtonpost.com, 09/02/2015 03:28 pm ET | Updated Sep 02, 2016.

On RACIAL TENSIONS IN THE USA:

• Killings and racial tensions commingle with divided and divisive politics. DanBalz, Washingtonpost.com, July8,2016.

• Trump's black history month speech a 'dire forecast' for black community. Rev Al Sharpton called the president’s self-referential black history month welcome event at the White House ‘tantamount to an insult’.Jamiles Lartey, theguardian.com, Thursday 2 February 2017

Thank you Paul (T°ES2) for sharing this article:

• A New Martin Luther King Jr. Parade Divides a Virginia Town. The New York Times, CAITLIN DICKERSON, JAN. 16, 2017.

On OBAMA'  s LEGACY:

• America just spent 8 years with a black president. For many African Americans, it meant one big thing: freedom to ‘dream’. LA Times, Jaweed Kaleem, Kurtis Lee and Jenny Jarvie, Jan. 16, 2017.