Ficklin Media Daily Report Thursday March 15, 2018

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Women's History Month
A Critical Moment for Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory Conference to Be Held March 24 The 2018 Critical Race Theory conference will be held on March 24, with the t...
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Black History Month and Beyond

 Marielle Franco was a groundbreaking politician who had become a voice for disadvantaged that are home to almost one-quarter of Rio de Janeiro’s population, where grinding poverty, police brutality and shootouts with drug gangs are routine.
Protests held across Brazil after Rio councillor shot dead
Marielle Franco, known for criticism of police tactics, was killed in apparent assassination
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LIVE | Tens of thousands of Afro-Brazilian women and allies are taking to the streets of Rio de Janeiro to commemorate the life of assassinated Afro-Brazilian human rights activist and leftist councilwoman, Marielle Franco. #MariellePresente (via Midia Ninja)




Schools in Omaha, Nebraska have received more than 30 threats since Parkland, resulting in one thwarted attack and at least three arrests. An education reporter in Alabama has tracked at least 37 threats across that state since February 14. A student in Maryland brought a gun to school the day after the shooting in Florida. A 16-year-old was arrested in New Hampshire during that time period, after making threats against a technical school. At a different high school in New Ha...
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To see the national impact of school shootings, turn to local news
It’s been nearly three weeks since a man opened fire on students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people and…
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Black Politics




Black Economics




MAR19
Let Her Learn: Stop School Push Out
Mon 5:30 PMArnold Bernhard Arts & Humanities CenterBridgeport
Free tickets available · 111 people




Women’s History Month: Black Women In Comics - Los Angeles Sentinel
During this Women’s History Month, we take a look at Black women who are contributing to the comic book industry. Whether showcasing black…
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Black Health

Over the past few decades, genetic research has revealed two deep truths about people. The first is that all humans are closely related—more closely related than all chimps, even though there are many more humans around today. Everyone has the same collection of genes, but with the exception of identical twins, everyone has slightly different versions of some of them. Studies of this genetic diversity have allowed scientists to reconstruct a kind of family tree of human populations. That has revealed the second deep truth: In a very real sense, all people alive today are Africans. Kiplyn PrimusJoshua Mamis Kevin McCarthy



There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—It's a Made-Up Label
It's been used to define and separate people for millennia. But the concept of race is not grounded in genetics.
NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM

Black Alliance for Peace
Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old South African boy, was one of the first students to die.
On June 16, 1976, more than 10,000 black high school students in Soweto marched out of school, protesting an apartheid government mandate that they study in Afrikaans, the language of their oppressors.
Defying a law that banned “liberation protests” in a country where blacks were forced to live in segregated townships, denied the right to vote and subjected to an inferior “Bantu” education, the students marched to a sports stadium, singing songs and waving signs that read, “Afrikaans must be abolished.”



Student walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid.
U.S. students plan a nationwide walkout Wednesday to protest the Parkland school massacre. But they won't be risking their lives the way Soweto students…
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Center for Social Change




Poet Claudia Rankine speaks about confronting racism head on in her writing
Rankine spoke on race, writing, and other topics at an award luncheon sponsored by the Festival or Arts and Ideas and as a Poynter Fellow.
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Poverty is Not a Crime

A panel on Prison Nation, a special issue of Aperture, in New Brunswick on 3/21

Black Art , Music, Culture

We're looking for young LEADERS ready to change the game...is that YOU? If you're between the ages of 21 - 40, please join us TOMORROW for our Welcome Reception to learn more about Urban League of Southern Connecticut Young Professionals. Food and wine will be provided...all we are missing is YOU! RSVP TODAY and SHARE!!! #ULSCYP
MAR16
Welcome Reception (NHV)
Tomorrow 6 PM458 Grand Ave, Suite 102, New Haven, CT 06513-3842, United States
Free tickets available · Networking

Black Media



For Women’s History Month, a look at gender gains – and gaps – in the U.S.
Read key findings about gender gains and gaps in America.
PEWRESEARCH.ORG



Today’s Eerie Echoes of the Civil War



Today’s Eerie Echoes of the Civil War
In 1858, Abraham Lincoln launched his campaign for the Senate seat from Illinois with his now famous “A House Divided” speech. While he did not predict disunion or civil war, Lincoln alluded to the country’s deep political divisions over slavery and…
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