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Video Shows Police Telling Black Woman It’s A ‘Crime’ To Play Malcolm X Speeches

Video Shows Police Telling Black Woman It’s A ‘Crime’ To Play Malcolm X Speeches

A neighbor said he didn’t want his family to hear “Islamic-Jihadist type messages.”

It has been more than 50 years since Malcolm Xtraveled around the globe to bring awareness to human rights violations being made against Black people in America. A quick glance at the world’s affairs suggests that not much has changed in society since then. Just days shy of the iconic activist’s 94th birthday on…

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Do it like Durham! Interview with Takiyah Thompson

By Mikisa Thompson

These last few months have been a flurry of emotions. Watching my daughter leaves me in awe, because she embodies everything and more that I would like to see her be in life. She is brilliant, articulate, responsible and caring. She loves her Blackness and her Queerness, and she has a passion that drives her to be the best person in society that she can be.

She was the first to be arrested for her alleged crime against a statue. However, the Nazis in Charlottesville, Va., weren’t arrested until the public forced the hands of the police to arrest them.

MT: How has your life changed since Aug. 14?

TT: There’s been a lot of ups and downs. I faced death threats, but also a lot of support from my comrades, family and the community. Since then, my belief in a world without white supremacy and capitalism has been steeled. I’m more optimistic than ever; sometimes I’m tired and weary but still very hopeful.

MT: Give me your vision of 2018, now that we are 100 years after the Russian Revolution.

TT: My outlook for 2018 is to continue organizing and mobilizing around this issue. … I’m about to go to trial for my alleged role in toppling the Confederate statue, and I just want to keep using court to further get my message out there and to talk about white supremacy and capitalism, how the two go hand-in-hand.

I’m hoping that more folks can understand the urgency of the moment that we’re living in and not be swayed by these midterm elections, with Democrats trying to convince us to drop everything — forget about racism, about sexism, about capitalism being at a dead end — and just vote for the middle path. You know, don’t vote for the middle path; you don’t get out of the road. Take a left.

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Black Woman Charged, Has Home Raided by Police After White Neighbor Complains She Was Playing Malcolm X Speeches Too Loudly

Black Woman Charged, Has Home Raided by Police After White Neighbor Complains She Was Playing Malcolm X Speeches Too Loudly

A North Carolina woman says she feared for her life after half a dozen Garner Police officers raided her home last week, seizing several of her belongings after a noise complaint from her white neighbor.

“There was no provocation or warning,” Mikisa Thompson told IndyWeek via email. “They were watching the house all day. Garner PD wants to kill me.”

The incident unfolded around 10 p.m. May 16…

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#Repost @conscious_couture ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿 Atlanta Black Star reported on Mikisa Thompson’s home being raided for a noise ordinance! When have you ever heard that be justification for a home to be raided? That Malcolm X will disturb the devil until he can’t take no more. I hope she gets justice for this unconstitutional raid! https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxs0VFFFqww/?igshid=1dqp4qjmosfj6

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repost @atlblackstar North Carolina woman Mikisa Thompson says she feared for her life after half a dozen Garner Police officers raided her home last week, seizing several of her belongings after a noise complaint from her white neighbor. “There was no provocation or warning,” Thompson told IndyWeek via email. “They were watching the house all day. Garner PD wants to kill me.” #malcolmx ________ Me🗯: These kkkolonizas and their kkkops make me sick. #teamrob #unifyordie #practicalblackconsciousness #decolonizeyourmind https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxsxvv_nGTRPpH-U3RS25QckEzjVmpVqOEKRY80/?igshid=1q2ppxdm1e1rv

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A white neighbor had called 911, and the police say she violated a noise ordinance—a misdemeanor.

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Garner, North Carolina, police swarmed into a Black woman’s home and confiscated several of her belongings, all because a neighbor called 911 to complain about her playing Malcolm X speeches, […]

The post Police Raid Black Woman’s Home After White Neighbor Complains About Loud ‘Islamic-Jihadist’ Malcolm X Speeches appeared first on Essence.

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Black suffrage: The ongoing struggle for the right to vote

By Mikisa Thompson 

States such as Georgia and North Carolina still have an abundance of racially charged laws to keep the Black vote low or nonexistent. North Carolina just voted in a constitutional amendment that requires showing ID to vote. It is still unclear as to which form of ID would be needed, but these types of measures are enacted to deter Black, immigrant and working-class voters.

The tactics change, but the message is abundantly clear: Voter suppression of Black people will continue to be steeped in white supremacy.

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Samaj Calhoun, a Southwest Washington resident, came to protest the rally with friends to show they wouldn’t be intimidated by the white supremacists. Calhoun said she hopes the rest of the country watching the District sees “that we’re not afraid. And we can defend our city.”

Mikisa Thompson, who was on the front lines of the counter­protesters in Lafayette Square, said she traveled to Washington from North Carolina. She said she specifically came out for people who were traumatized and beaten last year in Charlottesville, notably Heather Heyer.

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Today is the first day of Spring Black people are being murdered in Austin Black people are being poisoned in Flint Black people are dying in jails and prisons

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Say their names! Recy Taylor and Erica Garner

By Mikisa Thompson

The system is stacked against us. Life is a race that we have yet to master because the system works exactly as it is intended to. Mrs. Taylor spoke up and wasn’t heard. Ms. Garner spoke up for her father and was denied justice.

Justice isn’t blind at all. The system sees you, but does not count you in because of your Blackness and poorness.

However, this will not last forever because we are the revolution. The actions you take today to support Black women, who have been the truth-tellers for eons, will build a new foundation. A foundation that will be free of white supremacy.

Protect Black women. Hear Black women. Honor Black women. Fight for Black women. Uplift Black women.

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By Sarah Willets

The Defend Durham movement has rallied around the defendants since the charges were filed, holding demonstrations each time they appeared in court. On Tuesday, supporters gathered outside the courthouse to share their ideas for what should replace the Confederate monument, the base of which remains where it has stood on Main Street since 1924. Among the suggestions written down or drawn on craft paper were "a water fountain or something useful," "plant a tree that would represent all of the branches of Durham's people," "a big ass statue" of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, and a heart made of intertwined, multi-colored wires. Mikisa Thompson drew a portrait of a fictional family with the words "My Queer Family." Thompson is the mother of Takiyah Thompson, who was the first person charged in the statue toppling after climbing the monument and looping a tow strap around it. The drawing included two women—one wearing a hijab as a nod to the news that President Trump's travel ban will be allowed to take effect—with a child and a cat.

Takiyah Thompson didn't add a suggestion but said the first thing that came to mind was North Korea and "the strength of the power of the people against U.S. imperialism. "Even though everyone puts on a brave face, this is really taxing," she said, noting she and her co-defendants have received death threats.