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American Studies professor Duchess Harris teaches at Macalester University in St. Paul, MN, and her textbook book, Black Lives Matter, will be published in November to address specific police shootings of Blacks over the last three years, including Trayvon Martin, Renisha McBride, and Michael Brown. Written on an eighth-grade level, the textbook is being pitched for sixth to twelfth graders and will be the first of its kind…Harris told Pacific Standard that the book it aimed at helping children understand the movement and its context… According to Harris, who also authored Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton/Obama, the book is for kids of all races.

[MadameNoire]

The False Gentrification Of New Orleans

When Hurricane Katrina made landfall on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, it served a devastating blow to a city so revered for its rich history and culture…In the past year, worries that gentrification would dilute the rich cultural history of New Orleans have expounded… Instead Crescent City has fallen prey to what journalist Naomi Klein calls disaster capitalism. It’s the type of profiteering from disasters that Monique Harden, co-director and attorney for Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, has seen in the privatization of recovery efforts… “People have not been able to come back to their neighborhoods and to their homes,” she says of areas that have staggered in the re-population and recovery that other areas have seen…According to the 2013 Census, about 99,650 fewer Black residents populate the city than in 2000.

[MadameNoire]

Apple Allegedly Blocked Drake’s Lil WeezyAna Fest TIDAL Performance

Lil Wayne kicked off the inaugural Lil WeezyAna Fest in New Orleans this weekend to benefit his Tha Carter Fund, which aims to help children in the rapper’s home state. After news that Canadian superstar Drake would be joining the Fest, claims that Apple blocked the streaming performance on TIDAL surfaced, but there’s more to the story. As reported by Page Six… TIDAL exclusively streamed the Fest, but fans watching at home or on their smart devices were reportedly met with a stern message… A source told us, “Legal letters have been sent to Tidal warning that Drake cannot appear on the Tidal stream of the festival, either solo or part of a group, and if the warning was ignored, the liabilities could be up to $20 million…”

[HipHopWired]


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