PugJesusJamen Butler (left) and Tom Malim, a gay couple, USA, 1971
MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History June 10, 1937: The mayor of Monroe, Michigan organized a vigilante mob of 1,400 men armed with baseball bats and teargas to break the picket line at Newton Steel. As a result, eight strikers were injured and hospitalized. The vigilantes also vandalized sixteen of the workers’ cars dumped eight of them into the river. During this same strike wave in the steel industry, there was a Memorial Day Massacre, in Chicago, in which the police beat and shot scores of people, including men and women, killing at least 25. There was also the Women’s Day Massacre, in Youngstown, Ohio, in which 2 workers were killed. 10% of the union at that time was made up of African American workers. Although few women worked in the industry, they played a pivotal role in the strike, walking picket lines with the men, risking life and limb in confrontations with the police.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #union #strike #vigilantes #michigan #steel #vandalism #women #africanamerican #BlackMastodon #massacre #police #policebrutality
tanz.danceTrajal Harrell is a cult figure for many. The #NewYork master confronts the old conflict between #AfricanAmerican dance and the Postmodernism of white stars of #USdance: https://tanz.dance/in-front-of-mirrors/?lang=en His “Chorégraphie pour une œuvre” in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, June 8
Dining and CookingOsaka and Townsend’s Dinner for Black Players at French Open Caused ‘Bit of a Stir’ on Social Media
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#dining #cooking #diet #food #DinnerTonight #Frenchdinner #africanamerican #AfricanAmericans #blackamericans #blackcommunity #BlackPeople #community #dinner #francais #france #French #news #SanDiegoVoiceandViewpoint #UnitedStates #VoiceandViewpoint
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Boys playing on a doorway in New York City, USA, ~1940
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Trajal Harrell is a cult figure for many. The #NewYork master confronts the old conflict between #AfricanAmerican dance and the Postmodernism of white stars of #USdance: https://tanz.dance/in-front-of-mirrors/?lang=en His “The Romeo” in Montréal, Théâtre Jean-Duceppe, June 4-6.
JoyMy first face study when I was learning color and digital painting in early 2023! It's one of those lightning in a bottle moments, didn't quite know how I got to the end.
Italian News by RSSL'Unità: La Corte Suprema Usa annulla condanna a morte per “pregiudizio razziale” della giuria: esclusi i giurati afroamericani
C’era un “pregiudizio razziale” nella composizione della giuria che lo aveva condannato alla pena di morte. Così la Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti ha annullato la sentenza nei confronti di Terry Pitchford, condannato per omicidio nel 2006 e poi destinato al braccio della morte da una giuria del Mississipi.
Pitchford venne accusato per una rapina finita nel sangue: fu il suo complice a sparare al proprietario di un negozio di alimentari, Reuben Britt, con una pistola calibro 22. Eppure Pitchford, che all’epoca aveva 18 anni, venne condannato alla pena di morte.
Vent’anni dopo quella decisione la Corte Suprema Usa ha stabilito, con un voto a maggioranza di 5 contro 4, che Pitchford non avrebbe potuto far valere pienamente le proprie obiezioni sull’esclusione di quattro potenziali giurati neri durante il processo.
Un ruolo chiave nella vicenda è dell’allora procuratore Doug Evans, accusato dai legali di Pitchford di aver usato criteri discriminatori per escludere cittadini neri dalla giuria popolare. Inizialmente la composizione era di 36 bianchi e 5 neri, un numero già abnorme considerato che la popolazione afroamericana rappresentava circa il 40 per cento degli abitanti della contea.
Non contento il procuratore Evans era riuscito a eliminare quattro dei cinque potenziali giurati neri. Dagli atti del tribunale era poi emerso come Evans avesse annotato la lista dei giurati segnando una “W” accanto ai nomi dei bianchi (come ‘White’) e una “B” (come ‘Black’) accanto ai nomi dei neri.
Il procuratore era già finito nel mirino della Corte Suprema statunitense per casi giudiziari da lui seguiti. Nel 2019 i giudici federali avevano già annullato la condanna di Curtis Flowers, altro uomo nero del Mississippi processato da Evans, stabilendo che il procuratore aveva ancora una volta tentato sistematicamente di escludere i neri dalla giuria.
La Corte Suprema 40 anni fa ,nella sentenza “Batson v. Kentucky“, aveva stabilito che i giurati non possono essere esclusi dal servizio in base alla razza e aveva creato un sistema per consentire ai giudici di valutare le accuse di discriminazione e le giustificazioni “neutre” fornite dai pubblici ministeri.
The Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence for “racial bias” of the jury: black jurors excluded
There was a “racial bias” in the jury’s composition that condemned him to the death penalty. Thus, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the verdict against Terry Pitchford, convicted of murder in 2006 and subsequently sentenced to death by a jury in Mississippi.
Pitchford was charged with a robbery that ended in bloodshed: his accomplice shot the owner of a grocery store, Reuben Britt, with a .22 caliber pistol. Nevertheless, Pitchford, who was 18 years old at the time, was sentenced to death.
Twenty years after that decision, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled, by a 5-4 majority vote, that Pitchford could not have fully asserted his objections to the exclusion of four potential black jurors during the trial.
A key role in the case is that of the then-prosecutor Doug Evans, accused by Pitchford’s lawyers of using discriminatory criteria to exclude black citizens from the jury pool. Initially, the composition was of 36 white and 5 black jurors, an already abnormal number considering that the African American population represented approximately 40 percent of the county’s inhabitants.
Unsatisfied, prosecutor Evans had managed to eliminate four of the five potential black jurors. Subsequently, from court records, it emerged that Evans had noted the jury list, marking a “W” next to the names of the whites (as ‘White’) and a “B” (as ‘Black’) next to the names of the blacks.
The prosecutor had already been the subject of criticism from the U.S. Supreme Court in judicial cases he had pursued. In 2019, federal judges had already overturned the conviction of Curtis Flowers, another black man from Mississippi prosecuted by Evans, establishing that the prosecutor had once again systematically attempted to exclude blacks from the jury.
The Supreme Court 40 years ago, in the ruling “Batson v. Kentucky,” established that jurors cannot be excluded from service based on race and created a system to allow judges to assess allegations of discrimination and “neutral” justifications provided by prosecutors.
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Today in Labor History May 26, 1857: Dred Scott was freed from slavery. Scott is most well-known because of the infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court decision. He had sued for his family’s freedom, arguing that they had lived four years in the north, where slavery was illegal. The Court ruled 7-2 that people of African descent weren’t U.S. citizens and thus had no standing before the court. Scott’s lawsuit was funded by the children of Peter Blow, who had turned against slavery in the years since their father had sold the Scotts to John Emerson. After the ruling, Emerson’s wife and her new husband, who was an abolitionist, deeded the Scotts back to the Blow children. They manumitted the Scotts on May 26, 1857. However, Dred Scott died from tuberculosis fourteen months later.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #DredScott #SCOTUS #abolition #africanamerican #BlackMastodon
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Reports to the Carabinieri using the IO app, without going to the barracks.
Soon it will be possible to file complaints via the IO app without going to the barracks: the announcement from the General Commander of the Carabinieri.
Sonny Rollins has died, the “greatest improviser”: farewell to the jazz legend saxophonist.
Just as we are celebrating around the world what today would have been the 100th birthday of Miles Davis, another giant of jazz music passes away. Sonny Rollins was the last great representative of bebop, a sacred monster of that fantastic era of improvisers between the 1950s and 1960s. But he had been much more, much more, an innovative and fantastic live musician until the early 2000s. He was 95 years old and died in Woodstock, New York. He had become the “best living improviser” in the scene.
He was born in Harlem, New York, in September 1930, Walter Theodore Rollins by name, the son of a couple originally from the American Virgin Islands. A family of musicians: his father played the clarinet, his brother the violin, and his sister the piano. He had also started with the piano before being fascinated, at the age of 11, by the saxophone. He initially chose the alto, later the tenor like his idol Coleman Hawkins. He was still very young when he began to record with Bud Powell and Miles Davis, before joining the formation of Thelonious Monk, with whom he recorded Brilliant Corners. With John Coltrane he recorded Tenor Madness: they were those to give him the scepter of the most influential and popular saxophonist in jazz music.
From 1956, Saxophone Colossus, a fundamental album for hard bop in which, with the standard St. Thomas, he honored the origins of his parents, inspired by calypso. In Way Out West and A Night at the Village he experimented with the formula with the trio without piano, in 1959 he temporarily withdrew from the scene, spending 14 or 15 hours a day improvising on the pedestrian walkway of the Williamsburg Bridge, in New York. This is how the album The Bridge (1962) was born. The 1960s were the years of free jazz, of contamination with Asian culture, the discovery of Zen Buddhism and a new retreat until the 1970s.
When he returned, he received a Guggenheim fellowship and began to perform in major concert halls. He had achieved the status of a living legend, an icon with his afro hairstyle and sunglasses. He also recorded three solos on the Rolling Stones album Tattoo. He has recorded over 60 albums, he was awarded two Grammys for This is What I Do in 2001 and for the solo in Why Was I Born? from the live album Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert. The President of the United States, Barack Obama, awarded him the National Humanities Medal. Rollins, in a very long career, had recovered the bebop tradition of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and that of African American music between blues and gospel.
He had married Lucille in 1965, who became his manager, dying in 2004. Rollins, like many artists of that time, also suffered from abuse and heroin addiction, which almost compromised his career at the beginning of the 1950s, with a dramatic setback. He was arrested, twice, for armed robbery and violation of probation. He detoxed in a health facility in Lexington, Kentucky.
His spokesperson, Terri Hinte, announced the death, stating that Rollins had been forced to stay at home for some time due to pulmonary fibrosis. He had given his last concert in 2012 – one of the last at the popular Italian festival Umbria Jazz – and stopped playing in 2014. For that phase of his free and obsessive outdoor improvisation in New York, also captured in the character “Bleeding Gums” from The Simpsons, for years a movement asked that the Williamsburg Bridge be named after him.
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