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EXPERIENCE, Film, JUSTICE, PLAY, Racial Justice, SportingJuly 23, 2024

Film Review | Jesse Owens, the Movie “RACE” and the Impact on the 2024 Olympic Games

Jesse Owens was an African American track athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. His story is significant because, in 1936, Europe was on the brink of World War II. Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, hosted the Berlin Olympics with the intent of showcasing its ideology of Aryan racial superiority. However, the Games became notable for challenging this propaganda. Jesse Owens’ victories directly contradicted Nazi racial theories and highlighted the absurdity of racial discrimination.

Books, EXPERIENCE, Human Rights, JUSTICEOctober 17, 2023

Book Review | Waiting to be Arrested at Night by Tahir Hamut Izgil

By Bill Clark

Tahir closes his narrative with a reflections,”We are finally free, but those we love the most are suffering still, left behind in that tortured land. Each time we think of them, we burn with guilt. We will see those dear ones only in our dreams.”

EXPERIENCE, Film, JUSTICE, Justice in ActionAugust 11, 2023

Film Festivals | Black August Film Festival Sophomore Year Opens in Pasadena, CA

By Georgia Sanders

The festival brings focus to justice movements that are current as well as from throughout history, movements from around the world and nationally, as well highlights media that has been produced locally that activity champions reform for the local Pasadena Police Department and also offers support to budding film-makers here in Pasadena, with the Pasadena African-American Film Foundation.

City LIfe!!, EXPLORE, JUSTICE, Justice in ActionJuly 20, 2023

BLACK LIVES MATTER | The People’s Justice Festival – BLM Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary

By Georgia Sanders

The People’s Justice Festival was designed to include “a reunion of families, organizers, activists, artists, spiritualists, freedom fighters, and allies. It’s a reclamation of the soul of Black Lives Matter, a chance to build our skills and restore our Spirits.” The vision was fulfilled this past Saturday!

A book with art of the hills. The title a stone is most precious where it belongs is prominent on the cover.

Books, EXPERIENCE, Human Rights, JUSTICEMay 9, 2023

Book Review | A Stone is Most Precious Where It Belongs

By Bill Clark

A type of social credit score for the Uyghur population, facilitated by AI technology, has grown into one the most extensively policed areas on planet earth. As surveillance has been adopted throughout the Uyghur homeland…

JOURNEY, JUSTICE, Racial Justice, RelationshipsOctober 20, 2022

Dr. Angela Davis | How The YWCA Saved Her Mother’s Life

By James Farr

In a timely and inspirational message, Dr. Angela Davis said that the work that her mother did, and so many others, especially women, and also including white women – is work has never been lifted up, until now.

A Black man wearing a grey beanie and bright blue sunglasses smiles brightly and does rock on-esque gestures for the camera.

City LIfe!!, EXPLORE, JUSTICE, Justice in ActionAugust 23, 2022

Juneteenth Celebration | Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA

By Enrique @ Culture Honey

The Leimert Park Juneteenth celebration is essentially a large family reunion to bring the Black community of LA together. It is designed to give back to Black owned businesses within the south Los Angeles area exposure, and to create awareness of the Black creative community in Leimert Park.

EXPERIENCE, Film, JUSTICE, Justice in ActionAugust 23, 2022

Film Festival | Black August Film Festival Debuts in Pasadena, CA

By Georgia Sanders

Local film makers Dennis Haywood and James Farr are contributing to the cause of justice via film again – this time through the founding and hosting an international film festival with it’s inaugural debut this month in Pasadena, CA on Saturday, August 13th, 2022.

Native American Boarding School kids dressed in costumes and white old timey wigs and standing in front of the American flag.

Essays, Human Rights, JUSTICE, PONDERJuly 26, 2022

Essay & Lament | Boarding Schools – Weaponized for Cultural & Religious Indoctrination

By Julie Clark

Before we spend the effort to understand the situation in China, it is vital for us, as people of good will in the United States, as well as in Canada, to examine our own history with Native American boarding schools.

Picture of Aminah Robinson-Briscoe smiling

JUSTICE, Justice in Action, People of Note, PONDERJune 14, 2022

People of Note | Aminah “Chef Mimi” Robinson-Briscoe, Founder of the Black Food & Wine Experience

By Victoria Hernandez

(Chef Mimi has)….created community through the Black Food & Wine Experience, which was held for the fifth time this summer…

Two male runners in their late twenties to early thirties. The man on the left is white and the man on the left is Black.

JUSTICE, Police ReformApril 12, 2022

Pasadena, CA | A Tale of Two Runners, 2022

By Georgia Sanders

The year was 1859 and Charles Dickens was writing about the French Revolution…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” wrote Charles Dickens at the beginning of his seminal book A Tale of Two Cities.

A girl dressed in traditional Ukrainian garb stands in front of a line of men in riot gear as snow or ash falls.

EXPERIENCE, Film, Human Rights, JUSTICEMarch 15, 2022

Film Review | Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Democracy

By Brian Biery

Occasionally there are moments in life when we are jarred out of the complacent routines of our lives and asked existential questions about who we are, what we value and who we care for. This is one of those moments…