A lost interview (1995) with award-winning Sy Fy writer Octavia Butler and filmmaker Julie Dash at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and “40 Acres & A Microchip” the first black cyberspace conference in the UK for digerati of African descent.
“to re-examine our relationship to our cultures and the way we represent them through the use of digital technology.”
For those of you who started following me from the “Picking Favorites” podcast, here’s some news: Razzle has written a book! And you can pre-order it on Amazon NOW!
(Real Talk: I’ve met Razzle and have talked to him one-on-one a few times, and he is genuinely one of the most thoughtful, down-to-earth, and generous people I have had the fortune to meet. He literally walked across downtown San Diego a couple years back JUST so that we could meet. I have “friends” that wouldn’t do that. So please support him, if you can– he’s a good one!)
PS: If you’re low on funds and want to pre-order, send me an ask. I’ll hook you up… (unless there’s a lot of requests, in which case you might have to wait until after the holidays. I just moved).
Well that’s awesome. But he’s gonna have to wait until this house buying process is over. I’ll need something calming after I tear my hair out 😆
In a win for the people of St. Louis and for the First Amendment, a federal judge granted our preliminary injunction on Nov. 15, requiring police to immediately adopt protocols to prevent mass deprivation of people’s constitutional rights. Under the protocols, the city of St. Louis cannot declare an “unlawful assembly” unless there is an imminent threat of violence. It also cannot declare an “unlawful assembly” for the purpose of punishing people for exercising their First Amendment rights. And police may not use chemical agents against nonviolent protestors in the absence of probable cause for an arrest or use chemical agents to disperse protestors or as punishment for protesting.
This is a win for the constitutional rights of the people of St. Louis, particularly communities of color. St. Louis is one of the nation’s most racially segregated cities, where ZIP codes separated by only a few miles can mean an 18-year difference in life expectancy. The city’s residents also confront the deadliest police force in the United States. St. Louis police kill people at a higher rate than any police department among the nation’s 100 most populous cities, according to data gathered from January 2013 to June 2017.
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