Monthly news & updates 07.28.20 | Mid-Summer Issue Hello: This is DiDi Delgado — poet, educator, author, mother and a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Cambridge. I want to thank you if you have previously signed up for a class, made a donation to one of my initiatives, checked the…

The psychiatrist was up for parole in mid-Nevuary – @TheDiDiDelgado Donations & reparations welcome to the author, but only if you got it like that.

This week, the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association (BPPA) sent a letter to the Boston Teachers Union (BTU), admonishing them for their participation in the highly anticipated “Black Lives Matter at School Week.” The letter claims that Black Lives Matter “inaccurately demonizes” police departments across the country, who kill roughly 1,000…

Cash-Poor Whites Are Still on the Hook for Services Rendered — Over the past 20 years, I’ve watched several radical concepts creep into the American mainstream: ✓ Socialism. ✓ Communism. ✓ Intersectional Feminism. ✓ Eating ass. All of these concepts are still heavily debated, but they’re no longer the cultural taboos they once were. “Communist,” for example, was an insult when…

If you haven’t seen the latest collaboration between generic white guy “rapper,” Lil’ Dicky, and misogynoirist extraordinaire, Chris Brown, allow me to save you five and a half minutes of your life. — The breakdown: Chris Brown is still alive, and making music. Boring intro where Lil’ Dicky says he’s tired of being pigeonholed as a shitty white rapper, even though he is one. Chris Brown says he’s stressed out for “always being scrutinized” for being an abusive asshole.

Super Mad In the early morning Sunday hours, amidst the scattered foot traffic of a Chicago O’Hare International Airport corridor, a woman, coffee with cream skin, raven hair, full lips and large doe eyes, stops walking towards her gate. She is wearing black. From head to toe. Her hooded sweatshirt shouts“FLINT LIVES…

A progressive’s guide to fucking shit up in 2018 — Pssstt… Progressives, Liberals, and would-be allies: I know you’re busy crafting tweets, signing petitions, and sharing anti-Trump memes… but do you wanna know the best way to ring in the new year? By dismantling oppression! Here are 8 New Year’s resolutions for truly radical resistance. Let’s go. Editor’s Note: Medium…

Polk County Sheriff tweets he’ll be checking IDs and barring those with warrants from emergency shelters — You know the worst thing about white people? — aside from their food and clothing choices, and how they behave at outdoor festivals or any event with glow sticks. The worst thing about white people is that they’ve created a not-so-secret language to mask their attitudes about people of color…

I will never forget how you used your power and influence to uphold white supremacy in Boston. — Mayor Walsh, I received word of your arrogant response to my rejection of City Council honors today, for my role in organizing Saturday’s Fight Supremacy March. Let me be clear: My rejection of City Council’s resolution was in no way a slight to Tito Jackson, Ayanna Pressley, Michelle Wu, or…