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#DrivingWhileBlack Will "Road Rage" Be the New Lynching?

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Image of Bianca Roberson, a beautiful female presenting African -American teen with long wavy black hair, smiling. She is holding a white rose bud Image Credit from GoFundMe Yesterday, Chester County Police announced that 18-year-old Bianca Nikol Roberson was shot in the head by a white man driving a pickup truck. Her body was discovered by police on Wednesday. They are calling it a horrific act of road rage. The West Goshem Township Police Department has released a screenshot of the suspect's truck from traffic camera footage. The suspect is still at large. A fundraising page has been opened to help the family with burial costs: https://www.gofundme.com/please-help-support-the-family?pc=tw_dn_cpgntopnavlarge_r&rcid=r01-14988364472-b6da4a5ba9614c58 Nabra Hassanen, a vibrant beautiful teen of color wearing a beige hijab laughing with a friend a Snapchat crown of flowers around her head. On Sunday June 17th, Nabra Hassanen was walking home from a...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Stanford - "The other America" 1967

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  THE OTHER AMERICA  A Speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 14 April 1967 Stanford University Dean Napier, Mr. Bell; members of the faculty and members of the student body of this great institution of learning; ladies and gentlemen. Now there are several things that one could talk about before such a large, concerned, and enlightened audience. There are so many problems facing our nation and our world, that one could just take off anywhere. But today I would like to talk mainly about the race problems since I'll have to rush right out and go to New York to talk about Vietnam tomorrow, and I've been talking about it a great deal this week and weeks before that. But I'd like to use as a subject from which to speak this afternoon, the Other America. And I use this subject because there are literally two Americas. One America is beautiful for situation. And, in a sense, this America is overflowing with the milk of prosperity and the honey of opportunity. This Ameri...