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Black People Are Demanding Police Abolition—We Could Be Demanding Much More

Featuredby Benji Hart 1 Comment

The white and wealthy are lucky abolition is all we want.

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Economic Justice, Education, Ethnic Studies, Liberalism

#TurnUp4TT: A Public Statement from the Organizers

October 5, 2016by Benji Hart 10 Comments

On September 11, 2016 TT Saffore, a young, Black, trans woman was found murdered in a park on Chicago’s West Side. Today, a coalition of Black, trans and gender-nonconforming community […]

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Ethnic Studies, Queer Power, Uncategorized

To Fight For Black Lives Is To Be Anti-Police

July 21, 2016by Benji Hart 7 Comments

Since the murders of five police officers in Dallas, TX and three more in Baton Rouge, LA over the recent days, their has been renewed condemnation of the Black Lives […]

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Economic Justice, Education, Ethnic Studies, Liberalism

Black Kids Don’t Get to Wait to Talk About Police Violence–White Kids Shouldn’t Either

July 9, 2016by Benji Hart 16 Comments

I’m presently between jobs, and am working the summer as a counselor at a music camp for elementary aged kids. It’s an expensive and elite program, and a majority of […]

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Economic Justice, Education, Ethnic Studies, Liberalism

To a Black Child Learning About the Movement in Fifty Years

May 5, 2016by Benji Hart 8 Comments

I want you to know they despised us above all else watched us turning every corner even as we slept for years we implored them screamed in agony they told us […]

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Ethnic Studies, The Arts

The Wisdom of #ByeAnita: On Political Perfection and Radical Strategy

March 28, 2016by Benji Hart 4 Comments

Earlier this month, Chicago’s state’s attorney Anita Alvarez was decisively voted out of office. Her key role—not merely in covering up the murder of Laquan McDonald, but in regularly defending […]

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Economic Justice, Education, Ethnic Studies, Liberalism

My (Apparently) Obligatory Response to ‘Formation’: In List Form

February 10, 2016by Benji Hart 123 Comments

1. I have actively avoided saying anything about Beyoncé’s new song and video. I don’t think they are interesting, important or deserving of my commentary. That as a Black, queer person […]

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Liberalism, Queer Power, The Arts

When Police Kill Us, We Don’t Need To Apologize

January 4, 2016by Benji Hart 6 Comments

“There are good cops” is a desperately reassuring refrain we hear regularly in the movement for Black lives. Indeed, we are often the ones who say it. When a cousin of […]

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Economic Justice, Ethnic Studies, Liberalism

Misogyny on the Mag Mile: A Turning Point

December 2, 2015by Benji Hart 23 Comments

Several prominent Chicago youth organizers—all of them Black women, and the majority of them queer—were physically assaulted on Black Friday during the hugely successful shutdown of the Magnificent Mile in […]

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Ethnic Studies, Queer Power

#FundBlackFutures Action Shuts Down IACP Conference

October 24, 2015by Benji Hart 2 Comments

Happening Now: BYP100 is shutting down the IACP Conference in Chicago. A smaller cohort of allied affinity groups is supporting the action by blocking the major streets in front of McCormick Place. […]

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Ethnic Studies, Queer Power

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