The people you see on British banknotes today all made history and shaped society in one way or another. They have at least one thing in common: they’re all white.
Those faces belong to former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, author J…
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Jay-Z made a documentary about Trayvon Martin’s murder. Here’s what you should know about it.
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When Sybrina Fulton was asked to return to Sanford, Florida, the city where her son Trayvon Martin was fatally shot in 2012, she remembers refusing.
“I’m never coming there,” she says in the new documentary series Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story. Fulton could barely brush her teeth or comb her hair — how could they ask her to set foot where her son died?
But then something changed inside her. That transformation is documented in the first episode of Rest in Power, thanks to footage from her sister’s phone. Read more…
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Google’s non-profit arm donates another $7.5 million to advance racial justice
Google.org is donating $7.5 million to racial justice organizations Vera Institute for Justice, LatinoJustice, The Leadership Conference and R Street’s Justice for Work Coalition. This brings Google.org’s total amount funding to racial justice organizations to $32 million since 2015.
Google.org’s racial justice portfolio arc has focused on what Justin Steele, principal at… Read More
Use your computer’s extra power to mine cryptocurrency—and help low-income people pay bail
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People are used to rounding up their spare change or running lots of apps in the background of their computer. Two new programs are taking those well-known strategies and using them to support bail funds for people who can’t pay.
Appolition, which launched Tuesday, lets users round up their credit card purchases to the nearest dollar and donate the remainder to community bail funds. It’s like Acorns, but instead of investing your money, you’re directing it to a cause. The name of the app is a play on abolition, a nod to its focus on racial justice and ending mass incarceration.
Bail Bloc, launched Wednesday by a team at The New Inquiry, takes your computer’s spare power and mines a cryptocurrency called Monero, which is converted into U.S. dollars and donated to the Bronx Freedom Fund and soon The Bail Project. Bail Bloc runs on a complicated system, but you don’t need to fully understand cryptocurrency or Monero to contribute—although it does come with a helpful cryptocurrency explainer for those who are curious. Read more…
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