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Houston council’s Jolanda Jones draws scrutiny over handout – Houston Chronicle | #OYRchallenge

Know Your Rights With The Police by Jolanda Jones

Attorney Jolanda Jones hands out the below card to members of African American communities in hopes that this may save their lives. She also gives educational seminars to requesting communities.

See video of 2014 panel discussion with Deric Muhammad; Jolanda Johnson on the recent former City Councilman Jarvis Johnson’s traffic stop, missing $4,500 in restaurant receipts, and slap in the face.

Houston council’s Jolanda Jones draws scrutiny over handout – Houston Chronicle.

‘Why Didn’t You Just Leave? ’Six Domestic Violence Survivors Explain Why It’s Never That Simple | #OYRchallenge

Lovern is just one of 6 women in this series:

In this series, you will hear from six survivors of domestic violence about why they didn’t leave sooner. The stories — told in their own words — are as distinct as they are similar. One woman suffered a brutal week of abuse before fleeing. Others stayed for decades trying to make things work. Two women were shot, the bullets narrowly missing their hearts. Another endured years of incessant stalking.

via ‘Why Didn’t You Just Leave?’Six Domestic Violence Survivors Explain Why It’s Never That Simple.

The San Francisco Times

We damage our young men everyday by what we call tough talk, tough love, pulling the race up by their bootstraps. See this video, then watch it with your young men.

There’s a lot of focus on how society has treated minorities and women, but what about the flip side? What expectations do we have for the males in our society and how has that shaped their development? Within 30 seconds, find out the 3 most destructive words you can say to them.

via The San Francisco Times.

Against Patriarchy: Tools for Men to Further Feminist Revolution* | The Feminist Wire

For all of us who are men who believe in social justice, who want healthy and beautiful lives for our loved ones, and who are working for positive change in the world, let us commit or re-commit to making feminism central in our lives, values, and actions. Black feminist scholar bell hooks writes, “When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world where everyone can live fully and freely, then we know our work to be a gesture of love.” She continues, “Let us draw upon that love to heighten our awareness, deepen our compassion, intensify our courage, and strengthen our commitment.” It is time for men in the millions to take courageous action in our society to further feminist revolution.

via Against Patriarchy: Tools for Men to Further Feminist Revolution* | The Feminist Wire.

Shit Feminists Say (hagiographic.com)
Against Patriarchy: Tools for Men to Further Feminist Revolution (feimineach.com)
Feminist Masculinity (fakhrah.wordpress.com)
A Sassy Rant About Feminism (allthingssass.com)
Confessions of a Feminist Butt (theoutliercollective.wordpress.com)
10 Signs that Feminism May Not Be For You (theoutliercollective.wordpress.com)

The 8 Principles of Black Male Empowerment (DIGITAL DOWNLOAD AUDIO LECTURE) | Your Black World Network

Black men are capable of greatness beyond our wildest imaginations. But it is because of this greatness that they remain oppressed by the powers that be, convinced to embrace their own self-destruction, given pathways to either the prison or the morgue at a very early age. We have failed many of our boys by not teaching them the things they need to know in order to grow into adequate husbands, fathers, citizens and leaders. The destruction of a community starts with destroying the family. To destroy the family, you can often start by getting rid of the male. Far too often, millions of black men are marginalized and terminated before they ever have a chance to learn how great they can be.

via The 8 Principles of Black Male Empowerment (DIGITAL DOWNLOAD AUDIO LECTURE) | Your Black World Network.

Racism, Sexism, Identity, Oh My! (redsociology.com)
Five Mindsets That Hinder Black Women From Relationship Success (straightforwardtalk.net)
Black Male Turnout Higher Than Official Data Suggest (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)
ANALYSIS: Obama to Morehouse Men: Don’t Let the World ‘Keep a Black Man Down’ (blackamericaweb.com)
Black Men Vs. Black Women: Can We Squash The Beef? (madamenoire.com)
He Will Never Be a Man Until He Sees a Man (plantedbliss.com)
The Problem with Young Black Men is that They Are Not Violent Enough (newafricanmen.wordpress.com)
Trayvon Martin Open Thread (3chicspolitico.com)
President Obama Delivers Powerful, Personal Message to Black Men (atlantablackstar.com)

Over Charged Young Black Men & Women | Over Charged Young Black Men & Women | causes.com

Tvb Black men and women are being charged twice the amount of time that he or she should be given. It needs to STOP!

via Over Charged Young Black Men & Women | Over Charged Young Black Men & Women | causes.com.

Sunforce 7 amp charge controller (slideshare.net)
Where Have All the Good Men Gone? Ask the Women, Too. (acculturated.com)
Antarctica! – Paradise Harbour, Antarctica (travelpod.com)
FOCUS | To End Rape, We Need the F-Word (readersupportednews.org)
Aboriginal men take stand against violence toward women, children (timescolonist.com)
Dating Black Women…It’s Our Turn (lifebehindthewall.wordpress.com)
Young men giving up on marriage: ‘Women aren’t women anymore’ (lifesitenews.com)
L.A. Now Live: 2 LAPD officers accused of forcing women to have sex (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
Healthy Love: Ever Wonder Why Men Cheat? | Healthy Black Woman (habariganiamerica.com)

Healthy Love: Ever Wonder Why Men Cheat? | Healthy Black Woman

men cheat

200 men were surveyed. Some had cheated before, others hadn’t. 48% of the men that had cheated said that they did it because they were emotionally dissatisfied. They felt like they weren’t an equal part of the relationship or weren’t being heard. Men do not express feelings as women do most of the time, so this was their venting method of choice. Surprisingly only 8% of the men said that it was because they weren’t happy with their s*e*x life.

via Healthy Love: Ever Wonder Why Men Cheat? | Healthy Black Woman.

Man caught cheating live on Dublin radio show (independent.ie)
Why Women Stay After Men Cheat On Them | Healthy Black Woman (habariganiamerica.com)
7 Reasons Why Men Cheat (ivorymodels.wordpress.com)
4 Reasons Women Cheat (everydayhealth.com)
Women: Heart Attack Symptoms That Get Ignored But Shouldn’t | Healthy Black Woman (habariganiamerica.com)
Are You Going To Read “Manology”? (clutchmagonline.com)
5 Reasons You Should Not Sleep With a Married Man (singlebutnotstupid.wordpress.com)
Want To Find “True” Love? Apparently Reverend Run And Tyrese Have The Answers In New Book, ‘Manology’ (madamenoire.com)
Little Note to the Cheating Man With the Lousy Excuse….. (rizzysdiary.wordpress.com)
Why Men Cheat & How To Prevent It From Happening To You [EXPERT] (yourtango.com)

Marriage is Like Kitchenware and It Doesn’t Matter What Men Want. | Clutch Magazine

Relentless criticism of single black women is predicated on the idea that a woman not chosen as a wife is somehow defective. That is not how we view single men. (And, by the way, nearly 49 percent of black men have never married.)

via Marriage is Like Kitchenware and It Doesn’t Matter What Men Want. | Clutch Magazine.

Black Women: Is RG3 Down With Me? (blackamericaweb.com)
Single Black Female- The Epidemic (nubiansisters.com)
Is there really a Black Marriage Decline? (kysdc.com)
A Call to Action: Help Single Black Men Keep A Woman (clutchmagonline.com)
A Closer Look at Interracial Marriage Statistics (nortonbooks.typepad.com)
Depression, Money & Women (cashnetusa.com)
I do?…I don’t! (cilnblog.com)
Interracial Marriage among Newlyweds in the U.S. (nortonbooks.typepad.com)

Michael Specter: Exploring the Human Microbiome – StumbleUpon

Helicobacter pylori may be the most successful pathogen in human history. While not as deadly as the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, cholera, and the plague, it infects more people than all the others combined. H. pylori, which migrated out of Africa along with our ancestors, has been intertwined with our species for at least two hundred thousand years. Although the bacterium occupies half the stomachs on earth, its role in our lives was never clear. Then, in 1982, to the astonishment of the medical world, two scientists, Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren, discovered that H. pylori is the principal cause of gastritis and peptic ulcers; it has since been associated with an increased risk of stomach cancer as well. Until that discovery, for which the men shared a Nobel Prize, in 2005, stress, not an infection, was assumed to be the major cause of peptic ulcers.

‘We are 90% bacteria,’ says researcher for Hospital Microbiome Project (prn.fm)
[Radiophobia] Peptic ulcer unrelated to helicobacter pylori or analgesic increased as double in Miyagi (fukushima-diary.com)
On Microbiomes (ma.tt)
Germs Are Us (3quarksdaily.com)
Chapter 12: Human Microbiome Analysis (ploscompbiol.org)
Fab Read: The Fashion Questionnaire (fabsugar.com)
Biotech Startup uBiome Aims To Sequence The Bacteria That Call Our Bodies Home (singularityhub.com)
Say hello to your 100 trillion invisible friends (aka friendly bacteria) (mnn.com)
What Lives in Your Gut? (news.nationalgeographic.com)

New Congress will take fresh crack at old problems – Yahoo! News

New Congress will take fresh crack at old problems – Yahoo! News.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The new 113th U.S. Congress, which convenes on Thursday, is set to take a fresh crack at a number of old, and highly contentious, issues, such as gun control, immigration, the record debt, tax reform and the farm bill.