Chicago’s secret “Black Site” exposed

Chicago’s secret “Black Site” exposed.

On Tuesday, The Guardian’s Spencer Ackerman reported on the “equivalent of a CIA black site” operated by police in Chicago. When computer program analyst Kory Wright opened the story, he told me, “I immediately recognized the building” — because, the Chicago resident says, he was zip-tied to a bench there for hours in an intentionally overheated room without access to water or a bathroom, eventually giving false statements to try and end his ordeal.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/26/exclusive-chicago-black-site-detainee-speaks/

Nigerians Fleeing Boko Haram : Angels

A five-year-long campaign by Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which it says is a bid to revive northern Nigeria’s medieval Muslim empires, has become one of the deadliest in the world, with around 10,000 people killed last year.

Hundreds, mostly women and children, have been kidnapped and over 3 million people, among them the girl pictured above resting her head, are internally displaced.

http://widerimage.reuters.com/story/fleeing-boko-haram?utm_source=twitter

Spike Lee Blast Selma’ Oscar Snubs- Angel/Activist

The coincidence wasn’t lost on either of us. Lee’s films have been on the receiving end of several egregious Academy snubs, from his 1989 classic Do the Right Thing failing to receive a Best Picture nod—the racially problematicDriving Miss Daisy ended up winning that year—to Lee not receiving any nominations for his ambitious biopic Malcolm X, though it later landed on both Roger Ebert’s and Martin Scorsese’s lists of the best movies of the ’90s.

As they say, the more things change, the more they stay the same. The biggest Oscar news Thursday was that the powerful Martin Luther King Jr. biopicSelma managed nominations only for Best Picture and Best Song while being snubbed in all the other major categories, most notably Best Director (Ava DuVernay) and Best Actor (David Oyelowo). Lee, who said Selma and Birdmanwere the two best films he saw last year, seemed annoyed but not surprised. – The Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/15/spike-lee-blasts-selma-oscar-snubs-you-know-what-f-ck-em.html

Betty Shabazz, Dorothy Height, Shirley Chisholm & Marian Anderson. -Angels

Betty Shabazz, Dorothy Height, Shirley Chisholm & Marian Anderson, each a legend,  American Originals.

The black Victorians: Angels

From the African Choir posing like Vogue models to an Abyssinian prince adopted by an explorer, a new exhibition spotlights the first black people ever photographed in Britain.

Muja Messiah – It Goes Down (feat. I Self Divine)

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New joint from Mpls heavyweight Muja Messiah. This time he’s got I Self Divine on board as well.

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10,000 Palestinian protesters have rallied against Israeli military – Angles/Activist

10,000 Palestinian protesters have rallied and are clashing with Israeli military.

Mario Tama capturing Rio de Janeiro’s daily life’

Mario Tama, a staff photographer for Getty Images, first caught my eye a few months ago with this disturbing photo above taken in what the caption calls Rio de Janeiro’s “Cracolandia” (Read: “Crackland” or “Dope City”). In addition to the complexity of his layered compositions, the ‘daily life’ photos he’s been filing from Brazil ever since are compeling for their potential to offer a counterpoint to the state and corporate sponsor-sanctioned glossy imagery of the World Cup.

Mayam Mahmoud, an Egyptian rapper/Angel

“I realized all the male rappers must have a track in which they talk about girls and their clothes, blaming girls for everything happening around us,” said 19-year-old Mayam Mahmoud, an Egyptian rapper. “That wasn’t right. So I rapped about girls and the problems they face.” -policymic.com

Maya Angelou – Angel/ American Original

Maya Angelou – Angel/ American Original.

Maya Angelou (/ˈmaɪ.ə ˈændʒəloʊ/;[1][2] born Marguerite Ann Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014[3]) was an American author and poet. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning more than fifty years. She received dozens of awards and over thirty honorary doctoral degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of seventeen, and brought her international recognition and acclaim.

A mother to many without.