Loving Day Celebrations

Loving Day Celebrations are planned all over the U.S., and globally in France, the Netherlands, and Japan. The list of celebrations (so far) is included below.

• 06/08/2017 – Santa Monica, CA – Do Something Loving!
• 06/09/2017 – Cincinnati, OH – Cincinnati Loving Day 2017 Celebration And Free Movie Screening!
• 06/09/2017 – Philadelphia, PA – The Loving Project Exhibit
• 06/09/2017 – Rotterdam and Amsterdam, Netherlands – Loving Day Netherlands 2017
• 06/09/2017 – New Orleans, LA – Loving Festival Mixed Comedy Hour with Marvin Lee
• 06/09/2017 – Grand Rapids, MI – West Michigan’s Loving Day Celebration 2017
• 06/10/2017 – Los Angeles, CA – Mixed Remixed Festival 2017
• 06/10/2017 – Abilene, TX – PFLAG Abilene/Big Country 3rd Annual National Loving Day Sidewalk March
• 06/10/2017 – San Jose, CA – Loving Day 2017: San Jose
• 06/10/2017 – Paris, France – Loving Day Paris
• 06/10/2017 – Lyon, France – Loving Day Lyon
• 06/10/2017 – Griffin, GA – Loving Day Georgia
• 06/10/2017 – Peachtree Corner, GA – 2nd Annual Red Bridge Society “Loving Day” (Multi-Meetup)
• 06/11/2017 – Cambridge, MA – Loving Day Cambridge – Love Has No Color: A Loving Day Celebration for Kids
• 06/11/2017 – Philadelphia, PA – Philadelphia Family Loving Day 2017
• 06/11/2017 – El Cerrito, CA – City of El Cerrito Loving Day Celebration
• 06/11/2017 – Olivette, MO – Loving Day 50th Anniversary Celebration – St. Louis
• 06/11/2017 – Strasbourg, France – Loving Day Strasbourg
• 06/11/2017 – Denver, CO – 5th Annual Loving Day Celebration
• 06/11/2017 – Chicago, IL – 2017 Loving Day Event – 50th Anniversary
• 06/11/2017 – Mill Valley, CA – Loving Day Party
• 06/11/2017 – Santa Monica, CA – Loving Day in Los Angeles
• 06/11/2017 – New York, NY – Loving and Loving
• 06/12/2017 – Birmingham, AL – The March Quilts: Loving v Virginia
• 06/12/2017 – Cambridge, MA – Loving Day Cambridge – Cambridge Rally
• 06/12/2017 – Houston, TX – Loving Day 50th Anniversary Houston
• 06/12/2017 – Arlington, VA – 50th Anniversary of Loving Day
• 06/12/2017 – Los Angeles, CA – An Act of Love Film Screening
• 06/12/2017 – Washington, DC – Sheryll Cashin Reads #LovingBook on LovingDay at Busboys & Poets, DC
• 06/12/2017 – Paris, France – Loving Day in Paris
• 06/13/2017 – Cambridge, MA – Loving Day Cambridge – One Drop of Love
• 06/15/2017 – Burlington, VT – Loving Day Family Dance Party
• 06/17/2017 – Tokyo, Japan – Loving Day Picnic in Tokyo
• 06/17/2017 – Birmingham, AL – 5th Annual Loving Day Celebration in Alabama
• 06/17/2017 – Idaho Falls, ID – Loving Day Celebration and Progressive Awards Banquet
• 06/17/2017 – Cincinnati, OH – Loving Day Cookout at the Liu’s
• 06/18/2017 – Eugene, OR – Honey’s 50th Loving Day Party

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  Complete list and latest updates:
  http://lovingday.org/find-a-celebration

  No celebration where you live? Host your own!:
  http://lovingday.org/host-a-celebration

Brown is the New White, Steve Phillips

Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority
by Steven Phillips

AlunaGeorge – You Know You Like It

Lyrics

Some people want me to be heads or tails
I say no way, try again, another day
I should be happy, not tipping the scales
I just won’t play letting my life get away

I’m no fool, no, I’m not a follower
I don’t take things as they come
If they bring me down
Life can be cruel if you’re a dreamer
I just wanna have some fun
Don’t tell me what can’t be done

You know you like it but it drives you insane
You know you like it but it drives you insane
You know you like it but you’re scared of the shame
What you want, what you gonna do?
You know you like it but it drives you insane
Follow me cause you know that you wanna feel the same
You know you like it but it drives you insane
What you want, what you gonna do?

If you wanna train me like an animal
Better keep your eye on my every move
There’s no need to be, so damn cruel
Baby you got nothing to prove

I’m no fool, no, I’m not a follower
I don’t take things as they come
If they bring me down
Life can be cruel if you’re a dreamer
I just wanna have some fun
Don’t tell me what can’t be done

You know you like it but it drives you insane
You know you like it but it drives you insane
You know you like it but you’re scared of the shame
What you want, what you gonna do?
You know you like it but it drives you insane
Follow me cause you know that you wanna feel the same
You know you like it but it drives you insane
What you want, what you gonna do?

You know you like it but it drives you insane
You know you like it but it drives you insane
You know you like it but you’re scared of the shame
What you want, what you gonna do?
You know you like it but it drives you insane
Follow me cause you know that you wanna feel the same
You know you like it but it drives you insane
What you want, what you gonna do?

Ed Sheeran – Shape of You [Official Video]

Lyrics
The club isn’t the best place to find a lover
So the bar is where I go
Me and my friends at the table doing shots
Drinking fast and then we talk slow
Come over and start up a conversation with just me
And trust me I’ll give it a chance now
Take my hand, stop, put Van the Man on the jukebox
And then we start to dance, and now I’m singing like

Girl, you know I want your love
Your love was handmade for somebody like me
Come on now, follow my lead
I may be crazy, don’t mind me
Say, boy, let’s not talk too much
Grab on my waist and put that body on me
Come on now, follow my lead
Come, come on now, follow my lead

I’m in love with the shape of you
We push and pull like a magnet do
Although my heart is falling too
I’m in love with your body
And last night you were in my room
And now my bedsheets smell like you
Every day discovering something brand new
I’m in love with your body
Oh—I—oh—I—oh—I—oh—I
I’m in love with your body
Oh—I—oh—I—oh—I—oh—I
I’m in love with your body
Oh—I—oh—I—oh—I—oh—I
I’m in love with your body
Every day discovering something brand new
I’m in love with the shape of you

One week in we let the story begin
We’re going out on our first date
You and me are thrifty, so go all you can eat
Fill up your bag and I fill up a plate
We talk for hours and hours about the sweet and the sour
And how your family is doing okay
Leave and get in a taxi, then kiss in the backseat
Tell the driver make the radio play, and I’m singing like

Girl, you know I want your love
Your love was handmade for somebody like me
Come on now, follow my lead
I may be crazy, don’t mind me
Say, boy, let’s not talk too much
Grab on my waist and put that body on me
Come on now, follow my lead
Come, come on now, follow my lead

I’m in love with the shape of you
We push and pull like a magnet do
Although my heart is falling too
I’m in love with your body
And last night you were in my room
And now my bedsheets smell like you
Every day discovering something brand new
I’m in love with your body
Oh—I—oh—I—oh—I—oh—I
I’m in love with your body
Oh—I—oh—I—oh—I—oh—I
I’m in love with your body
Oh—I—oh—I—oh—I—oh—I
I’m in love with your body
Every day discovering something brand new
I’m in love with the shape of you

Come on, be my baby, come on
Come on, be my baby, come on
Come on, be my baby, come on
Come on, be my baby, come on
Come on, be my baby, come on
Come on, be my baby, come on
Come on, be my baby, come on
Come on, be my baby, come on

I’m in love with the shape of you
We push and pull like a magnet do
Although my heart is falling too
I’m in love with your body
Last night you were in my room
And now my bedsheets smell like you
Every day discovering something brand new
I’m in love with your body
Come on, be my baby, come on
Come on, be my baby, come on
I’m in love with your body
Come on, be my baby, come on
Come on, be my baby, come on
I’m in love with your body
Come on, be my baby, come on
Come on, be my baby, come on
I’m in love with your body
Every day discovering something brand new
I’m in love with the shape of you

Steven F. Riley of mixedracestudies.org

“Steven F. Riley, curator of mixedracestudies.org, joined us for this discussion of mixed race studies, popular culture and the shifting terrain of race and identity.”

deportation raid

Abagond

A deportation raid is where the government comes to your house or place of work to arrest you, jail you and possibly deport you, sending you out of the country. In the US they are carried out by agents of Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), part of Homeland Security.

In a typical raid, there is a knock at the door at four or five in the morning. They say it is the “police”. You open the door and then comes what some describe as:

“the most horrifying moment of their life. Nowhere to run to, no one to scream to for help.”

The ICE agents come into your home. Your children are crying and screaming. ICE is asking you questions, often in bad Spanish. They arrest whoever they feel like – citizen or not (they will sort it out later). They put you in handcuffs in front of your children

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CRITICAL MIXED RACE STUDIES 2017 PROGRAM

Schedule At A Glance Download Full Program PDF

Source: PROGRAM

Our obsession with beauty and looks

1. Our looks and other’s looks
   • height
   • weight
   • shape
   • eyelids
   • eye lashes
   • eye shape
   • eye color
   • nose shape
   • nose width
   • nose length
   • lips fullness
   • teeth straightness
   • teeth whiteness
   • hair texture
   • hair length
   • hair color
   • breasts
   • ass
   • skin color
   • just rightness
2. Our clothes that don’t fit us, don’t match, are too worn out, and too outdated.
3. Fitting in and then wanting to know what race everyone else is and how they fit in.

As much as we don’t want to judge and critique we can’t help ourselves.

2017 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference in LA celebrates 50th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia

LOS ANGELES, CA – The fourth Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, “Explorations in Trans (gender, gressions, migrations, racial) Fifty Years After Loving v. Virginia,” will bring together academics, activists, and artists from across the US and abroad to explore the latest developments in critical mixed race studies. The Conference will be held at The University of Southern California from February 24-26, 2017 at the USC Ronald Tutor Campus Center, 3607 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089 and is hosted by the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture.

The conference will include over 50 panels, roundtables, and caucus sessions organized by the Critical Mixed Race Studies Association as well as feature film screenings and live performances organized by the non-profit Mixed Roots Stories. The conference is pleased to run concurrently with the Hapa Japan Festival February 22- 26, 2017.

Register here

Frances Cress Welsing

Frances Cress Welsing
Psychiatrist

Frances Cress Welsing was an American Afrocentrist psychiatrist. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism, offered her interpretation on the origins of what she described as white supremacy culture. -Wikipedia

Born: March 18, 1935, Chicago, IL
Died: January 2, 2016, Washington, D.C.
Books: The Isis (Yssis) papers
Movies: 500 Years Later
Education: Howard University (1962), Antioch College

In honor of Queen Mother #FrancesCressWelsing Here’s a video of her epic appearance on Phil Donahue https://t.co/8tQmbV83jm

— Ma’at is the truth (@SooSankofa) January 2, 2016