Jul 26, 2024
CONTENT WARNING: Recent Sonya Lynaye
Wilburn-Massey Police Murder + Racially Motivated
Murder of Anthony Walker.
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In this week's Black World News, Kehinde
Andrews makes plain three news items. Firstly the recent unlawful
murder of Sonya
Massey by the police for no reason; and the need to
center Black women killed by the police too (#SAYHERNAME).
Secondly, he makes plain that Jamaica (and the
Caribbean) is a prison colony. Third, he makes plain that
probable presidential nominee Kamala Harris is not
the solution to our problems; she's a Black face in a high place
(#WhiteHouseNegro). She has no program, no solution, and will not
do anything for Black people because the US president by design
can't do anything for Black people.
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In this week's Black United Front interview,
Kehinde Andrews talks with Dominque Walker, an
ex-police officer, about Dominque's far-reaching abolitionist and
antiracist work, particularly with the antiracist charity
Anthony Walker Foundation. Her work in academic
spaces as a lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University
and with The Goddess Project, a Black women's
group. They talk about Dominque's experiences of racism and sense
of safety living and growing up in Liverpool in White-majority and
Black & Brown-majority areas.
In 2005, when Dominque was 19, her brother Anthony Walker, 18, from
Huyton, Liverpool, was brutally murdered by two White males Paul
Taylor and Michael Barton on July 30, 2005. It was a racially
motivated axe attack as Anthony walked with his cousin and his
White girlfriend across McGoldrick Park in Huyton (a predominantly
White area), Liverpool. In response, they, including her mum, Dr
Gee Walker, founded the Anthony Walker
Foundation to tackle racism, hate crime, and
discrimination by providing educational opportunities, providing
victim support services, and promoting equity and inclusion for
all. They discuss the aftermath and the journey toward justice,
which ultimately goes on until the offenders die and the
trauma.
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Dominique Walker is a mum from Liverpool born and
raised; chair of the antiracist charity Anthony Walker Foundation (20 years
in inception); co-founder of the Goddess Project a project that
celebrates and centers Black women in Liverpool (with about 100
women involved); lecturer in Criminology and Policing
Studies at the School of Justice at Liverpool John Moores
University; and a PhD
student (dissertation: Abolish Hate Crime Policing). For
11 years she was a hate crime and domestic violence detective with
the Merseyside Police Protecting Vulnerable People Sigma Hate Crime
Investigations unit.
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BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
Black women-led stream gets 90K viewers, raises $1.5M US for Kamala
Harris in a few hours
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/kamala-harris-black-women-zoom-1.7273791
Everything we know about the Sonya Massey
shooting
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sonia-massey-police-shooting-mental-illness-b2585416.html
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#SayHerName Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public
Silence
by Kimberlé
Crenshaw and African American Policy Forum,
Foreword by Janelle Monáe
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1632-sayhername#:~:text=%22Reading%20%23SayHerName%20is%20an%20act,%2C%20a%20family%2C%20a%20community.
#SAYHERNAME | AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM | BLACK WOMEN ARE
KILLED BY POLICE TOO
https://www.aapf.org/sayhername
International Slavery Museum
https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/international-slavery-museum
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GUEST + BUF LINKS
Anthony Walker: A life that left a legacy
https://archive.voice-online.co.uk/article/anthony-walker-life-left-legacy
Anthony Walker Foundation Linktree
https://linktr.ee/awf19872005
Anthony Walker Foundation
https://anthonywalkerfoundation.com/
The Goddess Projects
https://www.facebook.com/thegoddessprojects1
Dominique Walker - Staff Profile - Liverpool John Moores
University
School of Justice Studies Faculty of
Arts Professional and Social Studies
https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/faculty-of-arts-professional-and-social-studies/school-of-justice-studies/dominique-walker
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THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU
Harambee Organisation of Black Unity
(Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library,
Birmingham, UK)
https://www.blackunity.org.uk/
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19,
2025 (Everyone's Welcome)
On Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of
Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora
who want to fulfill Malcolm’s legacy and build a global
organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to
anyone.
https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
BUF - Black United Front
Global directory of
Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge
so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address,
website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be
listed.
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BUF Guest + Orgs Links: (IG) @thegoddessprojects @anthonywalkerfoundation (X)
@awf_liverpool + @Thegoddessproj1 (F) thegoddessprojects
BUF Guest Email: D.V.Walker@ljmu.ac.uk
Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck
@inhisownterms @farafinmuso
Platform: www.make-it-plain.org (Blog) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 (YT)
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For any help with your audio visit: https://weylandmck.com/
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Make it Plain is
the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black
Unity