The Bella Bulletin Newsletter: Black Lives Matter Edition 2020

The Bella Bulletin May 2020

Justice For Breonna Taylor!!

This month’s

Feminist Five BLACK LIVES MATTER Edition

White Fragility

By Robin Diangelo

So You Want To Talk About Race

By Ijeoma Oluo

Between The World And Me

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander

Stamped From The Beginning

By Ibram X. Kendi

THE Voices Of BALI Alumnae The Voices Of BALI Alumnae

Former BALI students took the time to reflect upon the recent tragedies regarding racial injustices in America. In these pieces, you read about their feelings, their pain, but also hope for what the future may hold for both black people in America and their allies.

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Table of Contents Justice For Breonna Taylor…….………..….…….2 The Voices Of BALI Alumnae.....…….…………..…4 Support Black Entertainment…........…..…….. .8 Victims Of Police Brutality……………………..10 Feminist Five!: Black Lives Matter Edition...12 Support The Movement………….………......…....14 #SayTheirNames…………………………………..…15 Looking For Enrichment Opportunities…..…16 BALI Staff………………………………………..……18 BELLA BULLETIN STAFF ………………………….......19

Although I wish this could be a brilliant essay on my thoughts of blackness it’s truly a jumble of thoughts that I’ve been experiencing over these past few weeks amidst everything that has been going on.

In every moment of my life, I am always reminded of my blackness. Which necessarily isn’t a bad thing. I am unapologetically black. I am happy to be black and above all I am proud to be black.

Growing up in America as a Haitian American, there has always been this slight push back by society toAlthough dim myI wish blackness inbe order to toessay get by.

And truly Iofnever understood why, but this could a brilliant on my thoughts blackness it’s truly a jumble of it’s always just beenthoughts something that’s kept over a place thefew back of amidst my mind.

However as been I’ve grown up that I’ve beenalways experiencing theseinpast weeks everything that has going on. and I’ve come into my own ideas and my own beliefs about what it means to be black, I recognize that it is no longer society’s obligation to define who I am. If anything, it is my job to define In every moment of my life, I am always reminded of my blackness. Which necessarily isn’t a bad society. thing. I am unapologetically black. I am happy to be black and above all I am proud to be black.

Growing up in America as a Haitian American, there has always been this slight push back by society to dim blackness in order to getand by. And truly I never why, it’s Bell always I remember being sixmy and watching the to news, hearing aboutunderstood the death of but Sean for the first just been something that’s always kept a place in the back of my mind.

However as I’ve grown up time. Although I was so young at the time I knew what had happened was wrong. I think that was and I’ve come into my own ideas and my own beliefs about what it means to be black, I recognize the first time I recognized my blackness and what it means to be black in America. When I was that it is no longer society’s obligation to define who I am. If anything, it is my job to define twelve, I remember watching the news yet again and seeing the death of Trayvon Martin (a child society. my age, die because he was black). Six years later nothing had changed. I was much older and far I remember six and watching the news, hearing about theand death of Sean Bell for thein first more aware about being the blatant racism that this and country upholds how perpetuates many time.

Although I was so young at the time I knew what had happened was wrong.

I think that was forms especially through the policing of black bodies. By the time I reached high school I the first time I recognized my blackness and what it means to be black in America. When I was remembered seeing the countless hashtags of people who have died at the hands of the police twelve, I remember watching the news yet again and seeing the death of Trayvon Martin (a child just for being black.

And now I’mblack). almost I am againI and I’m am still how my age, die because he was Six twenty. years laterHere nothing hadyet changed. was much older andseeing far the institutionalized racism in the racism legal system, the formation of how the perpetuates police originating more aware about the blatant that this country upholds and in many from the forms especially through the policing of black bodies.

By the time I reached high school slave patrol, and the innate ignorance of those who benefit from ignoring the factI that this seeing the countless hashtags of people who have died at the hands of the police country isremembered built on dehumanizing black life has lead to where we are now. George Floyd, Breonna just for being black. And now I’m almost twenty. Here I am yet again and I’m am still seeing how Taylor Ahmuad Arbery, Niña Pop, Tony McDade and countless others should be alive today. After the institutionalized racism in the legal system, the formation of the police originating from the years of growing upand seeing the same cycle of black lives lost a system thatthat does slave patrol, the innate ignorance of those who benefit fromtoignoring the fact thisnot care about is built on dehumanizing life past has lead where we areused now. my George Floyd, Breonna them I’vecountry had more than enough. So black for the twotoweeks I’ve platform on social media Taylor Ahmuad Arbery, Niña Pop, Tony McDade and countless others should be alive today. to bring attention and teach others about these injustices because the first step is toAfter educate years of growing up seeing the same cycle of black lives lost to a system that does not care about yourself. Because if as a black person, I had to understand blackness and critical race theory to them I’ve had more than enough. So for the past two weeks I’ve used my platform on social media understand whyattention this is happening me and around me, nonthe black people can surely do their to bring and teach others aboutthose these injustices because first step is to educate part to learn.

I’veBecause joinedifprotests, talked my friends, I’ve called out people whotoare innately yourself. as a black I’ve person, I had to to understand blackness and critical race theory why this is happening me vow and those aroundsociety me, non rather black people surelydefine do theirme. racist andunderstand most importantly I made the to define thancan society part to learn. I’ve joined protests, I’ve talked to my friends, I’ve called out people who are innately racist and most importantly I made the vow to define society rather than society define me.

To make this clear however, it is not my job to teach anyone else about everything that’s been happening thisthis country since it’s if teach anything, it’s now theeverything obligation ofbeen everyone else To in make clear however, it isinception not my job to anyone else about that’s to understand what country hasit’sdone to me.

Not the way around. If I can leave happening in this this country since inception if anything, it’sother now the obligation of everyone else a few understand what thismovement country has done to me. Not the other around. If I caninleave a few words to to wrap this up—this is something that hasway been brewing young people since words to wrap this up—this movement is something that has been brewing in young people since we’ve been born. This is the last generation that will be messed with. we’ve been born. This is the last generation that will be messed with.

We are tired, wetired, arewe smart and and aware, and always unapologetic our blackness and We are are smart aware, andwe wewill will always bebe unapologetic in our in blackness and this country recognizes unlearns its its ways revolution continues. until this until country recognizes thatthat andand unlearns waysthe the revolution continues.

~ Samantha Joseph, BALI Class of 2017

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Victims Of Police Brutality

Two Trump Associates Convicted of Financial Crimes in One Day

Diane Rwigara and Mother, Adeline Rwigara Imprisoned After Diane George Floyd Announces her Election Bid for President of Rwanda

This year marks the second annual ​Black Joy Parade in Oakland, California. The parade is celebrated at the end of February to Late at night on March 13th, three Louisville,

commemorate Black History month and fills the officers ​killed Breonna In recent Kentucky weeks, police American news outlets Taylor have streets with Black owned businesses, vendors, after forcibly entering her the house under a been saturated with articles about ​conviction games, and music. Elisha Greenwell, founder of “​no-knock and warrant​ .” The police were of Paul Manafort Michael Cohen​officers , Trump’s the Black Joy parade, started this tradition conducting a narcotics investigation, and former campaign chairman and former lawyer, because she saw a need for Black folks in her although suspected drugs were being respectively, forthey to financial the crimes.

Michael community gather not only in moments of sold from alongtime house far away from Taylor’s Cohen, Trump’s

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lawyer protest, but in moments of celebration as well. believed that one of their pleaded residence, guilty tothey eight federal accounts, Furthermore, the parade symbolizes a was finance using Taylor’s house that to receive including suspects campaign

violations were reclamation of space in an area that has been packages. Under the “no-knock” warrant, the made in an attempt to gentrification quiet Stephanie Clifford fighting against since the 1970’s. police officers were not required to knock or (Stormy Daniels) and Karen McDougal about identify themselves as police officers before their extramarital affairs with Donald Trump entering the household. After the police officers with “hush money.” But not only did Cohen used a battering ram to barge into Taylor’s come clean about his own criminal acts, he also house, Kenneth Walker, Taylor’s boyfriend, implicated Trump in the process by stating that fired his gun out of self-defense. The police the payments made to Clifford and McDougal officers then proceeded to release fire into the were Trump’s orders. may also Taylor further bedroom where Cohen they shot Breonna at implicate least Trump in the future with his supposed 8 times.

Walker, having mildly injured one Carl Court/Getty knowledge “​the a conspiracy to was corrupt American of policeImages officers, charged with the The stakes around the world have been risingto as democracy by the murder Russians, and the failure attempted of a police officer, but this the ​coronavirus (COVID-19) ​grows into a bigger report thatcharge knowledge to the FBI” according to was dropped a month after the incident. threat.

Known cases have been reported from his lawyer Lanny Davis.

While27 Trump as Taylor, who would have turned on June 5th, dozens of countries, but the most severe ostracizedwas Michael Cohen for pleading guilty, a Black, female, emergency room outbreaks have been located in China, Iran, the president has who loyally defended his former technician dreamed of becoming a nurse Italy, and South Korea. With 977 confirmed campaignand chairman Manafort, who has starting aPaul family.

Her family members, cases, South Korea has the most infected devastated the loss, filed rongful death been charged withfrom eight counts ofa ​wbank fraud, patients outside of China and Italy has been the against the In addition, tax fraud,lawsuit and failure to police reportofficers. a foreign bank source of most infected patients throughout FBI’s Louisville an account. The His conviction is a office result started of Robert Europe.

According to officials, it is inevitable of Taylor’s death on May 21st.

Mueller’sinvestigation investigation into connections that coronavirus will spread in the United The Trump three officers, however, are stillStates on between the campaign and the Russian as well causing tensions about resources and administrative leave and and have not been charged government.

Both Cohen Manafort have yet government action to rise. of any crimes. to be sentenced.

This month, the Scottish Parliament took a huge step to being the first country in the world to make ​period products free for all those who On May 25, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black need them. The Period Products (Free man was ​suffocated to death by a white Provision) (Scotland) Bill was introduced by Minneapolis police officer named Derek Parliament member Monica Lennon, who first

Chauvin. Floyd was arrested after a convenience proposed it in 2017.

The bill has now moved In employee August called of 911 2017, Diane Rwigara was store to report a suspicion onto the second stage in parliament in which becoming aused voice for the underrepresented,

that Floyd had a counterfeit 20 dollar-bill members may propose amendments to it. people ofof Rwanda; daring to hold toyoung purchase a pack cigarettes. Chauvin Although there is a long way to go until this bill PresidentFloyd

Paul Kagame’s into government handcuffed and pinned his knee becomes law, its introduction to parliament accountable fora cop corruption, censorship, and Floyd’s neck next to car for 8 minutes and alone has helped dismantle taboos about Shortly after her tocampaign was 46poverty. seconds. Floyd pleaded for Chauvin stop, discussing menstrual health. announced, however, she kept was his disqualified from saying “I can’t breathe.”

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The politically motivated. Rwigara’s arrest comes as between 1.1 millionnext and court 1.7 million residents. ex-police officer’s appearance is no surprise to many, however, because she is Beginning with the 3/5ths compromise, this scheduled for June 29th. The other three one

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Breonna Taylor

Victims Of Police Brutality

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Persepolis is an autobiographical graphic novel written by Marjane

Satrapi. The book was originally published in French and has sold Maya Angelou was born on 4th,Times 1924bestseller, in St.Ijeoma Louis, This but In thisApril ​New York OluoMissouri. offers a hard-hitting millions of copies and has been translated into several languages. The user-friendly examination of race in America. month (her birthday month) honorchildhood her lifeandand work.in Iran during the story we’ll follows Satrapi’s upbringing

Hunger is a memoir written by Roxane Gay. It was published on June 13th, 2017 Islamic Revolution. The title references the ancient capital of the Maya Angelou was anreporting African American poet, singer,white memoirist and civil rights activist.

Widespread on aspects supremacy--from police Persian empire.

Theiand book was on of the American Library Association’s and it is 320 pages long. unger s a personal account of Roxane Gay’s life, largely She has authored plays,Hmovies television shows in addition to poetry books and severalbrutality autobiographies.

Her first autobiography, Know Why the Caged put Bird aSings” to the incarceration of “I Black Americans--has media list of Top Tenmass Most Challenged Books in 2014. consumed by her weight. She addresses her experience of living in a body without

details her upbringing in the south up to being a teenager. This book brought her Satrapi was inspired theher graphic asdifficult her medium to tell the on racism in to ourusesociety.

Still, novel itand is aexperiences. subject to talk critical spotlight acclaim and international praise for writing control of her size, and lacking the discipline that society encourages women to have

story to useher jokes herare racist? talents images takeand words. about. Howindo youorder tell your roommate didwith your sister-in-law umbrage when Her full name was Marguerite AnnieWhy Johnson.

Her older brother nicknamed her Mya. over their bodies. She goes through encounters with her body from a childhood When her parents separated, she was sent to live in Stamps, Arkansas. She lived with

you asked to touch her hair--and how do you make it right? How do you explain white privilege to your white, shaken by sexual assault, her 20s, which she calls her “lost years”, and becoming an her paternal grandmother, who owned a general store and did well economically though it was the Great Depression. Angelou briefly lived with her mother. She was privileged friend? established writer. We follow her as the trauma she was subjected to at 12 years old, follows her relationship sexually abused by her mother’s boyfriend. After this experience she became mute for nearly five years. She moved again to introduces Oakland withherself her mother andyear her brother.

He attended labor school and themiddle first cable carfamily conductor Satrapi as a 10 old in Iran in 1980. aShe belonged to became an upper class with with her body until adulthood. She ate to cope with her sorrow and to protect herself from being hurt. She in San Francisco.

access to Western music, politics and art. She participated in protests against the Shah and witnessed his exile. believed that if she shrouded herself with weight, perhaps she would be so intolerable that she would ultimately

She had many her younginadulthood. was a fryin cook, a sexespecially worker, a nightclub and performer, Despite this, professions the impactinresulted religious She extremism society coveringdancer women’s bodies anda cast member of the opera ​Porgy and Bess​,​ a​ nd a coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She also be free of male dominion over her body. Hunger is the story of being overweight when “the bigger you are, the In ​So In You to 2, Talk About Race​,taking Ijeomarefuge Oluo guides readers all races through subjects from worked hair. asPersepolis aWant journalist in she Ghana. describes in Vienna, and of having to fend for herself in ranging a new place.

smaller your world becomes.”Her story is deeply personal, making a political statement about expectations of Persepolis 1 and 2 in are artistic representations of living in in a nature turbulent with political intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" an attempt to make thequestionable seemingly impossible Angelou’s work is held high esteem because of the groundbreaking of hersociety memoir writing.

This shifted the way womanhood and gender, sexuality, trauma and hope. We learn how her body has “informed” her feminism and African American women publicly discussed their personal lives. It also helped increase black feminist writings in the possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American 1970s. taught her about the greater machines of society demonizing fat bodies and that work so hard to produce life. unrealistic standards that we hunger for.

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“When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else's oppression, we'll find our opportunities to make real change.” ― Ijeoma Oluo

"Simply put: Ijeoma Oluo is a necessary voice and intellectual for these

times, and any time, truth be told. Her ability to write so smartly and honestly with strokes of humor about race in America is heaven sent and demonstrates just how desperately we all need to be talking about race, and perhaps, more importantly, this insightful book shows those in power or privilege how they need to listen."—Phoebe Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of You Can't Touch My Hair and Everything's Trash, But It's Okay "What Ijeoma Oluo has done, and continues to do, is nothing short of revolutionary -- she has created a conversational guide and laid out a movement-building blueprint for people of all races who are invested in self-assessment, open to being challenged, and committed to collective progress. One of the most important voices of our time, Oluo encourages us to be the conversation starters in our own lives and to keep talking -someone who needs to hear us is listening."—Feminista Jones, author of Reclaiming Our Space "I don't think I've ever seen a writer have such an instant, visceral, electric impact on readers. Ijeoma Oluo's intellectual clarity and moral sure-footedness make her the kind of unstoppable force that obliterates the very concept of immovable objects."—Lindy West, New York Times-bestselling author of Shrill "With this book, Ijeoma Oluo gives us -- both white people and people of color -- that language to engage in clear, constructive, and confident dialogue with each other about how to deal with racial prejudices and biases."

—National Book Review "Read it, then recommend it to everyone you know."—Harper's Bazaar, "One of 10 Books to Read in 2018"

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Support The Movement

Places to sign, donate, text, call, protest, etc.

Petitions For Education Reform Justice For Breonna Taylor 30 BLM Petitions You Should Sign Right Now List of Black-Owned Restauarants in NYC to Support 125 Black-Owned Businesses to Support Right Now EDUCATE YOURSELF AND OTHERS! 14

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American Museum of Natural History​ various teen programs run through the American Museum of

Black Natural Girls Code Historyoffers programming and events in coding for African American girls.

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ChickTech offers programming and mentorship in STEM for high school girls.

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CuriousJane Janeoffers offersclasses classesand andsummer summer programming programming in Curious in science, science,theatre, theatre,arts artsand andcrafts, crafts, and more for girls. and more for girls.

Columbia University​ pre-college programs for high school students run through Columbia University.

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LOVE Mentoring works at high schools to deliver small‑group mentoring for young Latinas.

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Life is Precious offers individual and groups counseling, arts therapy, academic support, and nutritional

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Lower Eastside Girls Club provides programming in STEM, business, art, leadership, and advocacy, as

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Northeast Regional Alliance (NERA) MedPrep Program a preparatory program for students between

NYC GREAT! offers programming and mentoring in college and career readiness for high junior high and college who wish to pursue careers in the medical field. The NERA MedPrep program has school girls. partnerships with five medical institutions including the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

NYU GSTEM is a six-week summer program for high school girls during the summer between

their junior and senior years who have high aptitude in STEM subjects.

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Powerplay NYC works in elementary, middle, and high schools to offer afterschool NYU GSTEM is a six‑week summer program for high school girls during the summer between their junior programming in physical activity and healthy living. and senior years who have high aptitude in STEM subjects.

Sadie Nash Leadership Project provides afterschool and summer programming in leadership Powerplay NYC works in elementary, middle, and high schools to offer after‑school programming in and social justice for girls ages 14-22. physical activity and healthy living.

Soul Sisters Leadership Collective works in schools to offer workshops to explore issues Soul Sisters Leadership Collective works in schools to offer workshops to explore issues faced by young faced bywomen of color. young women of color.

Vibe Theatre Experience offers theatre and a free summer enrichment program for college students media programming for girls ages 13-19.

Summer Health Professions Education Program pursuing health professions.

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The Whitney Museum of Art arts programs and events for teens at the Whitney Museum of American

YWCA provides programming in leadership and advocacy, STEAM, career and college Art. exploration, and more for girls.

Vibe Theatre Experience offers theatre and media programming for girls ages 13‑19.

Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls offers after‑school and summer music programming for girls.

Young Women's Christian Association an organization that informs women on societal issues that affect them and encourages them to vote

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