S2 EP5 · BLACK WORLD NEWS: Sonya Massey (#SayHerName), Jamaica's a Prison Colony, Kamala Harris Nomination · DOMINIQUE WALKER (BUF): Ex Police Officer, Abolishing the Police, Anthony Walker Foundation, Goddess Project + More
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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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Make it Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity
