Sikivu Hutchinson
feminist/humanist,novelist, author of Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics & Values Wars, White Nights, Black Paradise & Rock n' Roll Heretic due 2018
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Black Teachers Buck Beutner’s Billionaire Boys Club
Sikivu Hutchinson - LA Progressive 24d 1 tweets
Sikivu Hutchinson: A recent study on Black student achievement found that Black students who had just one Black teacher by third grade were 13% more likely to go to college. Those who had two Black teachers were 32% more likely.
Blog
Women's Leadership Project 5d 1 tweets
Sikivu Hutchinson Original poetry & prose from youth poets 12th grade Black freethinker/atheist Cheyanne Mclaren "Letter to My Future" 5d
Spotlight
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Sikivu Hutchinson New interview on her visionary doc: "NO! exists because of work &activism that precedes it by centuries. I provided a visual chronology of some of the radical, Black feminist anti-rape herstory from enslavement through the 2000s" 5d
20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms
Robert Downen - Houston Chronicle 12d 62 tweets
As leaders decline to act, the numbers grow. In the past 20 years, about 380 Southern Baptist church leaders and volunteers have faced allegations of sexual misconduct, the newspapers found. They were pastors. Deacons. Ministers. Youth pastors....
Sikivu Hutchinson Predator haven #SouthernBaptistConvention HARBORED, cosigned and propped up sexual abuser pastors while persecuting & expelling "sinful" LGBTQ pastors: "20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms" 10d
Sikivu Hutchinson According to one study 90% of sexual predators identify as religious, churches are the easiest places to "hide in plain sight" #southernbaptistconventionpredators 10d
Imagine This Women's Girl Power Film + Media Summit and Showcase
FilmFreeway 21d 1 tweets
 In celebration of Women's History Month, Imagine This Women's International Film Festival is proud to announce Girl Power Film + Media Summit and Showcase t...
Sikivu Hutchinson Submitted my films #WhiteNightsBlackParadise & Grinning Skull to Women's Film Fest, featuring 50 plus Black women protagonists on labor organizing & transit politics 21d
LA Board Set To Reprimand Sheriff For Rehiring Fired Deputy
Losangeles.cbslocal.com 23d 1 tweets
Deputy Sheriff Caren Mandoyan was fired in 2016 over allegations of domestic abuse.
Sikivu Hutchinson Why LAC is a cesspit: Dirty/corrupt Alex Villenueva rehires a FIRED deputy and known domestic abuser then smears & victim shames his accuser and all LAC Board members & Company do is reprimand him 23d
‘Leaving Neverland’ Director Responds to Jackson Estate’s Criticism
EBONY 23d 1 tweets
'Leaving Neverland' director Dan Reed has responded to Michael Jackson's estate calling his film 'tabloid character assassination.'
Sikivu Hutchinson For those Black folk defending #MichaelJackson: Like serial abuser & sexual harasser Clarence Thomas the "Jackson estate" is basically cosigning child abuse & sexual predation by victim blaming, playing the "public lynching" race card when it's convenient 23d
Effects of L.A. teachers' strike ripple across California and beyond
latimes.com 26d 1 tweets
The strike at L.A. Unified is over but still fueling a conversation about funding, charter schools, class sizes and social inequities across California and beyond.
Elite LAPD unit disproportionately stopped black drivers, data show
latimes.com 29d 5 tweets
Black drivers bear the brunt of an LAPD crackdown in South L.A. by its elite Metro division. Metro officers stop African American drivers at a rate more than five times their share of the city’s population, according to a Times analysis.
Sikivu Hutchinson Racist "Stop-and-frisk in a car" African Americans 49% of those pulled over by "elite" LAPD Metro unit overall, 65% of those stopped in South L.A.. Metro stops Black drivers 13 times more than white drivers 26d
Gavin Newsom sues Huntington Beach over affordable housing | The Sacramento Bee
sacbee 27d 1 tweets
Wealthy Huntington Beach in Orange Coutny is facing a lawsuit from California Gov. Gavin Newsom that alleges its housing plans lack options for low-income residents.
Sikivu Hutchinson Finally, white elite in Huntington Beach to be held accountable for fueling homeless crisis 'Gavin Newsom takes wealthy Southern California city to court over its lack of housing' 27d
Plays 411 - Mid-Wilshire - Los Angeles, CA
Yelp 27d 1 tweets
Performing Arts in Los Angeles, CA
Sikivu Hutchinson Theater producers& #LATHTR community BEWARE: . has a history of stiffing #Indy producers. Still waiting to receive settlement for my production #WhiteNightsBlackParadise which packed Others have gone months w/out payment 27d
White Nights, Black Paradise: The Play, Trailer
YouTube 27d 1 tweets
White Nights, Black Paradise 2018 limited run production at The Hudson Theatre on Black women, Peoples Temple and Jonestown, written and produced by Sikivu H...
Sikivu Hutchinson Next Stop SF/Bay Area #WhiteNightsBlackParadise: The Play, Trailer is up! Thanks to all our supporters who wrote reviews&articles supporting this #LATHTR Black-woman powered #Indy production of 18+ cast& crew 27d
Ask An Atheist
1A - 1A 35d 5 tweets
One nation, not under God.
World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam
the Guardian 32d 60 tweets
Charity calls for 1% wealth tax, saying it would raise enough to educate every child not in school
Sikivu Hutchinson “26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the planet’s population.” 32d
The Radical Organizing that Paved the Way for LA’s Teacher’s Strike
The Nation 34d 2 tweets
In 2014, a progressive Union Power caucus took over the UTLA—and that has made all the difference.
Tell DA Jackie Lacey to Prosecute Ed Buck in the Death of Timothy Dean
ColorOfChange.org 35d 1 tweets
Atheist Experience 23.03 with Tracie Harris & Mandisa Thomas
YouTube 34d 3 tweets
Black Teachers Buck Beutner’s Billionaire Boys Club
Blackfemlens.blogspot.com 35d 1 tweets
By Sikivu Hutchinson* While thousands of L.A. teachers, students, parents, caregivers and supporters took to the rain-soake...
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Sikivu Hutchinson Black Teachers Speak Out Day5 of #UTLAStrike My latest "Black Teachers Buck Beutner’s Billionaire Boys Club" They are in the trenches of a district that has become a national symbol for the crippling effect of urban apartheid&disinvestment 35d
Looting Public Education for the One Percent: Support the UTLA Resistance
Sikivu Hutchinson - LA Progressive 42d 1 tweets
Sikivu Hutchinson: When the pro-charter LAUSD school board majority appointed investment banker Austin Beutner to superintendent earlier this year it effectively declared war on schools of color and communities of color.
Sikivu Hutchinson My Dec piece "Looting Public Education for the One Per Cent: Support the Resistance" With district lavishing billions on police, charters & admin salaries, parents & students fighting for racial&gender justice are #UTLAstrike ready 42d
Cyntoia Brown case: Governor Haslam grants clemency
WTVF 46d 1 tweets
Governor Bill Haslam has granted executive clemency to Cyntoia Brown by commuting her life sentence.