feminist/humanist,novelist, author of Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics & Values Wars, White Nights, Black Paradise & Rock n' Roll Heretic due 2018
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.
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 HutchinsonPredator 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"
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Sikivu HutchinsonAccording to one study 90% of sexual predators identify as religious, churches are the easiest places to "hide in plain sight" bit.ly/2IgMwQ2 #southernbaptistconventionpredators
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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...
Deputy Sheriff Caren Mandoyan was fired in 2016 over allegations of domestic abuse.
Sikivu HutchinsonWhy LAC is a cesspit: Dirty/corrupt @lacountysheriff Alex Villenueva rehires a FIRED deputy and known domestic abuser then smears & victim shames his accuser and all LAC Board members @SheilaKuehl & Company do is reprimand him
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'Leaving Neverland' director Dan Reed has responded to Michael Jackson's estate calling his film 'tabloid character assassination.'
Sikivu HutchinsonFor 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
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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.
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 HutchinsonRacist "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
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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 HutchinsonFinally, 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'
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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...
By Sikivu Hutchinson* While thousands of L.A. teachers, students, parents, caregivers and supporters took to the rain-soake...
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Sikivu HutchinsonBlack Teachers Speak Out Day5 of #UTLAStrike My latest @blackfemlens "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
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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 HutchinsonMy Dec piece @LAProgressive "Looting Public Education for the One Per Cent: Support the @UTLAnow Resistance" laprogressive.com/utla-resistanc…
With district lavishing billions on police, charters & admin salaries, parents & students fighting for racial&gender justice are #UTLAstrike ready
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