Beautiful Struggle Live

06/23/2024

📢 DID YOU KNOW❓ Neo-segregationists are mobilizing to restore Jim Crow-era privileges for white people and to restrict Black people’s access to the workplace and our education system — and they’re doing it thanks to funding from some of the biggest charities in the country.

Take the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, for example, which since 2020 has given over $400,000 to nonprofits led by and tied to neo-segregationists like Ed Blum, Stephen Miller, Christopher Rufo, and Kris Kobach. In 2022 alone, they even gave $125,000 directly to nonprofits established or led by Ed Blum and Stephen Miller, who are wholly committed to ending affirmative action and eliminating all programs to counter racism. After we raised concerns about their recent donations, Goldman Sachs officials claimed that because of their capital investments in Black women entrepreneurs, it’s OK that they gave $125,000 directly to Blum and Miller's nonprofits. 🙄 Now, the question we’d like Goldman Sachs to answer is this: Exactly how much money do you have to give to BIPOC communities to make up for donating to the Klan?

With these neo-segregationists working overtime off a steady supply of cash from corporate charities, none of our laws that guarantee equality and freedom from discrimination are safe. That’s why we must come together and stop them dead in their tracks by holding these corporate charities accountable. Demand they stop funding a pro-discrimination agenda at coc.is/HoldCharitiesAccountable.

07/29/2023

"If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up - lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well."

11/14/2022

Here is a new animated video for Nina Simone’s beautiful performance of “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free” live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 19...

11/12/2022

in 1914, Daisy Bates was born. Her mother was murdered by 3 white men. Though Daisy was just a child, the trauma led her to a life of working to end racial injustice.

Bates and her husband ran an African American newspaper dedicated to civil rights. She used her newspaper to publicize the issue of segregated schools, and in 1957, she organized the Little Rock Nine.

10/10/2022

I’d like to play with Magie’s rules

Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.

One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.

The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else.

Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.

When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased Magie, they erased the "Prosperity" rules and celebrated "Monopoly". This is why very few games of Monopoly end in better friendships! Some even end friendships! What they couldn't erase was Magie's lesson.

Learn more: FilmsForAction.org

09/11/2022

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.