Congratulations to Blackout For Human Rights’ members Ava DuVernay, David Oyelowo and Bradford

Congratulations to Blackout For Human Rights’ members Ava DuVernay, David Oyelowo and Bradford Young on winning Outstanding Motion Picture and Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture for Selma at the 46th NAACP Image Awards last night: http://bit.ly/16TmbzZ“It was 60 years ago that Emmett Till was murdered for the crime of being black. The loss of this black life activated a new energy and mobilized the civil rights movement. Since then we have endured many moments of injustice and inhumanity, of violence against our people. It happened to Jimmy Lee Jackson in 1965, to Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis in 2012, to Eric Garner, and Mike Brown just last year. It happens every single day. The indignities and the humiliations, the emotional violence, and the physical violations, the death. And it has got to end. But how? Dr. King believed that the cure was love. The cure against disease, of racism and oppression, love. That out of pain can come hope. Out of anger can come change. Out of despair can come community. People of every color are now committed to the idea that black lives matter. People of all colors now know that we shall overcome. And so we must remain focused. We must remain diligent. And in order to triumph, we must remain clear about what’s really going on.” Ava DuVernay at the 46th NAACP Image Awards last night: http://eonli.ne/1IpN8Mo -- source link

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