Letters for Black Lives: An Open Letter Project on Anti-Blackness.
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To our beloved families—We need to talk about anti-Blackness in our own homes because #blacklivesmatter.
The first twenty-six languages of the new #LettersforBlackLives are up 👇🏼
lettersforblacklives.com/202…
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Black Lives Matter.
How did translators of the Letters for Black Lives project carry this brief and impactful statement across language? Read from translators of the Lao, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Chinese, Bengali, and Hindi letters on The Margins today
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1. Partner and relate
2. Listen and learn
3. Show up
4. Engage
5. Internally Reflect
@LettersForBL #AsianAmerican #Racism
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It was an honor to see this air at the #DNCConvention today. #BlackLivesMatter isn't just a moment, but a movement that we must carry on in our AAPI communities. This is the first of a series of videos in different Asian languages to help overcome linguistic barriers. #AllofUs
Our Hungarian translation team just published their letter lettersforblacklives.com/any…
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New episode! We explore the story of how hundreds of people came together from all around the world to work on @LettersForBL, translated into 40+ languages to help folks start talking to their families and communities about supporting Black lives. asianamericana.com/podcast/2…
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If you’re on Japanese time, I’ll be on a panel to chat with students at Kyoto Seika University about @LettersForBL and Asian solidarity with Black Lives Matter at 1800–2000 JST! kyoto-seika.ac.jp/news/2020/…
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I spoke with @people_and_co about @LettersForBL and tackling anti-Blackness in your community.
If you're looking for a new podcast recommendation, give it a listen here --> gettogether.fm/episodes/lett…
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@LettersForBL is back because the conversations we started in 2016 need a new life. The #bangla #Bengali version that I worked on, with a ton of other people, online and I encourage you to use this resource to start a conversation with your families.
bit.ly/2MGC9Eg
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In collaboration with Letters for Black Lives, I have had the honor of working with an amazing team in translating this letter to Lao. In Solidarity. @LettersForBL #blacklivesmatter #lettersforblacklives #Lao4BlackLives
bit.ly/2MFKxE6
Six new letters published tonight—Hindi, Kannada, Romanian, Serbian and Vietnamese (US) and Chinese Simplified (Canadian)—we are now up to 45 US translations, 3 Canadian—with possibly a few more to go
lettersforblacklives.com/202…
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I worked with a team of other Kannadigas in the US to translate the 2020 version of Letters for Black Lives into Kannada. #BlackLivesMatter #kannada @tv9kannada @darshanMark
ಅಮ್ಮ, ಅಪ್ಪ, ಅಂಕಲ್, ಆಂಟಿ, ಅಜ್ಜಿ, ತಾತ: by @LettersForBL link.medium.com/YDLBUCVTv7
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⭐️ED PICK: Breath- BLM Mix by J.Lang ccmixter.org/files/djlang59/…
Powerful downtempo track with a message. @JLang59's remix includes spoken word by @LettersForBL, @spinningmerkaba field recordings of Oxnard CA #BlackLivesMatter protest, & the verse putting all together by Mikey D.
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We have so many new editions out this week including the
- Canadian Korean medium.com/p/ce5c40b35493
- Canadian Persian medium.com/p/7faa1e20f482
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