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Cops Over-Policing Black People to Death. STDDs, Week 48
28 Year-Old Sandra Bland Died While in Police Custody. Two weeks ago Sandra Bland was a beautiful, vibrant, sassy, knowledgeable, strong, college-educated young woman on her way to a good job at her...
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She will be buried today. Rest in Peace, Sandra
Rest in Peace, dear Sandra.Hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday at the suburban Chicago church that Sandra Bland attended for many of her 28 years, turning out in such numbers that even the overflow...
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The Michael Brown Over-Policed Rights Act @BlackLivesMatter @HillaryClinton...
After the Michael Brown murder in Ferguson, the Daily Kos group Support the Dream Defenders crowd-sourced a law to protect people from the scourge of over-policing. Over 700 members of the Daily...
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Let's Throw a Party for Denise. It's her birthday!
DailyKos for me would not be the same without Denise Oliver Velez. Without her presence on The Porch. Without her Sunday morning columns. Without her leadership. Without her knowledge. Without her...
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Kansas Surrenders! MBOPRA #BlackLivesMatter #LetOurPoorPeopleLive. STDDs,...
Fifty weeks! Fifty weeks since we decided that chronicling injustice cannot be enough. Fifty weeks since we decided that in addition to protests, and popular appeal, and voting we also needed to use...
View ArticleI Support Shaun King!
I do not care what earth-shattering evidence they claim to have uncovered.I do not care about his race. If he says he's black, then as far as I'm concerned, he's black. You do not get to have it both...
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Take Legal Action Against Police Killings. #BlackLivesMatter. STDDs, Week 52
Mansur Ball-Bey, the St. Louis teen known as Man-Man ... alive and well.18 year-old Mansur Ball-Bey became the 743th person to be killed by police this year. The teenager was the 64th person to be...
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My mother either voluntarily gave me up at birth, or allowed my father's powerful family to take me from her; either way, the result is that I have always had a feeling of abandonment and as if I don't...
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President Obama: "The African-American community is not just making this up."
The President of the United States, Barack Obama, just told us that there are legitimate reasons for us to be more than a little upset with the status quo.Speaking at forum for criminal justice at the...
View ArticleDepressing...
The new site gives me a headache. It's downright depressing. I am just now realizing how comforting it has been to click on the site. Indeed, of late, it has been more than just comforting; it has been...
View ArticleWhen a President has had enough!
Viewers of Cable News had a real choice this evening: they could watch the antics of the carnival barker-in-chief, Donald Trump, on liberal MSNBC, or they could watch President Obama as he attempts to...
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Update on Our California Ballot Initiative [STDDs 2016]
We need your help to fight for racial justice. The goal of the Daily Kos group Support the Dream Defenders is to place our Over-Policed Rights Act on the ballot in California, and we have made good...
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The Over-Policed Rights Act of California: Let's Save Some Lives
There was once a time in our history when law and order types used lynching as a tool to keep a segment of the population in line. Back then, those targeted weren’t taken to courts and given a chance...
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From Injustices to Justice: Support the Dream Defenders - Weekly Update
Every now and again you read something so monumentally, mind-blowingly, disgustingly unjust that words simply fail you. Such was the case when we saw this:Cleveland Wants Tamir Rice Estate to Pay $500...
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Wait on Giuliani to "Work on" Police Brutality? Hell No! StDD Action Diary
Patriarch Giuliani is having another fit. Queen Bey sang and danced and rescued the Super Bowl Halftime show and the good mayor has never seen anything quite so outrageous. Why won’t black folks sing...
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What the hell is going on here? Policing without honor is what this is. #BLM...
In the seven days since our last diary, 31 more Americans have been killed by police. Yes, you read that right. Thirty-one killings in one week, which brings the total since the start of the year to...
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The Killings Continue (StDD) Update on our California Ballot Initiative
These are exciting times. For political junkies, social scientists, and sports enthusiasts these are the days that they live for. The days are so action-packed that CNN sees no need to take down its...
View ArticleDid you see that?! Shame on you, MSNBC!
MSNBC interrupted Sec Hillary Clinton’s speech this evening and did not go back to her. While CNN carried Mrs Clinton’s speech, MSNBC cut away after about 2 minutes. But she was the lucky one; they...
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Politicians talk, but we must act (STDDs)
I have no faith that politicians will do much, if anything, to tackle police violence against the defenseless. Let’s face it, politicians — like prosecutors — have neither the inclination nor the...
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President Bill Clinton: "We need police reform, BUT ..."! #STDDs...
“I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.” ― Jean-Paul SartreExtremist media, led by Fox, have been determinedly advancing the narrative that...
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