Justice for Jamar Clark and Loreal Tsingine. #BLM #StDD
The city of Minneapolis did not deviate from the script in the matter of the killing of Jamar Clark. In what has become a morbid ritual, each player in the sick, murderous drama clung to their...
View Article“The next decade in law enforcement will be the most important we have ever...
I needed to see if the protests and sit-ins, the marches and speeches, the blogs and tweets, the anguish and tears over the last couple years have had any impact on police and policing. To see whether...
View ArticleListen up, this 10-year-old has something to say about the justice system
Young debater explains how the criminal justice system works: “The justice system is really not fair because the average person that’s wealthy can easily pay their way out of prison,” the young mind...
View ArticleToy Guns Were not Intended for Little Black Hands
Listen up, Black Mothers: This is of the utmost importance! It is full time you realize that toy guns were never meant for your children! The billion dollar toy gun industry may target you to get your...
View ArticleLive Blog for President Obama's Final White House Correspondents' Dinner
As President Barack Obama polishes his final -- tart-tongued stand-up riff for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, Washington is salivating at the prospect of a sequel to his blistering...
View ArticleThank you, MSNBC! Thank you, CNN! For Donald$#@#Trump!
Donald Trump received nearly $2 billion in free media exposure this past year, dwarfing his Republican rivals and more than doubling the attention paid to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton,...
View ArticleHe murdered Trayvon, and now he seeks to auction the bloody gun
How does one even begin to process the news that george-fucking-zimmerman plans to auction off the gun that he used to murder Trayvon?In the auction description, Zimmerman calls the gun “a piece of...
View ArticleI disagreed with President Obama, and then I agreed with him #BLM #StDDs
Well, not disagree, exactly, but I do believe that we cannot let the record stand as the President left it.Last month, President Obama sat down with Time Magazine to talk about a whole range of issues...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Symone Marshall? #STDDs #BLM
A 22-year-old young woman had an accident on a major highway on April 26. She told her sister that she was run off the road by a truck driver (there’s some question as to whether this was racially...
View Article"You tell me where we’re going to get it [justice] in our country?”
In an attempt to calm and reassure her city after the death of Freddie Gray, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake asked this question:“If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different...
View ArticleDishonest District Attorneys stand in the way of justice
It has been documented time and again that it is District Attorneys and their offices that have stood in the way of justice for victims of police brutality.“Prosecutors work with police day in, day...
View ArticleNo gun, no knife, but yet shot and killed in front of his wife and kids. #BLM...
This is just unacceptable, cruel and immoral on so many different levels. C’mon, now.The number of people killed by police now stands at 432. Fifteen people killed in the last 7 days. Among those...
View ArticleWhat's a cop to do when his son is beaten bloody by another cop? #BLM #StDD
Over the past couple weeks, we have tried to show that the plague of police brutality is not only an existential threat to Black and Brown Americans but that under a culture of “Comply or Die” coupled...
View ArticlePresident Obama lays a whupping on Trump - the likes of which have not been...
The president addressed the idiotic but dangerous bloviating of the Republicans and their leader, Donald Trump, about the absolute necessity of using the term, “radical Islamic terrorist.”[...] What...
View ArticleA Glimmer of Hope. Thank you, Sen. Murphy. #StDD
The National Rifle Association, the NRA, and its leader, Wayne Lapierre, control our Congress. Put another way, Republican members of our Congress are more loyal to the NRA than they are to the...
View ArticleBehold the awesome power of Black folks. #BLM #STDDs
By now we have all heard of Freddie Gray, right?Freddie Gray, when alive. On April 12, 2015, Freddie Carlos Gray, Jr., a 25-year-old African-American man, was arrested by the Baltimore Police...
View ArticleActor/Activist Jesse Williams tells it like it is @BET Awards - and It was a...
Actor and activist Jesse Williams has social media alive and buzzing this evening and it has very little to do with his looks. The network President, Debra Lee, presented the Humanitarian Award at...
View ArticleO, Dear God! Why?! Another gratuitous execution-style killing of Black man by...
Warning! Graphic! Trigger! Warning! Graphic! Trigger! Warning! Graphic! Trigger!Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man trying to eke out a living by selling CDs, was murdered in cold blood by Baton...
View ArticleLet's be consistent! Let's condemn violence against cops AND violence against...
As a group, the members of Support the Dream Defenders reject terrorism and violence in any and every form, whether that murderous violence is police-on-citizens or citizens-on-police.So here we are...
View ArticleWill you stop killing us already! Damn!! #BLM #StDD
In the wake of the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and the universal outcry that followed, the amateur psychologists and sociologists are at it again. “We need to talk to each other,”...
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