It's Bob Marley's Birthday and there's a message in the music
The Honorable Robert Nesta Marley was born on the sixth day of the second month 73 years ago. He was only with us for a brief moment but his music continues to entertain us, to soothe us, and to...
View Article"Don’t ram him, shoot him!" Sheriff orders the killing of 33-yr-old unarmed...
Driving a 1976 pickup with a packed trailer attached, Michael Dial — a 33-year-old husband and father — was on his way to set up for a Flea Market when he was stopped by the police for driving with a...
View ArticleStudents taking on the NRA and I'm betting on them to win this fight...
Almost everything I’ve read about the horrific killings in Parkland Florida this week, I’ve read before...a hundred times or more before. Different names, different date, and a different place but it’s...
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Updates on Dorothy, Charleena, & Korryn - Black Women Lives Matter! #BLM
Dorothy Danner was well aware of the dangers she faced as a black woman suffering from mental illness. In an almost prophetic piece, she wrote about her fears and the unpreparedness of the cops to deal...
View ArticleWhy did the Elgin police kill Decynthia Clements? #BLM
Wow, what a week! Tillerson fired via Twitter by the Coward-in-Chief; Democrats flipped a +20 “safe” Republican gerrymandered seat; children take the fight to the terrorist organization known as the...
View Article"You guys are murderers!" A Grandmother's Anguish #BLM #JusticeForStephon
Quite a few of the reports I have seen about the unconscionable murder of Stephon “Zoe” Clark, simply refers to him as “unarmed black man.” Nothing new, really; there have been hundreds of...
View ArticleVeterans take on the NRA in a powerful, must-see ad. Wow! #NeverAgain...
This you just must see.xYouTube VideoVeterans for Gun Reform: It was my duty to finally speak out in a way that would reach a lot of peopleThe story of how and why this ad was made is told here.“I...
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Brutalizing black bodies has never been a "local matter." #BLM...
I commend journalist April Ryan for asking about cops using black people for target practice at a recent White House press briefing. The response to her question is as I’d expect from any...
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Of race, mental illness, gentrification, and murderous cops. Justice for...
It does feel as if we are on a “ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven, ” doesn’t it? The crazy is all-pervasive, unrelenting, unpredictable, and...
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Calling the police on black people without cause is an act of aggression....
In sheer numbers, cops kill more white people every year than any other demographic. That's a well-documented fact. Granted, people of color are killed at a far greater rate, with far less provocation,...
View ArticleStill Fighting for Justice for Jayson #BLM #StDD
The family of Jayson Negron is in pain and the city of Bridgeport is doing its darnedest to add to their suffering. Their peculiar anguish began last May when their beloved baby boy was brutally gunned...
View ArticleThey are not the same! One has to do with profanity, the other the worst type...
The two comments are not even in the same ballpark. Samantha Bee went overboard in talking about the complicity of Ivanka Trump in her father’s cruel and inhumane policies against the voiceless, the...
View Article"I am confused and afraid..." Justice for unarmed 17-yr-old Antwon shot 3...
What happened to 17-year-old Antwon Rose is not unrelated to what has been happening on our southern border. Historians will write about — and anthropologists will study — this age of toxic...
View ArticleAuntie Maxine always has the last word! She responds to faux outrage #Civility
Judging from media coverage today, the most egregious transgression this weekend was Congresswoman Maxine Waters calling for cabinet members of this mal-administration to be made uncomfortable whenever...
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Lawrence O'Donnell's emotional tribute to Antwon Rose. #JusticeForAntwon
When it comes to covering the issue of police brutality, there’s nobody on TV who comes even remotely close to Lawrence O’Donnell. I first became aware of the qualitative difference in Mr. O’Donnell’s...
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Say goodbye to the man who defended Mike Brown's murderer! McCulloch out!...
Yesss!!!!! Yessss!!!!! Yessss!!!!!St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch is out! You may remember that McCulloch was the prosecutor who mounted a spirited defense on behalf of the Ferguson cop who...
View ArticleWe should know his name too. Justice for Armando Frank #BLM
You know of Eric Garner but have you heard of Armando Frank? You should, as the two cases are eerily similar. This was the report that the Avoyelles Parish Police Department released about Mr. Frank’s...
View ArticleShaun Jeffery Christy needed help, not bullets. JusticeforShaun
“ Shoot me! Shoot me!” They did.Thirty-seven-year-old Shaun Jeffery Christy was having a psychotic episode. Things were rapidly spinning out of control for him and he was desperately crying out for...
View ArticlePresident Obama Pays Tribute to Sen. John McCain. A study in class & decency
President Obama took the time to pay tribute to Sen. John McCain with more than the 280 characters that Twitter allows. This is how a real president speaks about a real patriot.xOur statement on the...
View ArticleWhen the Blue Wall Crumbles... 15 years for the man who murdered Jordan...
Jordan Edwards was a bright kid. A happy kid. A model kid. He had the type of smile that could light up a room, those who knew him said. He had a loving family — among them his protective older...
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