Arrested for not possessing a valid driver’s license and held in custody because she couldn’t make bail. A disturbing story is breaking this morning regarding a 22-year-old mother to a 3-year-old daughter who died in police custody last Tuesday, allegedly due to the failure of local jail officials to …
Read More »Russians Throw Party Mocking Lynching Of White Man In Blackface
We typically associate anti-black racism as being an exclusively American trait, so much so that we forget its pervasive impact worldwide. On Tuesday, at a Russian government research and development office in St Petersburg, an “American costume party” was held, and one of its employees dressed in blackface and bound …
Read More »NY Daily News/Shaun King: American police killed, brutalized so many people that it’s hard to keep up
At what point do we as a society look in the mirror and realize that progress isn’t inevitable? At what point do we realize that direct actions are needed to bring about real, lasting change for all Americans brutalized by our criminal justice/law enforcement systems? Immediately, we can only hope… …
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