Baltimore
It wasn’t long ago, just over three months, in fact, that we were glued to our televisions, Continue reading Baltimore, St. Louis and beyond: profiles in gross disparities and deprivation | #BlackLivesMatter on Blog#42
Tag Archives: Ferguson
Important readings in #BlackLivesMatter | May 15, 2015 | Blog#42
This is a selection of the articles I thought were most important this week on the topic of race and race relations. Continue reading Important readings in #BlackLivesMatter | May 15, 2015 | Blog#42
1.5 million missing Black men: How many innocents?
Can you imagine spending thirteen years in jail for a crime you didn’t commit simply because the exculpatory evidence you might have defended yourself with happened to have been given to someone as a gift? Continue reading 1.5 million missing Black men: How many innocents?
Deadly Force, in Black and White – ProPublica
A ProPublica analysis of killings by police shows outsize risk for young black males.
Continue reading Deadly Force, in Black and White – ProPublica
POLL: Whites More Likely To OK Police Striking People
WASHINGTON (AP) — Whites in the United States approve of police officers hitting people in far greater numbers than blacks and Hispanics do, at a time when the country is struggling to deal with police use of deadly force against men of color, according to a major American trend survey.
Continue reading POLL: Whites More Likely To OK Police Striking People
My open letter to Jonathan Capehart | #BlackLivesMatter
#Ferguson: the truth will set you free… | #BlackLivesMatter
James Baldwin wrote:
“The truth which frees black people will also free white people, but this is a truth which white people find very difficult to swallow.”
Continue reading #Ferguson: the truth will set you free… | #BlackLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatter: Commemorating those who fell to American racism
This is a partial list of recent victims of racism in America. It was compiled with the help of my good friend Charlie. Please look through it and, if you know of anyone else who fell to the militarized racist police state, please give me a name, date, and location.
Thank you. Continue reading #BlackLivesMatter: Commemorating those who fell to American racism
‘#MorningJoe’ Panel: #MichaelBrown Was A ‘Thug,’ Protests Are Based On ‘Lies’
Blogger’s comment:
Does anyone believe these people, including former Congressman Joe Scarborough took the time to read through the copious amounts of evidence released by Robert McCulloch? No? That was McCulloch’s point in flooding the jury with it and after the verdict, the rest of us.
McCulloch wins. This is retro-racial America. Continue reading ‘#MorningJoe’ Panel: #MichaelBrown Was A ‘Thug,’ Protests Are Based On ‘Lies’
Michael Brown: A collection of the best reporting to date
Michael Brown spent his last day with his friend Dorian Johnson. Here’s what Johnson saw. – Vox
By Ezra Klein
November 25, 2014Earlier today, I wrote that Officer Darren Wilson’s newly released account of his altercation with Michael Brown was unbelievable. Which isn’t to say it was wrong. It was just hard to believe that events played out exactly as Wilson described.
But the story Wilson tells makes much more sense if you also read it alongside Dorian Johnson’s testimony — and use the two accounts to balance each other out. Continue reading Michael Brown: A collection of the best reporting to date