Once elected, criminal justice reformers face nasty attacks. By Rashad Robinson http://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/opinion/george-floyd-prosecutors.html “District attorneys elected to carry out progressive policies over the last five years have been met with resistance from police departments and unions, as well as from judges, lawmakers and even some corporations. They have used their power to prevent these prosecutors from doing […]
MoreI was born smack in the middle of America’s “Baby Boom.” I lived my formative years under Jim Crow in rural Missouri. My life spans the arc of America’s modern social and racial history from Brown v. Board of Education to the March on Washington from the War on Poverty to the war on young […]
Moreloser noun: los·er | \ ˈlü-zər \ 2 : a person who is incompetent or unable to succeed Don’t waste your time on that loser. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loser “This sounds at first, I know, like a conversation on an elementary school playground, but the remark sort of stuck in my head. When I thought about it, it […]
Morehttp://www.missvirginiamovie.com/about Modern black history circa 2003-2004. “Miss Virginia” is the story of the power of people. It is about the power that being sick and tired of being sick and tired can generate and how that power led to positive change for students in the Washington, D.C. school district. Good movie. Great message. (Yes, the […]
MoreP-MV. This is the formula for momentum. Momentum(P) = (m)mass x (v)velocity. Black history is our history–not someone else’s. We are responsible for preserving and lifting up our story. It is our story to tell, and it is our individual and collective responsibility to know, own and share it. We have depended on others to […]
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