2015/10/5-Growing up during the crack era in East Baltimore, author D. Watkins saw firsthand how the drug destroyed communities. “It trashed my neighborhood,” Watkins tellsFresh Air‘s Terry Gross. “I’m old enough to remember before crack really hit, and once it …..
2015/9/22-Mississippi House Speaker Phillip Gunn sent a strong message to voters who will not vote Republican. The message: You’re Out. “When it comes to leadership positions (in the Mississippi Legislature), who do we pick? We’ll be picking people who share …..
2015/07/23 – At age sixteen, I went to a high school dance with a white male friend. When we pulled up to the gym, music blaring loudly out the windows, a police officer came over as we got out of …..
2015/07/22 – Again, we face another questionable traffic stop. Again, we suffer another African American male losing his life at the hands of law enforcement. Again, a man has died while uttering the words ‘I can’t breathe’. The Mississippi State …..
2015/07/22 – Cries of protest rang through the usually quiet streets of the small Mississippi community of Stonewall this month, as organizers marched on the town’s police station, demanding the removal of who residents believe to be “killer cops.” Angry …..