2015/10/5-“A young black man, Henry Dumas, went through a turnstile at a New York City subway station,” reads an invitation by Toni Morrison for a posthumous book-launch party she threw for Dumas in 1974, six years after he died. “A …..
2015/08/11 – A state of emergency in St. Louis County did not prevent a controversial patriot organization from adding to the tensions felt across Ferguson, Mo., early Tuesday. According to NBC News, members of the Oath Keepers—an organization consisting of …..
2015/08/11 – Reporters from The Huffington Post and Washington Post have been charged with trespassing and interfering with a police officer’s performance, a chilling setback for press freedom coming nearly a year after their arrests in Ferguson, Missouri. The Huffington …..
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 …..
