âIn terms of the front pages of major newspapers in this country, police brutality has not been covered to the degree it was in the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and others,â said Larry Hamm, chairman of the Peopleâs Organization for Progress (POP), in Newark, New Jersey. POP, which was founded 37 years ago, last week held its 70th weekly protest against police brutality. âWe have to keep demonstrating, we have to keep fighting, in order to keep public attention on the issue,â said Hamm.
âThe corrections officers think itâs a joke, and I be telling them, âThis is serious, man.ââ
Historian Johanna FernĂĄndez makes the case for the Young Lords as profound thinkers as well as highly capable street activists.
The lockdown included bans on any sales of alcohol and cigarettes and even barred exercises outside the home.
The IMF refused a COVIDâ19 emergency loan to Venezuela unless it agreed to overthrow President Maduro and installs the Washington-backed Juan GuaidĂł.
Elders and already sick folks are at risk down South, the Blackest region of the nation with the worst health care.
