“In 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,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s 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. “We have to keep demonstrating, we have to keep fighting, in order to keep public attention on the issue,” said Hamm.
The author provides a “queer” perspective on African identities, politics and economies.
The roots of racial differences have to do with the past treatment of enslaved people in the North as well as the South.
The law is a shaky foundation to rest on, particularly for Black people and other marginalized communities.
Could it be that electability, as applied to Biden, is some form of racial dog whistle?
Will a new wave of activism finally produce a real mass movement against “boundless” militarism?
