by Jay Ambrose Suppose you’re in a battlefield with bad guys coming at you full force and you have the means of stopping them, but, while calling your own troops names, you pull them off the field, letting the bad guys have their murderous way. That’s not that far from what we’ve ...
by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington Millions of people have celebrated former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s conviction for the murder of George Floyd as a validation of the Black Lives Matter movement. It is a major step along the way to police reform. Yet we should not be ...
by Kyoko Thompson My partner says I make everything about gender. If I’m honest, he’s probably right. As a women’s health and rights specialist, I tend to interpret the world around me through a gender lens. And, as the past year has elicited a painful amount of footage of police ...
State, county and city leaders faced a big test in the aftermath of the tragic killing of Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old man shot by former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly A. Potter Sunday. Tensions were heightened because Wright's death came during the trial of former Minneapolis ...
The chants heard in downtown Morgantown Thursday evening were exactly the same as those that echoed through the same streets last summer. Black Lives Matter. No Justice, No Peace, No Racist Police. There was one notable difference. When leaders chanted “Say his ...
by Dahleen Glanton Months after police killed George Floyd on a busy street in Minneapolis, Army Lt. Caron Nazario had a dangerous encounter with police in rural Virginia. Nazario, who is Black and Latino, survived. But the officers’ overreaction to Nazario for driving a new SUV ...