by Opal Tometi/ROAR Magazine In 1992, the world witnessed African American Rodney King being brutally beaten by Los Angeles policemen. In 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Black immigrant from Guinea, was shot 19 times by five New York City policemen outside his apartment. Sean Bell was shot to […]
by Days Massolo Staff/Press Release Spring 2016 Calendar – January Monday January 18 Dr. MLK, Jr. Celebration and Dinner 5:00 PM – Tolles Pavilion A&B (COOP and Dean of Students collaboration) Annual MLK Dinner with lecture and special guest Jennicet Gutierrez, trans-liberator activist who interrupted President Obama’s LGBTQ […]
by Jack Suria Linares/YDS USA When potential presidential candidate Bernie Sanders opposed the idea of open borders, many (the media, the liberal establishment, and even activists) took his position as an attack on immigration reform. A similar attack happened after the events at Netroots Nation where Black Lives […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage From the perspective of an activist, neither black, nor Democrat, nor capitalist, it is not ambiguous at all what’s going on between #BlackLivesMatter, Bernie Sanders and white liberals. It’s a love triangle caught in the myopic assuage of white liberals who feel that […]
by DeRay McKesson/The Guardian Mike Brown should be alive today. He should be home from his first year at college, visiting friends and enjoying summer as he prepares to return to campus. The movement began one year ago as Brown’s body lay in the street of Canfield Drive […]
by Jalil Muntaqim/FreeJalil.com To lose a child under any circumstances is heart-wrenching for any parent. This is especially true when it is done by a representative of government. When the police kill, particularly a child, more specifically a man-child of color, it raises many questions about justification. As […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage Occupy Entitlement Written off like a disobedient child; a subversive flare-up of Millenial angst. Left for dead by many outside of the movement, the ones who failed to engage in it. Who failed to touch it. The dying light of the Occupy movement […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage CINCINNATI, OH – The University of Cincinnati Police Officer who shot and killed 43-year-old Samuel Dubose has been indicted for murder. In a press release, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters spoke of Officer Ray Tensing’s conduct, “I’ve been doing this for over 30 […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage The case of Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old Chicago-area activist who was found dead in a Texas jail cell on July 13th, has opened up many questions in the past two weeks. The stated cause of death was ruled asphyxiation via autopsy by the […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage It is both valid and poignant to ask if conservative-types in the US hear the contradiction in their reactions to police brutality when held against their small government credo; right wing commentary on police shootings, after all, often betrays strong government sympathies as […]
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