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The Department of Justice Can’t Give Justice to Black People
Gazing out on a Field of Blood
Black Lives Have Never Mattered In The United States of America And Never Will
And Now Laquan
To Serve & Protect or Ravish & Wreck
Electing Enemies
The U.S. Presidential elections are over a year from now, but if you relied on national media accounts, you’d think that they were all but imminent. But this isn’t the elections; it’s like an obstacle… Full Transcript
Justice or Else
Tamir
Question: When is a child not a child? Answer: When it’s a Black child. That question and answer came to me when I heard that the police killing of 12 – year- old Tamir Rice… Full Transcript
Centuries of Struggle Big House Prison Blues
‘Plus ça change …’ say the French; or ‘The more things change, of course, the more they stay the same.’ That thought, with all its despair and wisdom, resonates with particular power when we look… Full Transcript
The Nation of Islam Calls for Million Man March to Demand Justice or Else
The National Representative of the Nation of Islam, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, has called on African American, Latino/ a Native American, and Caucasian peoples to attend the coming October 10th gathering of the 20th… Full Transcript
Another Forum to Express Injustice
Again 50 Years Later We Are Still Here
Black August 2015
A Message to the Black Lives Matter Movement II
Two Fergusons
9. Police Shooting
Speaker 1 No I’m just talking about, like, what happened tonight. Speaker 2 I turned the corner. Here’s the police standing with a big ol’ stick. And he had it drawn back as though like,… Full Transcript
May 13
It has been eight years now since the massacre, eight years since the carnage on Osage Avenue, eight years since an urban Holocaust which stole eleven human lives, eight years since the unjust encagement of… Full Transcript
LA Outlaw
The federal trial of four Los Angeles cops, forced by the public orgy of rebellion and rage, which rocked the city a year before in response to acquittal stemming from the brutal Rodney King beating,… Full Transcript
A House is Not A Home
She sits in utter stillness. Her coffee brown features, as if set in obsidian, as if a mask, barely perceptible; the tears threatening to overflow that dark, proud maternal face, a face held still by… Full Transcript