No country for Black men
Published April 25, 2018 in the St. Louis American By Jamala Rogers Pervasive and persistent racial profiling of African-American men is only part of their reality. When Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson entered a Philly Starbucks for a business meeting, it took all of two minutes for the police to come and arrest them for trespassing. (It took […]
We Call BS: Parkland students join relay race for liberation
Published April 5, 2018 by the St. Louis American Jamala Rogers “So my bet is on the young people who are in motion based upon the latest mass shooting. The students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have lit a prairie fire.” This was part of the opening paragraph in my March 5 column, ”Guns, youth […]