Bringing Black August to a Close

The St. Louis primary election is evidence that the MAGA disease has infected our politics. With the slash and burn actions of the trump regime on the federal level and the anti-urban power grabs on the state level, there was some hope that St. Louis could be a genuine refuge against the anti-democratic forces sweeping across the land.

Moving but not together a different strategy is needed to protect the lives of women. When I think about the March theme, I wonder where’s the “moving” and who is the “together.”

The news that trump was revoking the Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for Haitians living in the United States came as no surprise. Haitians were targeted during his re-election campaign, specifically the Haitian community of Springfield, OH. They were made Public Enemy #1 when trump claimed these proud, hard-working immigrant communities were eating the cats and dogs of their neighbors.