Black Boys and Toy Guns are a Deadly Combination
In Ohio, the unbelievable happened again — unbelievable on several levels.
Yet another Black mother is making a public plea in the name of her son who has been victimized by the police. The family, although traumatized, was extremely lucky because the teen survived to tell his story. Unbelievable.
The hostile takeover by the state
The attempt to seize local control from the citizens of St. Louis will be met with organized—and might I add–hostile resistance (think pension, think future raises). That’s because citizens voted for local control of their police department in 2013 by a majority of citizens. That historic vote was the result of more than a decade of tireless organizing under the leadership of the Coalition Against Police Crimes and Repression (CAPCR).
[Podcast] Power At Work Blogcast #37: Labor Podcasters on Labor with Jamala Rogers, Bianca Cunningham, Adam Keller & Jacob Morrison
Listen to Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris’s conversation about worker power, the labor movement, social justice, and podcasting with Jamala Rogers and Bianca Cunningham, co-hosts of Convergence Magazine’s Black Work Talk, and Adam Keller and Jacob Morrison, co-hosts of The Valley Labor Report.