Our Hearts are in Charleston
It’s important to recognize that this was an act of racial terrorism, and tragically it did not occur in isolation.
issue: Promoting Diversity & Ending Racism
NOW Demands Answers and Action in McKinney, Texas
We can only look with revulsion on the images from McKinney, Texas, of a white police officer pushing a 14-year old Black girl in a bathing suit face-down on the ground and placing a knee on her back. Today, we are shocked, angered, and deeply worried for the well being of this young woman. Tomorrow, we need answers, and action.
Hundreds protest McKinney police officer who tackled a 14-year-old girl
Hundreds gathered on Monday evening outside a McKinney, Texas, elementary school to protest the treatment of black teenagers by one of the city’s police officers.
The officer, David Eric Casebolt, has been suspended pending an investigation by the McKinney Police Department. Many of the protesters, all of whom have likely seen Casebolt on video drawing his gun on children at a pool party, say he needs to lose his job.
50 Years Later: The Long March From Selma To Ferguson
Author Terrance Heath writes for Campaign for America’s Future: “To read the DOJ report is to step back in time fifty years, to the era when government policies helped turn Ferguson into a city once ranked as the 9th most segregated in the country; a city where one-fourth of the population, and 28 percent of the African-American population, lives in poverty; a city that relies on fines and court fees paid by struggling African-Americans for one-fifth of its revenues.”
#ReclaimMLK Seeks to Combat the Sanitizing of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy
Somewhere between his assassination and today began an MLK-neutering campaign meant to turn the famed agitator’s holiday into a national Day of Service, a generic mishmash of good feelings that contorts King’s social-justice legacy into a blissful Hallmark card of post-racial nothingness.