Power of the sister vote
An old Ghanaian proverb says, “Until the lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” Journalism is the first draft of history. In the wake of Democrats’ shellacking in the midterm election, journalists and pundits blamed low black turnout for their losses. They compared 2010 turnout with 2008, but [...]
When are degrees from Harvard, Yale and Oxford not enough to prove that you like books? When you are also black, like me. That was the first lesson I learned a few days ago when I was the victim of racial profiling at the law school where I teach. My faculty photo identification was not [...]
Continue reading …“I’ve seen a lot in my life but to be degraded… not just stripped of my clothes, being stripped of my dignity, was what I had a problem with.” Kurdish American Karwan Abdul Kader was stopped and stripped by local law enforcement for no reason other than driving around in the wrong neighborhood. This is [...]
Continue reading …By Deborah Meehan, Executive Director, Leadership Learning Community, Oakland made the headlines again this summer when a jury delivered a verdict of involuntary manslaughter in the trial of Johannes Mehserle. Mehserle, a BART police officer, was on trial for shooting Oscar Grant, a young, African American, unarmed passenger who died on New Year’s Day 2009. [...]
Continue reading …By Alan Bean This week, Curtis Flowers is being tried for capital murder for the sixth time in Winona, Mississippi. Friends of Justice is observing the trial. In this update from Day Eight, Friends of Justice’s Executive Director explains why the “evidence” offered by the prosecution is fundamentally misleading. “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” The [...]
Continue reading …Audrey Stewart and Davida Finger also contributed to this article An African American man, Curtis Flowers, made history this week when he became the first person in U.S. history to ever go on trial for murder six times for the same crime. Mr. Flowers has been in jail in Mississippi since 1996, accused of the [...]
Continue reading …The National Action Network held its 12th annual convention last week in New York City. I attended the first day, but missed the black leadership forum, “Measuring the Movement.” Broadcast live on TV One, the forum was “designed to determine and commit to significant and measurable goals that will advance the standing of African Americans [...]
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