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Voting alone, electing officials alone does not change the economic well being of a black community. Voting is the illusion of power. It gives us choices but does not enable us to make decisions.
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Category / NEWS & VIEWS
Source: http://therealnews.com Rev. Heber Brown, III: Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand!
A CALL TO ACTION By Dr. Ron Daniels, Institute of the Black World When will it stop? The police killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, coming on the heals of the killing of Eric Garner, an unarmed Black man by a policeman’s choke hold in Staten Island,...
#Ferguson police raid local church that was allowing the Dream Defenders and other peaceful protesters a safe space.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says clashes between police and protesters in Missouri shows that “apartheid is flourishing” in the US, similar to South Africa during the apartheid era. Navi Pillay condemned on Tuesday the excessive use of force by police against demonstrators protesting last week’s fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by...
“With Five-0, citizens will be able to track all of their interactions with law enforcement, view local department ratings, and organize community action” Decatur, GA, August 15, 2014: 14 year old Parkview High School Freshman, Caleb Christian was concerned about the number of incidents of police abuse in the news. Still, he knew there were many...
By Damien Conners As a young executive director of one of the nation’s most influential civil rights organizations, I am beyond amazed at the level of pomp and circumstance that shrouds what should be the true emancipatory work of organizations positioned to make substantive change and serve as representative voices for the oppressed and silenced...
When my neighbor informed him that he was mistaken, one of the officers told the pastor to “lay the f*ck down,” handcuffed him and threatened to arrest him after waking up and interrogating his wife and sons on the front porch.
