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Even if you in a Benz you still a Nigga in a Coupe: Racial Profiling Resurrected in “Post-Racial” America
EVEN IF YOU IN A BENZ YOU STILL A NIGGA IN A COUPE So goes the line in one of Kanye West’s first smash hits entitled, “All Falls Down.” The prophetic phrase strikes the core of the frustrating racialized experience of Africans and other so-called “minorities” in America. The bottom line for many... »
Who Owns Baltimore’s Inner Harbor? Police block workers from delivering notices to three worst employers
On March 6, 2009, the United Workers put the three worst employers on notice for violating the economic human rights of Harbor workers, but were blocked from delivering notices to the Baltimore Inner Harbor businesses. Workers held a press conference across from the Inner Harbor and planned to deliver “notices” to the three employers. But... »
City Paper captures my last quotes on the Zach Sowers tragedy
In a city that seems all too eager to embrace simplistic explanations of crime and violence with the “good” people and “bad” people properly assigned, City Paper has joined almost every other major publication/news broadcast in Baltimore in featuring the tragic story of Zach Sowers. A young husband who was robbed and beaten... »
We pour libation to: Fred Hampton & Mark Clark
On this day in 1969, the headquarters of the Chicago Black Panther Party was targeted in a pre-dawn raid by the Chicago Police Department in partnership with J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation. The “law” enforcement officers emptied their guns on every brown body in the building and when the smoke cleared... »
Police killing suspect’s jail death ruled homicide
Hat Tip: Associated Press The death of a 19-year-old found slumped in his cell a day after he was jailed on charges of running over and killing a police officer has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Monday. The Maryland Medical Examiner ruled Monday that Ronnie White’s death in Prince George’s County Correctional Center the previous... »
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