Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last Friday I found myself sitting in an NPR studio, discussing the week’s news. I’m a frequent panelist on this show, and I have yet to sit with another person of color. It is me and a room full of white people. As always, my blackness is palpable, even over the airwaves. But this is…
The Tamir Rice Story: How to Make a Police Shooting Disappear Maybe you heard about the Tamir Rice case and wondered: How does a 12-year-old boy with a toy gun on a playground get shot to death on-camera by the police without anyone getting charged? Put another way: How does a small group of…
On Thursday, President Obama hosted a Town Hall meeting on race relations in Washington D.C. that aired on ABC, with guests affected by police violence in the United States. That included police officers and the families of Alton Sterling and Eric Garner. Garner’s daughter, Erica, was not happy with how it went. It started off…
A horrible story from Minnesota, as reported by the Washington Post: A Minnesota traffic stop turned deadly Wednesday evening when a police officer opened fire on a black driver. The victim, 32-year-old Philando Castile, died at a Minneapolis hospital, a family member told The Washington Post. The aftermath of the shooting was filmed by…
I was immediately triggered. Germany. I was back in the park. A few weeks ago. It was the final day of shooting and I was glad because I’m not a model and only agreed to help out a friend, and while I was grateful to wear cool vintage clothes and feel “pretty”, after three long…
On any given day, in any police department in the nation, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. Fifteen percent of officers will abuse their authority at every opportunity. The remaining 70 percent could go either way depending on whom they are working with. That’s a theory from…
Diamond Reynolds weeps at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in front of the governor’s mansion Thursday in St. Paul, Minn., after recounting the fatal shooting of her boyfriend, Philando Castile, by a police officer. (Eric Miller/Reuters) After a Minnesota police officer fatally shot a black man on Wednesday, gun control advocates weren’t the only ones criticizing…
Justice Police Said They Shot A Man Because He Pointed A Gun At Them. Video Shows He Had His Hands Up. by Aviva Shen Jul 10, 2016 10:33 am CREDIT: Facebook, Alva Braziel Another black man was shot and killed by police in Texas early Saturday morning. Houston Police said Alva Braziel was waving…
Protests past and present Tess Apslund, 42, stands with a raised fist in front of uniformed neo-Nazis during a Nordic Resistance Movement demonstration in Borlange, Sweden, on Sunday, May 1. Click through the gallery to see memorable images from other protests throughout history. Protests past and present On March 12, 1930, Indian nationalist leader Mahatma…
While thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of major U.S. cities again Saturday night — protesting the recent killings by police of black men Philando Castile in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — a demonstration in St. Paul took a particularly violent turn, with participants hurling Molotov cocktails, fireworks,…