The left continues to mount the case against Hillary Clinton. Michelle Alexander dismantled the Clintons' record on mass incarceration and welfare reform in an essay for The Nation and a number of Facebook posts. While activists are utilizing direct action to force Hillary to respond.
Activist Ashley Williams, 23, attended a $500 a ticket fundraiser for Clinton in South Carolina on Wednesday. While Clinton was offering remarks, Williams held up a sign that read, "We Have to Bring Them to Heel." She asked Clinton, "Will you apologize to Black people for mass incarceration?" The activist also sought answers for a speech in which Clinton referred to Black teens as "super predators" in 1994.
Hillary refused saying, "We'll talk about it later." The candidate seemed to take issue with the interruption. "Do you want to hear the facts or do you want to talk?" she asked. At this time, other attendees began to express their frustration with, "You're being rude." Within 90 seconds of the action's initiation, Williams was escorted out by Clinton's security.
Williams told The Washington Post, "She’s had 20 years to respond to my question...And so her inability to do it last night to me is just kind of representative of how she has been absent in terms of racial justice in a meaningful way, in a material way."
After yesterday's announcement that the officers responsible for 12-year-old Tamir Rice's death last November would not be indicted for his murder, many of us took to social media to express our heartbreak, outrage, and confusion.
When the North Carolina Arts Council asked Glenis Redmond for an interview upon receiving the NC Literary Award Recipient at the McColl Center for the Arts, she was unsure if she would be articulate as recent events had her feeling “raw.” However, at the end of the interview, her interviewer requested that Redmond recite a poem. Redmond chose a poem she wrote in the 90's entitled “Our Spirit Stands.”
Janelle Monae and Wondaland artists, including rising star, Jidenna, marched through Philadelphia on Wednesday to bring awareness to Black lives lost as a result of police brutality.
Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Seattle chapter Marissa Johnson spoke with MSNBC's Tamron Hall about the group's action in taking to the stage during a Bernie Sanders rally Saturday.
After a candlelight vigil at Homewood Park for Kindra Chapman, her grandmother expressed that she still is suspicious of Chapman's alleged suicide in an Alabama jail. With tears in her eyes, she told AL.com that she is tired of being quiet.
Waller County Texas Officials have released hours of jail footage of Sandra Bland in order to negate the idea that Sandra Bland was dead before she was brought to jail.
Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis told reporters that the investigation into the death of Sandra Bland is being treated like a murder investigation, NBC News reports.
Democratic presidential candidates Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders sat down with activist and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas at a Netroots Nation Presidential Forum and were interrupted by activists who shut the forum down to force the candidates to address the brutality Black women and men face at the hands of law enforcement.
In a Brooklyn Independent Media short video, Arielle Newton, an organizer with Black Lives Matter, is followed around New York City as she promotes the importance of including Black women in movement work.
Trigger warning: disturbing images and fictionalized depictions of brutality, violence, and death
Jacqueline Olive is a documentary filmmaker living in Florida. Her most recent project is the feature film, Always in Season, which aims to explore the history of violence and terrorism that Blacks faced through lynching, as well as ongoing efforts to reconcile and seek justice for the heinous race-based murders of Black people for over a century.
The 15-year-old girl seen being held down by a police officer in McKinney, TX shares her side of what happened that day in an interview with FOX 4 News - Dallas-Fort Worth. She was an invited guest at the pool party, and not involved in the fight which police officers responded to.
A police body camera video obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California shows the January 26 arrest of Charlena Cooks after she dropped her daughter off at school. Police responded to an unidentified woman who claimed Cooks was driving recklessly.
As the middle sister of nine brothers with ages ranging from 18 to 40, nothing scares me more than the thought of one of them becoming a victim of policy brutality.
