"Black and Blue" is the third episode of the second season of the American police drama television series Homicide: Life on the Street, and the twelfth overall episode of the series. It originally aired on NBC in the United States on January 20, 1994. In the episode,...

Pembleton aggressively investigates what he believes to be a police-related shooting. Amid pressure from Gee to pursue civilian suspects, Pembleton elicits a successful confession from an innocent man, leaving Gee feeling conflicted. Directed by Chris Menaul, the episode's...

teleplay was written by James Yoshimura based on a story by series executive producer Tom Fontana.

You say, “Why is this tweet important Isaiah?”

In the 1988, I was living in New York during the height of racial polarization and the so called War on Drugs. I was nearly shot by both drug dealers and law enforcement that thought I was a drug dealer in Brooklyn, because...well...I dressed well and sported new Timberlands.

In 1993, I read about the The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, H.R. 3355 being passed by the House & the Senate in November. I knew right away that this was going to be a major problem for men that looked like me. So, when I was offered the role of “Layne Staley”...

I used the platform to protest Bill Clinton & Joe Biden’s ‘94 Crime Bill long before it became a law. I lobbied the Producers to allow me to wear the American Flag as a bandanna. There was great resistance, until Andre Braugher stepped in and said, “I like it.” I served to...

support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, even when I have been subjected to many injustices in this country. I know millions have died believing in this symbol called the ‘American Flag’ and as complicated as Old Glory..

is, the older I get, the more I have great understanding and pride knowing that WE will fulfill the pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

The point that I’m making, is that my ‘work’ on stage and screen has been my ‘activism’ and I have been ‘communicating’ with y’all for a long time. A long time.