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One of the single most painful things I've seen on Twitter is good people being genuinely afraid to defend and support their friends, because they don't want the Twitter mob

On the lies of being called a grifter and profiteer off of Black pain and death....This won't go viral. The truth rarely does. A thread of facts and documents and

A white man in Florence, South Carolina just shot 5 police officers. One just died. Police then peacefully negotiated his surrender. 2 points: 1. White men continue to be the

Grieved with my family, and 5 kids, for the past 24 hours over the death of Chadwick Boseman. This morning when I decided to mention Chadwick in an email, I

To the Kenosha Police Department,If you do not name the officer who brutally shot Jacob Blake on Sunday, we will simply begin naming officers from your department who may or

I have several things to say this morning and they don't all fit neatly into one article so I'm just going to put it all out here right now because

Two encouraging thoughts from me on the choice of Kamala Harris as VP.1. She was the most progressive candidate among the credible finalists for VP. 2. She has improved drastically

Meet #CharlesRoundtree. Just a kid. A teenager. Shot & killed by the San Antonio Police while sitting on the couch watching television. He was unarmed. Non-violent. Broke no laws. Was

Sadly, across the years, I have studied nearly 1,000 videos of police killing people. Some I've seen hundreds of times, searching for clues and details.I regularly think I couldn't see

I am trembling with anger over what I just witnessed. CLICK AWAY if you need to. ⁣⁣We need ALL HANDS ON DECK.⁣This is the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery.⁣It’s one of

For nearly 50 years, @JoeBiden has publicly pretended to have been a part of the Civil Rights Movement.He's not "exaggerating" or "embellishing," he is creating entire fictional storylines to impress

It pains me to say this, but I have found the Georgia Republicans in leadership to be far more responsive under pressure in the Ahmaud Arbery case than the key