Ferguson is America
Recently, the Department of Justice (DOJ) failed to indict Officer Darren Wilson for racially profiling and brutally killing Michael Brown. While the DOJ found Ferguson and St. Louis police guilty of widespread abuse, racial profiling, and brutal misconduct, it's not enough. Ferguson is America and tragic and unjust police killings of Black and brown people are happening almost every week nationwide. Will you email the White House directly and urge Pres. Obama to sign an executive order enforcing and expanding federal bans on discriminatory policing and strengthening police accountability mechanisms nationwide?
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President Obama and Baltimore Mayor Rawlings-Blake: Reject "thug." It's the new n-word.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and President Obama have both used the word "thug" to describe some protestors on the streets of Baltimore. It's an ugly word that reinforces a culture and a language that doesnโt value Black life.
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Gov. Cuomo: It's time to prove that you think black lives matter
New York Daily News: The Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo has the opportunity to impact history by enacting a simple but critical reform in New York, one that the Brooklyn NAACP has advocated for since the 1940s- authorize the appointment of a special prosecutor to handle criminal cases involving allegations of police impropriety. L Joy Williams, President of the Brooklyn NAACP and Rashad Robinson of Color of Change, ask the governor: How many must die before action is taken towards real reform? More »