She Wouldn’t Even Say George Floyd’s Name
Killer-cop Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 270 months, or twenty-two and one-half years, in prison for the murder of George Floyd. However, all experts agree that with “good behavior,” he will likely spend no more than fifteen years behind bars.
Today’s (June 25) sentencing hearing opened with “victim impact statements”…
The “Usual Suspects”: Cops, Drugs, Guns, Gangs, and White People
Chicago’s major (“mainstream”) media all report that this just past, unconscionably deadly, July Fourth weekend recorded up to eighty-eight people shot, including as many as fourteen killed, across this troubled city’s mostly black South and West Sides.
The Chicago Police Department (CPD) reports that from Friday the 2nd through early…
In 1976, after finally winning his first Grammy for “Best Album,” folk songster Paul Simon gave one of the most astounding acceptance speeches of all time. After thanking his fans, his producers, fellow musicians and singers, musical engineers… and even his parents, he then said:
“But most of all I…
This body shaming seems to be limited mainly to "Western" societies. In most of Africa, the "larger" women are considered the most "beautiful." Is that still "body shaming" but in the other direction?
Proposes Law to Finally End It and Pay Black People for Services Rendered
We can’t let [the failed coup d’état] go because it directly connects with our legacy of racism and hate in this country that stems from the genocide of the indigenous Americans and the enslavement of African Americans. The legacy of that is institutional racism and white nationalism; and if we…
The First One was the 400-Year-Long War and Not Quite Total Extermination of Native Americans
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please. They do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing, already given, and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And…
COVID-19 is the leading cause of death for police officers [over the last two years] even though members of law enforcement were among the first to be eligible to receive the vaccine,
CNN reports, citing data from the Officer Down Memorial Page
Yesterday (October 15), a judge issued a temporary…
Drag paraplegic Black man from car by his hair
CNN’s Erin Burnett interviewed yet another innocent victim of white cops’ apparent inability and unwillingness to treat black people as human beings. “I was in fear of my life,” Clifford Owensby (39) told Burnett. “All I could do was just close my eyes and grab the steering wheel.”
This “incident”…
House Republicans Move to Outlaw Critical Race Theory from All Schools Nationwide
So, henceforth and forever forward, white America needs to get and remain honest with itself and with its history. It must acknowledge and atone for the oceans of blood it has spilled in the creation and maintenance of this white settler colonial nation-state. …
The jury deliberating R. (Robert Sylvester) Kelly’s fate will reconvene and continue its deliberations as to the guilt or innocence of this not-so-young-man tomorrow (Monday, September 27, 2021).
If God is real, if Truth is true, if Justice is just…then the jury will take no more time than absolutely necessary…
Herbert Dyer, Jr.
Freelancer since the earth first began cooling. My beat, justice: racial, social, political, economic and cultural. I’m on FB, Twitter, Link, hdyerjr@gmail.com.
