The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations holds its national conference in Chicago, August 12 and 13, under the theme, “The Ballot and the Bullet: Elections, War and Peace in the Donald Trump Era.” Kamm Howard, of the Black Is Back steering committee, is active in NCOBRA, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. “One of the ways we’re pushing reparations is a Black Is Back-led push to have a reparations referendum put on the Chicago ballot in March of 2018,” said Howard.
Black Americans are told to shelter in savagely unequal places where the necessities of life are scarce and Covid-19 is most lethal.
This week you had the Democratic Party, Libertarianism, and Native American relations with African Americans on your minds.
The books in focus explore the ways an anti-black world tries to interdict the possibilities of Black life, and how Black people resist and overcome such assaults.
Increased police technology, increased training and “community policing” tend to actually expand instead of decreasing policing.
The attorney general’s theory rests on the premise that there is a set path by which one radicalizes into becoming violent.
