The following is from the Washington Post piece that Barbara Reynolds, a civil rights activist who was a part of the 1960s movement, penned in response to Black Lives Matter tactics: Black Lives Matter is a motley-looking group to this septuagenarian grandmother, an activist in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Many in my crowd admire the […]
Symbolic activism, but will anything come from it? Before a Heat-76ers game at Miami’s AmericanAirlines Arena, Denasia Lawrence stood at midcourt as an announcer asked the crowd to rise while introducing her. She then unbuttoned her turquoise jacket, revealing a “Black Lives Matter” shirt underneath, got on one knee and performed the song. To all of […]
That’s quite a strong statement from Columbia University professor Carl Hart: Psychology Professor Hart writes that drug effects are “predictable,” but encounters with police “often” end with dead black people. Dr. Hart, the first black professor tenured in the natural sciences at Columbia University, teaches a psychology course titled “Drugs and Behavior,” and is known […]