George Floyd

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹NBC New York, ²BBC News, ³Axios and ⁴Reuters. New York City has agreed to pay $21.5K to at least 200 protesters who were detained, arrested, or met with force by police during a June 4, 2020 demonstration protesting…

OPINION Choose Poetry Of James Weldon Johnson Over Racism Of Francis Scott Key, Lift Every Voice and Sing “Lift every voice and sing, ’Til earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. …

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by Reuters, CBS, New York Post, and Independent. On Monday, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent board that reviews complaints made against the New York City Police Department (NYPD), issued a report recommending punishment for dozens of officers…

I cannot believe that it has been almost three years since George Floyd was brutally murdered by police officers. In fact, my second article of all time on Medium was an essay I wrote in the wake of Floyd’s murder and after seeing an interactive webpage from Al Jazeera showing…

After the Netflix series Dahmer, the biographical series about the life of Jeffrey Dahmer, was released many viewers expressed the concern that the show had released a demonic presence in their house. While the sentiment of demonic presence is a common claim, I have to wonder if the reported belief…

From the ashes of tragedy, hope did rise, a spark was lit, by George Floyd’s life. A call to action, a cry for change, for a world where all can live free, not in chains. The movement he sparked, it spreads like a flame, illuminating the darkness, and banishing shame…

There is a war raging in Ukraine and we have seen the gruesome images of blood and destruction on television news reports but that concern has slowly turned to impatience baked by feelings of impotence and hopelessness. Another mass shooting is reported in a school and again we are shocked…

Who isn’t appalled by what they saw in the video recording of Tyre Nichols being brutally assaulted in Memphis, Tennessee? The young man says, “I’m just trying to go home” to his parents’ house a mere 100 yards away. He didn’t go home. He died three days later. …