Opinion
As is usually the case, the story the Department of Homeland Security is telling about the shooting involves "criminal illegal aliens" and vehicles used as weapons.
Law enforcement leaders say ICE has violated the civil rights of U.S. citizens, citing incidents in which they have pulled guns on off-duty police officers of color, demanding proof of citizenship.
It’s a question that immediately raises a deeper historical one. Not just whether white participation ever existed, but what it actually meant, and what people imagine it would mean now.
The answer is not a single protest or a single election. It is a commitment to building leverage because what we are up against is not just a president or a party; it is a project.
ICE agents forced their way into the home of ChongLy "Scott" Thao with guns and no warrant and took him outside in his underwear in the cold.
Protestors showed up at the church of a pastor who is also an ICE field director. Things didn't go well, and Don Lemon got blamed for it all.
This administration is not just targeting immigrants. It is dismantling the infrastructure that has allowed Black institutions to survive and thrive by attacking from multiple directions at once.
When Claudette Colvin left this world on January 13th, with her went a library, a recipe box, and a curriculum we still don't understand how to follow.
Dr. King’s dream was not an invitation to complacency; it was a call to arms of the spirit. A call to organize, to resist, to transform.
Few ever grapple with the true crux of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s work and the clarion call he and others had for jobs and justice.
Shawn and Destiny Jackson of Minneapolis say they and their children were on their way home when ICE agents tear-gassed their car.
What Trump and so many of his supporters and conservatives refuse to accept is that Black people can’t be racist, nor can “reverse discrimination” exist in America.