“And you thought “Taking A Knee” was too much!?!” tweeted the official handle of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAAC). Taking a knee became a worldwide symbol of Black Lives Matter protests. From a story by Stuti Mishra...
The United States has yet to tackle reparations for another glaring injustice: the enslavement of Africans. Though the U.S. apologized for slavery and segregation in 2009, it has never issued redress to the descendants of enslaved people. When it comes to slavery the...
Ella Baker. Joe Biden, prospective president of the United States, stepped to the podium to begin his acceptance speech. His very first sentence was: “Ella Baker, a giant of the civil rights movement, left us with this wisdom: Give people light and they will find a...
PRESS RELEASE Windham / Willimantic NAACP A candidate debate recently was held on WINY featuring incumbent State Representative Ann Dauphinais and her challenger, Christine Rosati Randall. During this debate, the official position of the NAACP seems to have been...
Before we can answer this question and the many more that accompany it, we need to do our homework! Definition: A municipal body composed of citizen representatives charged with the investigation of complaints by members of the public concerning misconduct by police...
Communities across the country are demanding radical, transformative change that moves beyond policing as the key to public safety including immediate harm reduction, comprehensive community safety, abolition, ban chokeholds and strangleholds, require de-escalation,...
