Police Brutality

May is Mental Health Month. Since its creation in 1949 by the National Association for Mental Health, now known as Mental Health America (MHA),...

We can, apparently, breathe a sigh of relief because U.S. systemic racism is a thing of the past. It is according to South Carolina Republican...

As the country watches the murderer of George Floyd stand trial, 10 miles away, police shoot and kill another black man in Minnesota. A...

Derek Chauvin, the officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds heads to trial today.  The trial will be...

A spoiler-free review of the movie “American Skin.” Injustice. Anger and unspeakable grief. Chaos and consequences. “American Skin,” released January 15, tackles the relevant and painful issues...

Muralist, Sydney G. James During this time of Strange Fruit, Artist, and Muralist, Sydney G. James has found a way to hang her frustrations by...

Former President Barack Obama spoke out live Wednesday for the first time since the start of the national unrest over the killing of George...

Now it is Baltimore.  There Freddie Gray, a black man, was stopped on the street, pinned to the ground, dragged to the back of...

The second half of 2014 has been marked by the shooting deaths of four African-American males by local law enforcement -- Michael Brown in...

*Today, LAPD Police Chief Charlie Beck was right. The Chief fired disgraced LAPD Detective Frank Lyga who had been found guilty, at an administrative Board of Rights (BOR), of making racist remarks and disparaging comments.  As a retired LAPD sergeant and often vocal critic of the Los Angeles Police Department, I thought it important to […]