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David A. Love

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ContrabandCamp •

Amanda Wallace Once Worked for Child Protective Services. Now She Wants to Abolish It.

Protesting against injustices done to Black people often means not speaking in polite language or striving for respectability. Like those who used ”fighting words” to push for the abolition of slavery—an institution that subjugated Black people and separated families—today’s modern-day abolitionists use rhetoric and actions to galvanize people and provide moral clarity against present-day forms of oppression.In Durham, N.C., Amanda Wallace is fighting the child welfare system, which abolitionist...
ContrabandCamp •

We’re Not Going Back to the Way Things Were. Black America Needs a Vision for the Future

Speaking at Howard University’s Opening Convocation on Sept. 19, Sherrilyn Ifill, the Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Endowed Chair in Civil Rights at Howard Law School, implored new students to remake democracy and give birth to a new America. “We can choose to focus on the passing away of the world we have known, or we can get to work on the new world that will come quickly in its wake,” said Ifill, also the founding director of the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy. “Our faith and our b...
ContrabandCamp •

Capitulating to Trump Will Not Save You. History Has Taught Us How to Fight Back

Despite all the evidence around us, people haven’t learned that bowing down to the American dictator named Trump will not protect them. In the latest example, the tech giant Google is paying Trump $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit Trump filed after the digital platform suspended him following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. It is reported that $22 million will go towards the construction of a new White House ballroom. No one plans that much home renovation unless they plan on sticking ar...
ContrabandCamp •

Black Migrants Brace for Intensified ICE Raids and Mass Deportations Under Trump

When the Trump administration announced it was terminating the temporary protective status of the more than 500,000 Haitian migrants as early as Sept. 2, it was a reminder that ICE raids have everything to do with Black people, both migrants and citizens. While a federal judge blocked Trump’s order—which would have prematurel…

When the Trump administration announced it was terminating the temporary protective status of the more than 500,000 Haitian migrants as early as Sept. 2, it was a reminde...
ContrabandCamp •

How the Growth of AI is Endangering the Health of Black People

A battle is brewing across the country involving AI technology, the environment and the health and well-being of Black people. As demand for AI technology grows, tech companies are building large data centers to power and operate their AI products. And these data centers — powered primarily by fossil fuels that pollute the environment with toxic chemicals — are being built disproportionately in Black neighborhoods with long histories of health problems stemming from environmental racism.
ContrabandCamp •

5 Years After George Floyd: Will We Ever Get True Police Reform?

Trump is making good on his promise to sic the police on Black America and allow the paddy rollers to run roughshod over us. Trump’s recent executive order on law enforcement brings clarity to policing’s role in a white supremacist fascist regime. Long story short: Trump will allow police to brutalize us with no accountability, provide legal pro bono representation to cops who brutalize, prosecute state and local officials who pursue DEI policies in law enforcement, and unleash the military in t...
ContrabandCamp •

How Trump’s War on the Federal Government Will Stifle Black Progress

As Trump’s MAGA administration proceeds with the mass firing of thousands of government workers — a federal appeals court recently paved the way for Trump to fire roughly 25,000 probationary employees — what is missing from the discussion is that this war on the government is a war on Black progress. After all, government jobs built the Black middle class.The federal government is the nation’s largest employer, with around three million workers. Black people are nearly 14% of the U.S. population...
ContrabandCamp •

Trump Is Already Trying to Undermine the 2026 Elections

Trump is signing these executive orders as fast as the Christofascists at Project 2025 can draft them in White Jesus’ name. And this latest executive order on elections is some Jim Crow shit on steroids, all designed to keep the dictator and his party in power in 2026 and beyond. We would expect nothing less from those who are heavily and messily engaged in the Devil’s work.The order, which Trump signed on March 25, claims to “protect the integrity of American elections.” When MAGA Republicans p...
ContrabandCamp •

The ICE Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Step in Dismantling Free Speech in America

Mahmoud Khalil was snatched up by the feds. And we should all be concerned about this because we are next.A Palestinian man who was one of the leaders of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University last year, Khalil was illegally abducted by ICE agents and sent to an immigration facility in Louisiana. A recent graduate of Columbia University with a master’s degree from the School of International and Public Affairs, Khalil is a permanent U.S. resident whose pregnant wife is a U.S. citize...
The Eagle's Eye •

Recognizing Black History in Journalism

During Periods 11 and 12 on Wednesday, February 27, Journalism and Media students along with Eagle’s Eye staff members and Black Student Union officers flocked to the auditorium to hear journalist and Rutgers Professor David Love speak about Black history and the importance of journalism. An alumnus of Harvard University, UPenn, and Oxford, Love’s presentation was full of details that reflected his extensive education.
“We first met him at GSSPA, and it was clear he had a passion and a significa...
ContrabandCamp •

Sankofa: How the History of Black Liberation Movements Prepares Us for This Moment

Sankofa is a term packed with a lot of meaning, and it means a great deal for Black people today as these MAGA folks are working in earnest to erase us — from history, society, politics, civic life, the economy and all aspects of America. But we have been here before. A Twi word from the Akan people of Ghana, Sankofa means “go back and get it,” or as my Gullah-Geechee folks would say, “Go bak and fetch it.” Aterall, like the proverb says, if oonuh ent kno weh oonuh dah gwine, oonuh should kno we...
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TheGrio •

10 years after the killing of Mike Brown, the police still need defunding

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.
Ten years after Ferguson, and the police are still here. Little has changed, and policing still isn’t working out very well for us.It is hard to believe that a full decade has passed since the police killed Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the uprisings and protests that grew out of that. On Aug. 9, 2014, police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed the unarmed 18-y...
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