Candace Simpson is a Brooklyn native and a seminary student. She writes for the Black women’s blogging collective, For Harriet. Candace has been an active participant in solidarity actions after the news of recent non-indictments, including co-organizing a Blackout Black Friday demonstration in Brooklyn. Her latest writing focuses on the ways Black women have been made invisible in recent protest coverage and community responses.
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Click on the link below to view a photo essay by the Yale College Black Men’s Union as they voice outward expressions of personal messages to their unborn sons.
Christopher NorrisKelvyn Anderson: Executive Director, Philadelphia Police Advisory CommissionShakeil GreeleyAnton Moore: South Philadelphia activistKeith Wallace: Mike Brown ReenactmentIsiah Thomas: candidate for Philadelphia City Council at-large
Across the United States of America, particularly in the aftermath of the shooting death of Mike Brown and the chocking death of Eric Garner, there’s the belief that the police are out to kill black men. In response to the ever-increasing tension between law enforcement and communities, President Barack Obama has appointed Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey to co-chair a Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Mr. Ramsey has less than 90 days to return a set of recommendations to Mr. Obama.
As all eyes turn towards Philadelphia, a special edition of Black and Bold Voices – a quarterly, online discussion featuring black men around the world and the issues that unite them, powered by Techbook Online and heard exclusively on The Dr. Vibe Show™ – welcomes prominent Philadelphians whose body of work spans the disciplines of policing, civilian oversight, advocacy, the prison industrial complex, technology and improving the public perception of black men.
In this edition of Black and Bold Voices™, the guests were: Kelvyn Anderson, Executive Director, Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission; Greg Brinkley, Retired correctional officer, Graterford Prison; Shakeil Greeley, a 21 year-old senior attending the University of Pennsylvania who was the organizer of The Trail Of Silence Walk; Anton Moore, a South Philadelphia activist; Isaiah Thomas, candidate for Philadelphia City Council; Journalist Christopher Norris, CEO, Techbook Online; and Dr. Vibe, international broadcast journalist, for a live, 1 hour conversation on “Black Men, Police Officers and a Post-Ferguson America.”
Our final conversation of 2014, “Black Men, Police Officers and a Post-Ferguson America,” will take a look at how and why cities should diversify its police forces, what training methods or oversight programs can be implemented to minimize racial bias in policing and what does community policing look like in the 21st century, particularly with the use of technology.
The program agenda was as follows:
– A panel discussion, “Justifiable Fear?: Is it open season on black men/Do black men have a reason to be scared of the police?”
– Interview with Shakeil Greeley, Senior, University of Pennsylvania. “Why are comprehensive databases for fatal officer-involved shootings important?
– Interview with Anton Moore, Millennial Advisor to the Philadelphia Police Department. “Is it time to repeal Stop-and-Frisk nationwide?”
– Interview with Keith Wallace, Student Actorvist, University of California San Diego. “Can Artistic Responses Change the World?”
– Interview with Isaiah Thomas, 2015 Philadelphia City Council Candidate. “What legislation should we be advocating for the aftermath of Ferguson?”
Black and Bold Voices™ is a collaboration between Techbook Online and The Dr. Vibe Show™.
American college graduates have survived both the recession and ho-hum recovery far better than those without a degree, but blacks who finished four years of college are suffering from unemployment rates that are painfully high compared with their white counterparts. Click on the link below to read more.
CNN’s Erin Burnett speaks with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani about the NYPD shooting case. Giuliani was offended by the suggestion that the NYPD is unfairly targeting black people because it’s a racist, almost all-white organization.
Burnett confronted Giuliani with some statistics about blacks being targeted by the police, but Giuliani dismissively said, “Statistics don’t tell you anything.” He wanted to know the specific circumstances of what these black individuals did to warrant them being shot down by cops.
He threw out a statistic of his own, that blacks commit a striking majority of murders. Burnett pushed back and they tussled a bit, with Burnett saying “if you are gonna play statistics that way…” and Giuliani responding, “You’re the one that brought up statistics.”
Though minority and white evangelical Protestants have more in common than any other Christian groups, they are deeply divided on matters of race and justice. Click on the link below to read more.
For some blacks, he is the cranky uncle complaining about young African Americans who, in his view, dress and behave in a way that drags down their race. Click on the link below to read more.
