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A bag of fresh cherries can be a reminder and a call to action

“Most of all, I feel that I cannot be complicit in any way when I’ve seen so many examples of soldiers and police acting in bad faith,” he said via an encrypted text message.

Che envisioned a new medicine, with doctors who would serve the greatest number of people with preventive care and public awareness of hygiene.

Protesters are in the streets demonstrating against police brutality and white supremacy to protect themselves and their communities because institutions have been killing black people in this country far longer than the coronavirus has.

Organized labor is a direct threat to white supremacy. We need to put that threat into action.

The latest in an historically fraught relationship among police, labor and civil rights movement

The decision to hold “Live PD” and “Cops” comes as protests over police brutality continue across the nation following the killing of George Floyd by Minnesota police officers

“Can we come up with a situation where there are fewer killings, and fewer collateral consequences?”

To achieve . . . structural change will require the rapid development of new forms of leadership and new organizational structures for the protest movement.

Conrad Worrill was a writer, educator, founding member of the National Black United Front, former host of WVON program "On Target" and Crusader columnist.