Former President Barack Obama joined the National Newspaper Publishers Association, the NAACP, the National Urban League, and others to applaud the guilty verdicts in the Derek Chauvin case. For almost a year, George Floyd’s death under the knee of a…
In December, I was honored to be sworn in as Kentucky’s 51st Attorney General, the first Black man to hold the position, the first to be named chief law enforcement officer of the Commonwealth, and the first to be independently…
America watched in utter disbelief as an officer surrounded by his co-workers, put his knee on the neck of an African American male until he died. This was not a movie made for TV but an outright murder that took…
Far too many law enforcement officers, from rookies to the highest ranking, view African Americans as ‘dogs,’ and some punch in believing “it’s a good day for a chokehold.” Others believe women in ‘hijabs’ are tantamount to “trash bags.” Those…
Delucca ‘Lucca’ Rolle, the 15-year-old high school student who was punched and had his head slammed against the concrete by law enforcement officers last month, joined his attorney and several prominent civil rights activists in a peaceful demonstration in Florida…
