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A Wounded Nation: Why We Can’t Give Up in the Fight for Justice
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A Wounded Nation: Why We Can’t Give Up in the Fight for Justice

Kamala Harris, Special to the SentinelJune 3, 2020

As our fellow Californians and Americans protest across our country, we must not lose sight of why they are protesting. It’s because of a deep pain that we recognize all too well. The pain of not confronting a dark history that has spanned the life of our country. The pain of recognizing our fathers, uncles, brothers, mothers, sisters, and aunts in the faces of so many Black men and women who were taken from us because of racism and violence.

Is Continuing Injustice Grounds A Call for Arms?
Larry AubryOpinion

Is Continuing Injustice Grounds A Call for Arms?

Larry AubryDecember 27, 2018

Black Lives have always mattered but Black people do not always act like it. Most Blacks know racism still exists but are conditioned to feel inferior to whites and often become complicit in their own oppression. I write about this periodically, because Blacks’ collective silence reinforces the barriers to their own wellbeing. While high-profile cases grab headlines and heartstrings, temporarily, other less heralded, but equally egregious, ongoing atrocities against Black people have become a crippling norm. (Public education’s failure to educate Black students and Black homeowners disproportionately suffering foreclosures as a result of the economic meltdowns, for example, are in some ways just as egregious as high profile cases of police killing unarmed Black men and boys.

Sustaining Righteous Community Outrage
Larry AubryOpinion

Sustaining Righteous Community Outrage

Larry AubryAugust 23, 2018

Righteous outrage must be sustainable.it is necessary to bring about the political pressure crucial for actual long range change.  Of course, ultimately, it is the responsibility of the Black community itself to forge its own future which requires new mindsets and most important, new behavior. Developing sustainable righteous outrage is only one of other important tasks that collectively, we must undertake as part of a self-determined Black agenda.

Straight Talk About Injustices
Larry Aubry

Straight Talk About Injustices

Larry AubryNovember 16, 2017

Terrible de-humanizing injustices have been visited on Black people in the United States, but there is never a good reason to collaborate in one’s own destruction.

Protesters Shut Down 405
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Protesters Shut Down 405

Sentinel News ServiceDecember 29, 2015

Nine protesters were arrested last week for staging a demonstration on the southbound San Diego (405) Freeway in Inglewood, spray-painting slogans on the pavement and forcing a roughly 20-minute closure of the roadway on a busy holiday-getaway travel day. The protest began at 1:27 p.m. on the southbound 405 Freeway near Manchester Boulevard, said Sgt. Paul Peterson of the West Los Angeles California Highway Patrol Office. “They painted names, words and slogans including `Black Lives Matter’ on the surface of all five lanes of pavement,” Peterson said. They used several colors of spray paint. The graffiti also included the word

March for Justice on Crenshaw
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March for Justice on Crenshaw

Sentinel Staff ReportDecember 29, 2015

More than 1,000 enthusiastic advocates for Black unity, peace and justice marched from Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. to Leimert Park on Saturday, Feb. 21. The march came on the heels of the highly publicized, and fatal, shootings of several unarmed Black men including 25 year-old mentally ill Los Angeles resident, Ezell Ford.

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A Mother Speaks on the Murder of her Son: “I’m trying not to be bitter and not allow myself to wallow in grief or misery.”

Thandisizwe Chimurenga, Contributing WriterSeptember 9, 2015

Ezell Ford was shot and killed by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Officers Sharlton Warmpler and Antonio Villegas on Aug. 11, 2014. A 10-month investigation culminated in the Los Angeles Police Commission, the body that oversees the LAPD, ruling that Warmpler was “unjustified to open fire on Ford … wrong to draw his weapon, and had used unacceptable tactics” when the two officers observed Ford walking down 65th Street near Broadway in South Los Angeles, as reported by the L.A. Times.