Rekia Boyd
Everyone should see this.
A few months ago, most probably would have believed that Gaines' best course of action was to comply with the police in order to get herself and her children home safely. But "a few months ago" was before Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.
Get up. Dry your tiresome red eyes. Bow down on both knees. Say your prayer. Light your candle.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
As a White person, I will never know the extent of this sort of pain. I can, however, offer some modest advice to other White folks who are trying to figure out how to be good allies on a day like today.
Dante Servin, who fatally shot the unarmed woman in the back of the head in 2012, had faced the possibility of being fired.
Aside from the similarities in the sheer volume of blacks killed by police and those lynched decades before, there remain other staggering parallels between police killings and lynchings.