Bodies. How afraid we are for our children. How afraid we are for our loved ones on a daily basis. Amy between the world and me. Thats the title of the explosive new book i Tanehisi Coates written to his teenage son. It is released after nine churchgoers are killed in South Carolina and the horrifying death of sandra bland, a 28yearold africanamerican woman in texas who was pulled over for not signaling a lane change. In video of her arrest and officer commands are to get out of her car or he would light her up. He welcomed the nations marking the First Anniversary of the Police Killings of eric garner in Michael Brown and Michael Brown. After baltimore erupted in protest over the death of freddie gray in police custody. Even for those of us who escaped those neighborhoods, even those who are able to live in better places, the threat never quite leaves us. Once we are no longer afraid of the neighborhood, it turns out we actually have to have some fear of the very people we pay taxes t
United states today remains the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right, and that is why i will continue fighting and introduce legislation for a medicare for all singlepayer program guaranteeing health care to every man, woman, and child. When we talk about justice. When we talk about the need for all people in america to be treated equally and with dignity , we have got to deal with hard realities. Those realities include the fact today if you can believe it, and i know you can one in four black males can expect to spend time in prison during their lifetime unless we change that dynamic. This is an unspeakable tragedy and this country can no longer ignore that. Blacks are in prison at six times the great of whites. In the report by the department of justice, blacks were three times more likely to be searched during a traffic stop than white motorists. Africanamericans are twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely t
Capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. I love this time of year for so many reasons but one of them is having the Summer Reading list, things i can focus on, things i wanted to read through. A couple things i just just finished that i really enjoyed, i highly recommend just finished a lincoln by ron white, biography of what my favorite people, being from illinois its hard not to be a huge Abram Lincoln fan but this had so much to information that i just didnt know thats i really enjoyed a lincoln. Also growing up in chicago huge cubs fan just finished cubs way, and a really fun story about the last 108 years of struggles for the cubs to find when the world series last year and then walking through literally game by game of the world series. It was a fun read. Once i couldnt put down. I also finished the book recently by eric called it you can keep it. Really referencing the question that mention franklin had walk at independence hall. What selfgovern
Capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. I love this time of year for so many reasons but one of them is having the Summer Reading list, things i can focus on, things i wanted to read through. A couple things i just just finished that i really enjoyed, i highly recommend just finished a lincoln by ron white, biography of what my favorite people, being from illinois its hard not to be a huge Abram Lincoln fan but this had so much to information that i just didnt know thats i really enjoyed a lincoln. Also growing up in chicago huge cubs fan just finished cubs way, and a really fun story about the last 108 years of struggles for the cubs to find when the world series last year and then walking through literally game by game of the world series. It was a fun read. Once i couldnt put down. I also finished the book recently by eric called it you can keep it. Really referencing the question that mention franklin had walk at independence hall. What selfgovern
Capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. I love this time of year for so many reasons but one of them is having the Summer Reading list, things i can focus on, things i wanted to read through. A couple things i just just finished that i really enjoyed, i highly recommend just finished a lincoln by ron white, biography of what my favorite people, being from illinois its hard not to be a huge Abram Lincoln fan but this had so much to information that i just didnt know thats i really enjoyed a lincoln. Also growing up in chicago huge cubs fan just finished cubs way, and a really fun story about the last 108 years of struggles for the cubs to find when the world series last year and then walking through literally game by game of the world series. It was a fun read. Once i couldnt put down. I also finished the book recently by eric called it you can keep it. Really referencing the question that mention franklin had walk at independence hall. What selfgovern