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“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the...
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“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” ― James Baldwin The city of Baltimore has reached a settlement with the family of Freddie Gray for $6.4 million, to be paid out over a two-year period. On Wednesday, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake...
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“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room When Gwinnett County booking photos of brothers Christopher and Cameron Ervin, 22 and 17, respectively, began to pop up in my social media newsfeeds, with captions explaining how they had attempted to kill their...
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“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. —James Baldwin The man we will forever know as Eddie King, Jr., Eddie Kane, Jr. for the...
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On Thursday afternoon, an 11 year-old-boy and his 4-year-old sister were left home alone. Two suspects attempted to break in on two separate occasions. On the 3rd try, they gained entry into the residence. But to their surprise, an 11-year-old boy shot the 16-year-old intruder in the head, fatally...
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time I don’t sleep well. At all. So, in the wee hours of the...
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“People pay for what they do…” ― James Baldwin But not always the right people. UPDATE (2:37 A.M): It turns out that the DeKalb County officer who was shot in the leg on Monday night had responded to the wrong home after receiving a call to the 1500 block of...
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“Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden,’ Jacques said. And then, ‘I wonder why.” ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room Monday morning, just before 8 o’clock, Sonja Wells Raine of Moss Point, Miss. was shot and killed by her husband at her workplace, a WIC office she managed in...
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“It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less.” ― James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985 Sudden death is a mother, I don’t care where it lands. Shannon J. Miles, 30, is in custody in Texas on...
“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the...
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” ― James Baldwin The city of Baltimore has reached a settlement with the family of Freddie Gray for $6.4 million, to be paid out over a two-year period. On Wednesday, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake...
“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room When Gwinnett County booking photos of brothers Christopher and Cameron Ervin, 22 and 17, respectively, began to pop up in my social media newsfeeds, with captions explaining how they had attempted to kill their...
“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. —James Baldwin The man we will forever know as Eddie King, Jr., Eddie Kane, Jr. for the...
On Thursday afternoon, an 11 year-old-boy and his 4-year-old sister were left home alone. Two suspects attempted to break in on two separate occasions. On the 3rd try, they gained entry into the residence. But to their surprise, an 11-year-old boy shot the 16-year-old intruder in the head, fatally...
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time I don’t sleep well. At all. So, in the wee hours of the...
“People pay for what they do…” ― James Baldwin But not always the right people. UPDATE (2:37 A.M): It turns out that the DeKalb County officer who was shot in the leg on Monday night had responded to the wrong home after receiving a call to the 1500 block of...
“Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden,’ Jacques said. And then, ‘I wonder why.” ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room Monday morning, just before 8 o’clock, Sonja Wells Raine of Moss Point, Miss. was shot and killed by her husband at her workplace, a WIC office she managed in...
“It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less.” ― James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985 Sudden death is a mother, I don’t care where it lands. Shannon J. Miles, 30, is in custody in Texas on...
