https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to philando castile en https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/18/good-guy-gun-myth On the windy bluffs of Weehawken, New Jersey, overlooking Manhattan, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr regard one another coldly. In awful synchrony, the pair raise their flintlock pistols, each one squinting down the barrel. Two sharp reports, and Hamilton collapses… Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:04:02 EDT Carlos Wilton 032aa329-b153-4dd4-b9f7-a66e59cd5626 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/13/when-auschwitz-becomes-poke-stop Last week we watched death on our smartphones. We witnessed the light drain out of Philando Castile’s eyes and we knew that the stillness of Alton Sterling’s body after the bullets were fired was that of death. We watched. On… Wed, 13 Jul 2016 02:26:43 EDT Karen E. Park f83b6fb9-d2fe-4481-b3d0-bf460d747b72 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/12/who-prays-soul-war-finds-no-refuge “We are innocent people, Lord.” So prayed Diamond Reynolds as police handcuffed her and put her and her four-year-old daughter into a police car. Officer Jeronimo Yanez had just fatally shot her boyfriend Philando Castile, a cafeteria supervisor for one… Tue, 12 Jul 2016 03:58:10 EDT Paula Cooey a7881cc7-5993-42f9-a63e-b5658c153c6c https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/11/america-willing-be-freed-its-demons There is a poignant story in the gospel of Mark where Jesus encounters a young man tormented by a demon. The boy’s father, who desperately wants Jesus’ disciples to help him, has reached the point of exhaustion. The disciples cannot… Mon, 11 Jul 2016 05:37:34 EDT Willie James Jennings 60a746a9-c69e-4002-a34e-755ddf7879c2 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/10/fire-time I know. You want me to say something profound, the hard thing. You want me to say something passionate, something to rally you, something to make you feel like there is hope, and that we’re going to change. But that’s not what this piece is about. Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:19:22 EDT Anthea Butler a5261ba9-4829-4a5a-87c0-f2bd06a655cf https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/10/post-dallas-challenge-religious-progressives-staying-message-about-structural-racism The easily-predicted meme of the moment coming from law enforcement officials and their many political allies is a threefold rebuke to the entire criminal justice reform movement—not just #BlackLivesMatter but all of us who consider fighting the mass criminalization of… Sun, 10 Jul 2016 08:00:00 EDT Peter Laarman 2d0fc293-56d3-4676-8e9c-4264ec906551 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/10/problem-we-all-live-bearing-witness-never-finding-justice We do not love ourselves. We have become cavalier with each other’s lives and we, as a nation, have not yet decided that we have reached the point where we will now practice willful and strategic eradication of the complex… Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:34:03 EDT Emilie M. Townes 3cb3b705-2189-4ded-b533-8aa778d960a4 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/08/blacklivesmatterstill-we-cannot-let-anyone-else-define-our-movement Words are insufficient. Words—like horror, atrocity and domestic terrorism—are inadequate. Words—like sin, evil and blasphemy—are wholly lacking. “Violence is woven into the fabric of our country. Violence has been deployed against black folk from the moment we arrived on this… Fri, 08 Jul 2016 08:14:15 EDT Wil Gafney a7ab597b-9f3e-4b3e-a815-b2c2fe89ce21