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On July 6, 2016, at 9:05 p.m., in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, near where Fry Street arrives at Larpenteur Avenue and stops, Philando Castile, his girlfriend Diamond Reynolds and Reynolds’ 4-year-old daughter were pulled over by Jeronimo Yanez and Joseph Kauser of the St. Anthony Police Department. Continue Reading
“Right now, we are being governed from a deficit perspective. [People say] ‘we need to be fixed, there are things that are wrong, and things are just desolate and bad.’ Whereas governing from an asset or strength-based perspective takes [our] gems and builds them up.” Continue Reading
In certain circles, shooting an unarmed person of color in front of a child is only awful if we can prove that the victim deserved to live. For them, respectability sources the right to draw air. Continue Reading