Crime is always huge news when it goes up, then basically goes unmentioned when it goes down.

On a related note, did you know car thefts are down 42%, carjacking is down 18%, and shots fired are down 14% in Minneapolis this year?

tomorrow is Jackie Robinson Day. neither Chicago baseball team has a U.S. born Black player. in my latest column i write about that, the state of Black Americans in baseball and nod to the future.

with Curtis Granderson and SMPLonnie:

all chicagoans are born with a choice

I want to put this as gently as possible while still getting my point across.

This is why so many Americans struggle trusting law enforcement. These people proudly stand next to a convicted sexual predator and election denying domestic terrorist and let his campaign use them for…

Around 200 positions districtwide are slated for cuts as the Minneapolis Public Schools grapples with a historic deficit. The cuts are especially painful to schools like Lucy Laney in north Minneapolis. sahanjournal.com/education/minn…

ANYONE CAN FLY, ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS TRY, Faith Ringgold, 2007 #blackarthistory

RIP Faith Ringgold, a dauntless and astonishingly inventive artist, activist, author, illustrator, sculptor, and children’s-book legend. The great ideas just kept coming. She was one of the signal cultural figures of our times.

New tests of Tesla Full Self-Driving’s ability to react to pedestrians.

This time the child-sized mannequin is stationary in the middle of the road. FSD v12.3.3 has nearly 10 seconds to see the child, which FSD registers as a person 5 seconds before it runs the child down.

Yesterday my Republican colleagues passed a bill to report professors for teaching “divisive concepts.”

Instead of answering my questions, the sponsor questioned my literacy and talked about “people of my race.”

Clearly his views were influenced by his segregated schooling.

NEW: The five Chicago police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Dexter Reed after his SUV was pulled over have been investigated a combined 41 times since 2019, many of the complaints stemming from traffic stops. trib.al/hxdQ5fM

This is a scandal. NYC has failed to disclose $1.2 BILLION in NYPD misconduct settlements and judgments since 2013, years-long investigation shows. cityandstateny.com/policy/2024/04…

I'm a board member of Jewish Community Action and want to invite you to its 22nd Annual Freedom Seder this Sunday. We're bringing people together to connect the tradition of Passover to current movements for social justice here in Minnesota.

In-person/Zoom. All Welcome!

jewishcommunityaction.org/events/seder

Police have already killed more than 300 people this year in the US, an average of 3 killings per day. mappingpoliceviolence.us

“You won’t find downtown boosters much bigger than Mpls City Council Member Michael Rainville. […] You might even think such a politician would move heaven, earth, and bureaucratic liquor licensing snarls to enhance entertainment offerings!” -Racket

racketmn.com/michael-rainvi…

We can and must expand our imagination and ideas of what is possible to create another, better world.

What can we build instead? How can we create systems that support one another and expand our ideas of what keeps us safe and well?
millionexperiments.com

Art by Monica Trinidad

Really strange that Council Member Rainville would openly lobby his Mill District constituents in opposition of a new bar opening next door to an existing bar.

This just sort of feels like it’s about the new bar being a Black-owned Afrobeat lounge in a mostly white neighborhood.

A native Minneapolitan is working to overcome roadblocks he's hit in opening an Afrobeat bar and lounge, including opposition from a small but vocal group of residents who claim it’s not a good fit for their quiet Mill District neighborhood. downtownvoices.news/posts/afrobeat…

Police and politicians responded to the largest protest movement in US history by:
- increasing police budgets and pay
- increasing police killings of civilians
- gutting institutions giving communities even a little bit of power to stop them

he said 'no comment' 😆