Tag: gentrification

On Reparations, Gentrification, the Role of Police, and Other Intellectual Pursuits

Post author By Anne
Post date Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
4 Comments on On Reparations, Gentrification, the Role of Police, and Other Intellectual Pursuits

I know all you bookish and clever women have read quite a bit over the last year. What’s the hardest/best thing you’ve read lately?

Tags climate change, gentrification, NYPD, perspectives, police, politics, prison culture, reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates, unions

Op Ed

Why Do We Call These Shootings Senseless?

Post author By Rebecca Reilly
Post date Wednesday, September 18th, 2013
1 Comment on Why Do We Call These Shootings Senseless?

I made my last delivery as a bike messenger to Washington, D.C.’s Navy Yard in 2002. I rode up to the front gate at 8th and M St. SW, showed the security guard my ID, which then he handed it back to me and I was on my way.

Tags gentrification, gun violence, mass shootings, Navy Yard shootings, senseless violence