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Defund the Police, Invest in Communities

Local governments have a revenue problem, while America has a policing problem. There’s a simple solution.

Freedom of expression, Zuckerberg style.

I don’t feel safe going back to work, but the state of Texas is forcing me to put my health and my family at risk.

We don’t know who’s carried out violence and vandalism or why. We do know police keep killing unarmed black Americans.

African Americans were already reeling from COVID-19 when a new wave of police violence hit us.

As a Catholic sister, I think Trump should read his Bible, not pose with it.

My civil rights movement colleagues were murdered in the 1960s, when lynching was common. Sadly, it remains so today.

Gun-toting quarantine protesters are called “very good people,” while unarmed people protesting police violence are “thugs.”

Call it political brutality.

Trump’s education secretary is trying to funnel coronavirus aid away from poor public schools to rich private ones.