"The Equality in Policing Act (formally named The Uniform Reporting Law Enforcement Improvement Act (URLEIA)) has everything we need to retool America's system of policing on a national level," states Jerroll Sanders-President of non-profit, ONUS, Inc. 

Black people in America have faced over 400 years of oppression in this country. As people of African ancestry, known as African Americans, we have suffered in silence long enough. Even though we have made gains, institutional systemic racism still exists.  Racism is a learned behavior, it’s taught, and as a school system, we teach. Just like we teach students in the classrooms and in schoolhouses, we must also teach our students in the classroom of life.

In the face of an unstable mutating virus and the uncertainty of an effective vaccine, global public health protocols have been sensibly advocating the importance of a healthy immune system, personal hygiene, physical distancing, wearing masks, testing widely, contact tracing, patient isolation and treatment. Caribbean countries have been augmenting the facilities, staffing, equipment and supplies at their treatment centers.

Too many whites on the right and left only want to listen to Blacks who agree with them on everything.

First, learn what racism is, and what it’s not. I need White people to understand that all White people are racist.

In the midst of the murder of George Floyd, the fires rage across the United States of America. The South Florida Black Prosperity Alliance understands the pent-up rage within our community as Black people - men and women - continue to be murdered by those who have decided that it is open season.

On October 16, 2017, I penned a column entitled TIME FOR CHANGE NOW.

The past two weeks have witnessed unprecedented fervor in nationwide and international protests sparked by the extra judicial killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd.  The failure of leadership which contributed significantly to the alarming death toll of more than 100,000 persons in the United States, with Blacks disproportionately accounting for approximately 30% of those killed by the global pandemic, fueled people’s uncertainty and anxiety and created the perfect firestorm for protests to erupt at the unmasking of systemic and institutionalized racism in the United States.  With such a sobering start to Caribbean-American Heritage Month, is there a reason to celebrate?

Dear Friends of District 8,

Over the past two weeks, our country has been devastated and driven to action – not just by the senseless deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, but by all the deaths that came before for which there was no justice or accountability.

Sometimes things in America are simple and easy.

I have the utmost respect for the public officials who are taking the time to listen, learn, and hear from the communities they represent. 

As a Human