I think it’s safe to say that tensions are running high across the United States this week. Between the relentless heat pounding parts of the country and the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, we are all feeling the tension and with that tension it brings hair trigger tempers. Can I suggest that we all …
Kimani Gray, 16 Kendrec McDade, 19 Timothy Russell, 43 Ervin Johnson, 18 Amadou Diallo, 23 Patrick Dorsmond, 26 Ousmane Zongo, 43 Timothy Stansbury Jr., 23 Sean Bell, 23 Orlando Barlow, 28 Aaron Campbell, 25 Victor Steen, 17 Steven Eugene Washington, 27 Alonzo Ashley, 29 Wendell Allen, 20 Ronald Madison, 40 James Brisette, 17 Travares McGill, …
Back when the Man Unit and I were still newlyweds almost sixteen years ago, we were returning from the wedding of a mutual friend and her new husband in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago. Not even 10 minutes after returning across the city line and back into Chicago, we encountered what we assumed was a …