By Ameer Hasan Loggins From the body-cam of a police officer in Rochester, New York, I watched a sickening scene unfold. The officer was in pursuit of someone fleeing on foot through the snow. I could not make out who the person was. All I was able to see was…

By Ameer Hasan Loggins The news of off-duty police officers from around the country making the pernicious pilgrimage to Washington D.C. to participate in the armed and deadly takeover of the United States Capitol should come as a shock to no one. …

by Ameer Hasan Loggins The sound of silence surrounding the Capitol coup d’état is deafening by one of Trump’s most prominent groups of “friends” and financial supporters — the team owners in the NFL. Aloud, the NFL has gone to great lengths to align its league with frontstage performances of…

For centuries, we’ve had our freedoms ripped from us. But like our ancestors, we resist. — This article is part of Abolition for the People, a series brought to you by a partnership between Kaepernick Publishing and LEVEL, a Medium publication for and about the lives of Black and Brown men. The series, composed of 30 essays and conversations over four weeks, points to the crucial…

Since before this country’s founding, Black women have been treated as vulnerable—and disposable — 12:38 a.m. was the last peaceful minute of Breonna Taylor’s life. On March 13, 2020, at 12:38 a.m., Breonna Taylor and her partner, Kenneth Walker, were asleep in bed. At 12:39 a.m., officers beat on her door for approximately one minute. During that 59 seconds of banging, Taylor shouted at…

An email was leaked the other day. In it, the sender praised the police, and wrote that people protesting in honor of George Floyd were involved in a “terrorist movement.” I repeat, the writer wrote that the protesters were involved in a terrorist movement. The person responsible was the president…

On the twenty-sixth of January, in 2020, Kobe Bean Bryant died. He died in a helicopter crash in the foggy hills of Calabasas, California. Nine people were on the copter — a pilot and eight passengers. Kobe’s thirteen-year-old daughter Gianna Maria Onore Bryant was one of the passengers onboard the…

Colin Kaepernick is a person. This seems like an obvious statement. But on countless occasions I see this person being treated like a thing. Colin, the person, has been reduced to an acerbic adjective for his antagonists. His detractors evoke his name with overtones of repugnance and disgust. His name…