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Brooke Harris loved her job teaching eighth grade at an inner-city charter school in Michigan -- but Brooke says she was fired for teaching her kids about Trayvon Martin, an African-American teen who was recently shot and killed because someone thought he looked suspicious. Brooke's kids had heard about Trayvon, and she saw they wanted to know more in part because they identified with him: "They are young, black and brown kids who walk to the corner store after school every day," Brooke says. "They've been stopped by police because they 'looked like' some kids who did something illegal." Many of Brooke's students wanted to go beyond writing essays and classroom discussions -- they wanted to raise money for Trayvon's family. For helping the kids plan the fundraiser, Brooke says that she was suspended and eventually fired, and that she was told, "you're a teacher, not an activist." Now there's a petition on Change.org d...

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"Jiwe, by his own admission, is a work in progress as well. His evolution has been chronicled in the acclaimed documentary, “Brick City,” a reality-based documentary that peels back the different layers of Newark, New Jersey. Jiwe is also working as a budding actor in a play (onehour2live.net) in which a gang banger faces his last day alive.   AllHipHop.com caught up with the man once known in the streets as Machete and realized that he’s the change that was so promoted a year ago by a presidential aspirant.     AllHipHop.com: What made you decide to write your book, “War of the Bloods In My Veins?”   Jiwe: A combination of things. The death of a good homie of mines in Lil City E.O., then the birth of my daughter Dashana. Mind you I was in jail fighting 1st degree attempted murder charges. I was locked down in the hole for 23 hours a day. So that is the place where I began digging deep within, searching for answers no one had but God. I became furious, angry, miserable, sad, l...

Each year, close to a million Americans are arrested for possessing marijuana, and many millions more are targeted and searched by police on suspicion of being a marijuana user. It's an incredible waste of limited law enforcement resources, and the experience of being harassed, arrested, and slapped with a criminal record isn't exactly getting rave reviews from anyone either. Heck, even cops are getting sick of this idiocy. I've spent several years teaching the public how to deal with police. I've heard more than my share of horror stories from people who froze up when confronted by the cops and soon found themselves in the back of a squad car. When that happens, chances are it wasn't because they hurt someone, but rather, because they possessed a small amount of marijuana. Now that half the nation is in favor of legalizing marijuana, there is hope that we'll soon see a day when none of us are placed in handcuffs for having a little pot in our pockets. But ...

RAMARLEY LINDEN GRAHAM in the Bronx. & I think some light needs to be shined on that. He was 18, UNARMED & MURDERED in front of his 6 yr old brother && grandma by the NYPD. Rest in Paradise hun ♥ Justice will be served. On Feb. 18, I attended the funeral of Ramarley Graham at Crawford Memorial United Methodist Church in the Bronx. This stately gothic sanctuary overlooks White Plains Road just blocks up from where my older son had spent many weekends with the family of Chris, his best friend in daycare. The dead young man I’d come to honor could easily have been Chris’ 15-year-old son. Or Warren’s son. Or Eric’s. Or any young man struggling to grow up honest and courageous in this neighborhood. I bowed my head and tried to come to terms with feelings of fear and anger. For on Feb. 2, two NYC police officers followed Mr. Graham to his apartment building, kicked in the door and shot the young man in the chest in front of his 6-year-old brother. The gun he wa...