…the phone rang.When the phone rang so early in the morning, it oftentimes meant somebody was dead. An elderly person had passed in the night. A Friday night traffic fatality. The families of deceased would...

Ask yourself this question: Of this had been a white child found dead in a black neighborhood, would they be knocking on every door? ‘Yes, sir.’ Searching high and low? ‘Yes, indeed.’ It this had...

Familiar words for dead black boys portrayed as complicit in their own demise. Michael Donald’s body had been hanged on a Mobile street, and the police were doing the same thing to his name.

Unfortunately, honesty hasn’t always been a part of the job description for the police force, especially when dealing with our people. Today I must appeal to their sense of integrity, because we need the Mobile...