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ActivismPoliticsRacial Justice

What I Think Allegheny County Should Do to Hold Police Accountable BEFORE They Are Hired

June 18, 2019 by
Police Accountability

Just my personal $.02 here. One issue that arises repeatedly when we are discussing police officers who kill civilians is the failure to ‘catch’ the cops who move from police department to police department because of discipline issues or misconduct or just because they are not good cops. There are two sides to this problem […]

ActivismAdvocacy

Three LGBTQ Black Voices Speak Out About the Shooting of Antwon Rose in Pittsburgh

June 22, 2018 by

Before our local Pride events, a friend contacted me – she’s a journalist and was working on a piece about the intersection of queer and Black identities. She wanted to know if any of our AMPLIFY contributors might be interested in talking with her (because she gets the point of AMPLIFY – to signal boost […]