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Big Gratitude to Rico Morales, New Alley Board Member!
Rico Morales, newest Alley Communications Board Member, resident in Phillips Community for 31 years, renter in permanent supportive housing. In a recent conversation with Rico Morales at Pow Wow Grounds between an existing board member and Rico, they talked about why Rico joined the Alley Communications Board in February. Here’s some of what he had to say: “I was invited to join the Alley Board, the invitation felt like an opportunity to be celebrated rather than tolerated. My participation, presence, and very existence will make new pathways to dismantling White Supremacy.” Rico went on to describe what he thought were the most important stories to be amplified in the alley: BIPOC storiesStories of recoveryRestoration or restorative justice storiesStories of success There are exciting contributions that Rico is already making to the Alley Board like his passion for bringing in new voices, his energy and good ideas. One of the specific improvements Rico is working on [...]
Something I Said: Black Women’s Lives Matter
By DWIGHT HOBBES Dwight Hobbes Black women’s lives matter. Shouldn’t be necessary to say but consider. Rodney King, George Floyd and Tyre Nichols are names no one is likely to ever forget. Not so, the likes of Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland and scores more who are just as dead at the hand of ruthlessly racist so-called law enforcement. Don’t think so? Consider. St. Paul citizen Nekeya Moody, in 2020, died after Ramsey County deputies responded to a 911 call reporting her as having a panic attack. In a subsequent lawsuit her mother said it was due to excessive force and indifference to her medical needs. The medical examiner cited excited delirium, an excuse Minneapolis police tried with the murder of George Floyd but the American Medical Association debunks as unheard of outside cops trying to get off the hook. That same year, a half-dozen Louisville Metro Police officers forced their way into Breonna Taylor’s home, investigating drug dealing ten miles away, and shot [...]
