Issues resulting from the #BlackLivesMatter protest at MOA are not complex
Pursuit of such cases amounts to a misuse of prosecutorial discretion and a waste of judicial resources and taxpayer dollars.
Nekima Levy-Pounds
Nekima Levy-Pounds is a law professor at the University of St. Thomas and the director of the Community Justice Project, an award-winning civil rights legal clinic. She is also chairwoman and a founder of Brotherhood, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to breaking the cycles of poverty and incarceration facing young black men in the Twin Cities.
Minneapolis Public Schools: The system needs a reboot
We must become more engaged and inquisitive about what is happening within our public school system as a whole, and in particular why students in MPS are falling through the cracks.
It’s time for a paradigm shift in public education
For far too many of our youths, graduating from high school is a goal that appears out of reach.
50 years after the March on Washington: It’s time to arise to today’s civil-rights challenges
We are living in an era in which discrimination is now much more difficult to detect, yet disparities in wealth, health, education, and income show that racism still exists.
Education-reform debate puts spotlight on institutional racism
The longer we continue to use poverty as an excuse for our failure to properly educate and prepare all of our students, the more challenges we will face as a state.
Young black men in Minnesota: A clarion call for help
A look at the statistics surrounding the quality of life for young African-American men point to a picture that is bleak and difficult to ignore.
