Sharon Kyle: Clearly, for some, protecting the 2nd Amendment is more important than protecting the lives of children. But for many, this unyielding devotion to the amendment is hard to understand.
Sharon Kyle, JD
Sharon Kyle is a former president of the Guild Law School and is the publisher and co-founder of the LA Progressive. For years before immersing herself in the law and social justice, Ms. Kyle was a member of several space flight teams at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she managed resources for projects like Magellan, Genesis, and Mars Pathfinder. Sharon also sits on several boards including the Board of Directors of the ACLU and is on the editorial board of the BlackCommentator.com. Follow @SharonKyle00
White Supremacy: An American Belief System
Sharon Kyle: White supremacy isn’t just a right-wing belief–no, it is mainstream and has been since the birth of the nation (no pun intended).
Toni Morrison Dies at 88
Sharon Kyle: Morrison’s life experience as a black woman born during the Jim Crow period and raised during the transition from state sanctioned segregation to socially sanctioned segregation was expressed in all of her writings.
Galveston Police Put Black Man on a Leash
Sharon Kyle: The Galveston Police Department does not deny the accuracy of the photograph, instead, they attempt to deny that Mr. Neely was being led by a leash.
Does Your Representative Support Impeachment?
Sharon Kyle: So what is stopping us from moving forward on an impeachment inquiry? The answer is that there haven’t been enough congressional representatives to stand up and say they will support one.
Lawless Police
Sharon Kyle: At least 85,000 law enforcement officers across the United States have been investigated or disciplined for misconduct over the past decade for violations including rape and molestation.
Election Results November 2018
he California election results are updated as often as new data is received from county elections offices after the polls close at 8:00 p.m. on Election Day. Many ballots are not counted on Election Day; county elections officials plan to complete their work by December 7, 2018. As of this morning, 100% of the precincts […]
Mushroom Mario Kart?
Sharon Kyle: I’m long past the time in my life when cartoon characters like MushroomMario Kart mean anything to me. Heck, I didn’t even know what the thing looked like so I had to Googled it.
Dearest Aretha, You Made Your Mark
Sharon Kyle: That was the essence of her magic. Her authenticity, her unyielding commitment to be who she was, the courage she showed in stepping onto the international stage without conforming to anyone’s standards but her own–that and more made her our queen.
Ableism Normalizes Discrimination Against the Disabled
I don’t know if you have to experience discrimination, first hand, in order to be able to see it, but I do know that I learned a when my uncle became wheelchair bound 20 years ago. For that reason, I have hope that maybe the Civil Rights Division under the Obama administration will do what it has often failed to do in the past – provide a line of defense for this country’s most vulnerable people.
Biggest Jailer in the World: Los Angeles
Sharon Kyle: The vision is to equip the Civilian Oversight Commission with the power to subpoena records and to compel the testimony of deputies and their superiors accused of wrongdoing—hence the initiative.
Centrality of Race
Sharon Kyle: While it is true that the United States no longer imposes overt state-sanctioned apartheid, the truth is it doesn’t have to. Its socially sanctioned apartheid systems are just as effective.
Searching for Lost Children
Sharon Kyle: Former slave Frederic Douglass writes that the single greatest fear harbored by every slave was being separated from their children or having their children taken from them, destined for the auction block.
