Mothers of the Movement is used to describe Black Mothers who lost children to gun violence

The gun violence comes from within the community and from the police.

The mothers tell stories of the difficulty of forming bonds with the police department 

Investment in the community is a priority 

Some support defunding the police to reinvest in the community

From the article:

Furthermore it appears it is neither a democracy nor a republic, but a totalitarian organization?

He has a background of actually having worked with the homeless, so this an exceptionally worthwhile read

From WaPo

In the early ‘70s, in the shadow of the civil rights era, Kenneth Chenault often stayed up late talking with other Black students at Bowdoin College in Maine about how to fight for racial equality. Most argued you needed to push from the outside. They wanted to become activists and educators. Chenault was different. He thought it was best to work from inside the corridors of power, recalled former classmate Geoffrey Canada.

“We didn’t think you could knock those doors down,” Canada said.

Chenault did. He went on to run American Express for 17 years, one of just 19 Black chief executives ever at a Fortune 500 company.

yes, rare is a good word to use, this is highly unusual:

My working thesis: most people who have been cancelled were yesterday's heroes. Love him or hate him, Jordan Peterson represents the future of ideas.