David A. Love's Blog
David A. Love
- Location
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Birthday
- June 18
- Bio
- David A. Love is a human rights advocate and journalist based in Philadelphia. He is a member of the editorial board of BlackCommentator.com, where his Color of Law column appears weekly. He is a contributor to the Huffington Post, the Progressive Media Project, McClatchy-Tribune News Service, theGrio, News One, In These Times and Philadelphia Independent Media Center. He contributed to the book, States of Confinement: Policing, Detention and Prisons (St. Martin's Press, 2000), and is a former producer of the radio news magazine Democracy Now! Love is also a former spokesperson for the Amnesty International UK National Speakers Tour, and organized the first national police brutality conference as a staff member with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights. He served as a law clerk to two Black federal judges. Love is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He also attended Harvard Business School, and completed the Joint Programme in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
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November 01, 2009 04:35PM - “Ron, the best to you,
your house mate and her
mother. Talk to
you again
soon.”
October 31, 2009 02:31PM - “Thanks FrogTown Diva.
Interesting that Gov. Perry
now calls
Willingham a
monster…”
October 23, 2009 01:42PM - “uzn thanks, I will check
it out!”
October 17, 2009 07:36PM - “Great post Monte, as
always. I too have attended
houses of
worship that try
not…”
October 02, 2009 05:01PM
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Alabama Senator Linked to White Supremacists
Is Oil Worth More Than Blood In Nigeria?
On May 26, 2009, a potentially historic human rights trial will take place in a federal court in New York. At issue: What did Royal Dutch/Shell, the multinational oil giant, do in Nigeria?
The case is over a decade in the making. The suit,… Read full post »
Please Excuse Me While I Grieve For My Son, Ezra
Please excuse me while I grieve for my boy…
The other day I was walking through the maternity ward
At Pennsylvania Hospital,
And a nurse asked me if I was an expectant father.
I told her no, my baby just died.
Later that day, a man asked me if I was expecting a baby,
I… Read full post »
LaVena Johnson:Raped and Murdered on a Military Base in Iraq
Have you heard about the story of LaVena Johnson? Well, maybe
you should read on.
LaVena Johnson, a
high school honor student, decided to enlist in the Army in order
to pay for college. On July 19, 2005, after serving eight weeks in
Iraq, she was killed, just eight days… Read full post »
U.S. Drug Policy has Gone to Pot
In a recent online town hall meeting at the White House, President Obama was asked by the online audience whether he thought legalizing marijuana would create jobs and help the economy. It was the most popular question asked at the meeting. “I don’t know what this says about the online au… Read full post »
To The Fathers Who Lost Their Child
I was hoping they would cancel Father’s Day this year,
mostly because my son Ezra Malik died.
He was my baby boy, and he died the day before he was born, in a
hospital in August of last year. He was a beautiful baby with a
full head of hair… Read full post »
Now the Robber Barons Replace the Welfare Queens
Open Dialogue On Race Part IV
(This is a continuing, open discussion. Parts I and III are on RonP01’s blog, and Part II is on Faith Paulsen’s blog. Please feel free to go back to any of these posts and leave your comments.)
You can view Parts I, II and III of this dialogue… Read full post »
A Homegoing For My Father
My father, Albert C. Love, Jr., died on Sunday, June 28, 2009. I wrote this poem in his honor:
Welcome to my father’s homegoing!
He was a simple man with an extraordinary life,
A Georgia boy, born and raised in a wooden shack in… Read full post »
Plea Bargains In The Criminal McJustice System
In Philadelphia, it is time for a new district attorney. The current D.A. Lynne Abraham is retiring, and none too soon— after 18 years in the position, she has been called “America’s deadliest D.A.” for her exceptionally voracious appetite in seeking the death pen… Read full post »
As the song goes, “If I can make it there, I’ll make
it anywhere, it’s up to you, New York, New York.” The
problem is that if you are counting on making it in New York City,
you could be setting yourself up for disappointment.
A recent report by The Center
for… Read full post »
A Book Review of The Grieving Garden
There is perhaps no greater depth of sorrow one can experience
than the loss of one’s child. It is the type of feeling that
you would not wish on your worst enemy.
Regardless of the age of death – whether a baby, a child or
adult - or the circumstances… Read full post »
Please Don’t Feed the Prison Monster
At its worst, America’s criminal justice system represents the place where racism,… Read full post »
How About a Student Loan Bailout?
The education bubble is going to burst. It has to happen. On a daily basis, we hear about the bursting of the housing bubble. Housing values were over inflated. Millions of people found themselves with mortgages they could not afford to pay—whether through hard times and job loss, racial profil… Read full post »
When the Law is the Crime Being Committed
When a person commits a crime, everyone has an answer as to what
punishment should or should not be meted out. But what do you do
when a law is a crime unto itself, and society is committing the
crime?
I asked myself that question when I recently saw the film The… Read full post »
Southern Governors Block Stimulus Like the Schoolhouse Door
Recently, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) was accused of playing the race card when he characterized Southern governors’ opposition to the $787 billion federal stimulus package as "a slap in the face of African-Americans."
He was referring to the four Republican governors who have opposed accepting
… Read full post »Lobbyist Money + Right-Wing Extremists = Tea Party
The tea parties that recently took place around the country were billed as a grassroots, bottom-up groundswell against taxes, big government and bailouts. Fox News, apparently promoting itself as the official teabag network, hopes to grab ratings by embracing the pseudo-populist protests as the… Read full post »
Second Chance For Michael Vick and Other Ex-Felons
A Philly Tragedy Reminds Us of America’s Gun Lust
There’s a story out of Philadelphia that’s enough to break your heart.
On April 21, a man shot his girlfriend to death in front of her 11-year old daughter, then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide. Aleen Ali, 45, a supervisor at the city’s Department of Human/
… Read full post »Obama Must Not Boycott World Racism Conference
On April 20, a world conference on racism is taking place, and the Obama administration hasn’t decided if it will attend.
The Durban Review Conference is being held in Geneva, Switzerland, and NGO’s and representatives from around the world will be in attendance. The purpose of th
… Read full post »A Book Review of Wage Theft In America, By Kim Bobo
(The following is a reprint from my Color of Law column in BlackCommentator.com.)
Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is an Israelite or is a foreigner residing in one of your towns. Pay them their wages each day before… Read full post »
The Revolution Will Be Twitterized
Will Obama Save the Mideast from Itself?
With his speech at Cairo University, President Obama has laid the groundwork, potentially, for a new era of peace in the Mideast. Israeli officials are now realizing that they will have to accept a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians. Meanwhile, there is an indication t… Read full post »
Who stopped the presses? Obviously, it is a question that many
are asking these days.
It is a bit sobering to witness the apparent demise of the
newspaper industry. Not unlike dominoes, newspapers around the U.S.
are toppling, closing their doors, filing for bankruptcy, or
ceasing their print… Read full post »
Open Dialogue on Race, Part VIII: Hate and Racial Scapegoats
Ground rules for participating comments in the open dialogue on race:
1. ABSOLUTELY NO PERSONAL ATTACKS
2. NAME-CALLING OR FINGER-POINTING ARE PROHIBITED
3. READ COMMENT(S) THOROUGHLY BEFORE RESPONDING
4. STANDARD OPEN SALON RULES APPLY
5. VIOLATORS WILL BE TOWED
HYPOTHESIS… Read full post »
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