Guest Commentator

Ron Scott

Ron Scott is a spokesperson for the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality, Inc., a long-time television producer and community activist, and a co-founder of the Detroit Chapter of the Black Panther Party. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Guest Commentary

Never Too Late to End Terror

By Ron Scott Guest Commentator

It is never too late to end terror. That’s what I think about as I look at the news about the conviction of Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen in the murders of civil rights icons/martyrs Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, whose story was told in the movie, “Mississippi Burning.” I cannot help but reflect on…

It is never too late to end terror. That’s what I think about as I look at the news about the conviction of Ku Klux Klansman…

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Think Piece: Incident on a Friday Night in Detroit

By Ron Scott Guest Commentator

Ten years had passed since I’d been the target of ten cops near Beaubien and Monroe Streets in Detroit’s Greektown District. Back then, in 1994, I found myself on the ground beneath one police officer’s shoe and another officer’s knee, guilty merely of standing on the corner and watching the tourists go by as I…

Ten years had passed since I’d been the target of ten cops near Beaubien and Monroe Streets in Detroit’s Greektown District. Back then, in 1994, I…

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