national emergency declaration

We need to declare a national emergency on deadly policing

By Kelly Brown Douglas — September 2, 2020
(RNS) — This country’s anti-Black narrative threatens the lives of not only the 13% of this country’s population who are targeted by it; it threatens the survival of the nation itself.

How a national emergency order endangers the ‘other’

By Jonathan Perlman and Eric C Manning — February 20, 2019
(RNS) — The leaders of two congregations that have suffered violence incited by hate, we recognize the president's 'emergency' isn’t about an invasion, but the language of governmental overreach.
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