President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Sherrilyn Ifill, International Association of Chiefs of Police’s Terrence Cunningham, Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post and CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues discussed racial policing and the road to healing in the United States on Face the Nation.
During the CBS, long-running news program, Sherrilyn Ifill’s responded to former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s comment in a July 10, 2016 New York Times article on the Black Lives Matter movement:
“He actually presided over one of the most discredited areas and periods of policing in the City of New York,” she said, “which is, in fact, responsible for a lot of the tension that exists between police officers and people in African-American communities.”
AJ Woodson
AJ Woodson is the Editor-In-Chief of Black Westchester and Co-Owner of Urban Soul Media Group, the parent company, Host & Producer of the People Before Politics Radio Show. AJ is a Father, Brother, An Author, Journalism Fellow (Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism), Hip-Hop Artist - one third of the legendary underground rap group JVC FORCE known for the single Strong Island, Radio Personality, Hip-Hop Historian, Documentarian, Activist, Criminal Justice Advocate and Freelance Journalist whose byline has appeared in several print publications and online sites including The Source, Vibe, the Village Voice, Upscale, Sonicnet.com, Launch.com, Rolling Out Newspaper, Daily Challenge Newspaper, Spiritual Minded Magazine, Word Up! Magazine, On The Go Magazine and several others.
