Daily Archives: November 14, 2016

You say / she killed him. / Not because / he’d put his hands up / or because / he’d turned / and walked away / or because / his car broke down. / She killed him / after / we’d trained her / in lethal violence / after / we’d given her / a gun and a badge / both loaded / with expectation / after / we’d trained her / to see him / not / as a stranded motorist / but / as a Black man / aka a threat.

Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., LLC, one of the nation’s top-ranked investment bond firms and the largest African-American, Latino and woman-owned investment bank, announced its newest equity partner, Gary Hall, who serves as the firm’s head of investment banking. Mr. Hall, based in the firm’s West Coast headquarters in Oakland, becomes the sixth equity partner.

In a Friday interview with The Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump repeated his campaign criticism of U.S. wars in the Middle East and said that he would focus on defeating the Islamic State in Syria and finding common ground with the Syrians and their Russian backers. Both the politics and the material interests of Trump’s top national security advisor, James Woolsey, however, seem counter to Trump’s anti-interventionist stance regarding Syria.