[Liam Upton]

Protesters after recent killing of black Americans by the police. Picture credit: Debra Sweet and Flickr. Licensed by Creative Commons.

Protesters after recent killing of black Americans by the police. Picture credit: Debra Sweet and Flickr. Licensed by Creative Commons.

The author discusses the recent controversial deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and goes on to discuss the issue of poverty in black America. At the end he proposes a Basic Income as a way to relieve or fix this problem.

Adam Cowden, “Moving Forward After Ferguson and Staten Island”, The Huffington Post UK, 10 December 2014