Dayvon Love (left), director of public policy for the Baltimore-based think tank Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, is calling for full accountability in the police killing of Bilal Abdullah (right), urging the public to utilize existing reform mechanisms while advocating for stronger community control and independent investigations.
Author Archives: Dayvon Love
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Wes Moore’s veto of the Maryland reparations commission bill is counter revolutionary
Dayvon Love is director of public policy for the Baltimore-based think tank, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle. This week he speaks on Gov. Wes Moore’s veto of Maryland’s reparations study bill and what he thinks that says about the limits of mainstream Black political leadership when it is not rooted in militant, transformative struggle.
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Larry Gibson’s opposition to Maryland reparations study bill provides cover for critics
Davyon Love, policy director for the Baltimore-based Black think tank, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, says prominent Baltimore lawyer Larry Gibsons’ criticism of a Maryland bill to study reparations, reflects a mainstream political approach that distances itself from the Black radical tradition. Love contends that his position may give cover to Gov. Wes Moore to veto the bill, undermining efforts to address systemic harm through transformative policy rooted in reparative justice.
Posted inPolitics
The necessity of political warfare
Dayvon Love is director of public policy for the Baltimore-based think tank, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle. This week, he speaks on the political warfare being waged by the current presidential administration.
Posted inOpinion
The politics of harm: How conservative policies disguise their impact on our communities
Dayvon Love is public policy director for the Baltimore-based think tank Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle. This week he discusses how conservative political forces have historically promoted policies that harm Black communities while claiming to act in their best interests. For example, advocates for harsh sentencing often cite protecting victims while ignoring how such policies disproportionately fuel mass incarceration. Such right-wing stances reflect a broader indifference—or even hostility—toward the systemic oppression faced by Black people.