A Chicago journalist turned teacher talks about the struggle to teach young people about their government — and why she's hopeful.

From black sites to Bearcats, sound cannons to stink bombs, drones to data mining, the components of a new police counterinsurgency program are being assembled with remarkable speed.

The emotional distance between Freddie Gray’s moving funeral and the chaos that followed isn’t as wide as it may seem.

Watch video from the Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the state of civil rights in response to the recent killings of unarmed black men by white police officers.

Protests against racist injustice — triggered by the failure of the criminal justice system to indict the killers of Michael Brown and Eric Garner — has propelled Obama to recall his community organizing roots.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: "What clearly cannot be said is that violence—like nonviolence—sometimes works."

A look at some of the analysis since last night's grand jury decision.

Despite all evidence to the contrary, blaming black culture for racial inequality remains politically dominant. And not only on the Right.

All sorts of painful new crowd control weapons could be coming soon to a protest near you.

Let's hope that Michael Brown's death is the one that finally pierces the national conscience with the essential truth that racial violence kills people.