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  • Letters From an American
    "Extreme Indifference to the Value of Human Life"
    September 25, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    The verdict on the Breonna Taylor trial comes in.
  • Inequality
    Remembering the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
    June 18, 2020

    When Donald Trump planned a campaign rally for June 19th in Tulsa, Oklahoma it was a double insult to African Americans. There are many events in American history that most white adults have would not be able to identify, much less appreciate their significance. Red Summer of 1919, the Rosewood Massacre, the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. Tulsa is one among too many.

  • Letters From an American
    Can the Police Be Reformed?
    June 17, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Civil Service game playing, VOA takeover, Bolton's big book
  • Letters From an American
    One Man's Protestor is the President's Agent Provocateur
    June 9, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    The day started with Trump tweeting that the 75-year-old Buffalo, New York, man shoved to the ground by police and left bleeding and unconscious “could be an ANTIFA provocateur” who might have been part of a “set up.”

  • Media
    Dig Deep: Locally Grown Investigations
    April 19, 2017
    | Gail Ablow
    This week's installment in our series in which we regularly point you to some of the best investigative reporting you might otherwise miss.
  • Justice
    How Ferguson Uses Cops and the Courts to Prey on Its Residents
    March 5, 2015
    | Zoë Carpenter
    The DoJ's new report traces the pattern of racial bias from traffic stops to arrests to the courtroom and, finally, to a cycle of incarceration and indebtedness.
  • Organizer in Chief?
    December 12, 2014
    | Peter Dreier
    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.
  • Why It’s Almost Impossible to Indict a Cop
    November 25, 2014
    | Chase Madar
    It’s not just Ferguson — here’s how the system protects police.
  • Justice
    Video: Molly Crabapple Illustrates How Mike Brown's Death Shed Light on Police Brutality
    November 18, 2014
    | Charina Nadura
    The artist/activist illustrates the story of Brown's death and the activism that it inspired.
  • The Humanity of Michael Brown
    August 27, 2014
    | Ian Haney López
    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.


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