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#police violence
  • 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.
  • Activism
    A Short History of Black Women and Police Violence
    June 18, 2020
    | Keisha N. Blain
    Despite, or perhaps because of, their own vulnerability to state-sanctioned violence, Black women have been key voices in the struggle to end it.
  • Society
    Before They Were Hashtags
    July 15, 2016
    | Darrah Hall
    We need to celebrate people’s worth when it truly matters the most — during their lives.
  • Inequality
    I Don’t Know Much But I Know Why Black Lives Matter
    July 14, 2016
    | Michael Winship
    Being black in America is something that even the best-intentioned white person cannot understand. Amends must be made.
  • It Took Me Years to Believe That Black Lives Matter. Now Here’s What I Need From You.
    October 22, 2015
    | Marcus Harrison Green
    Internalized racism prevented one young black man from seeing how the system works.
  • Society
    As Politicians Discuss the Threat of Jihadist Plots, the Real Danger Is Right in Our Backyard
    June 22, 2015
    | Tom Engelhardt
    There were over 30,000 deaths by firearm in the United States in 2013 alone.
  • Justice
    Dispatch From Baltimore
    April 29, 2015
    | Stacia L. Brown
    The emotional distance between Freddie Gray’s moving funeral and the chaos that followed isn’t as wide as it may seem.
  • What Obama Leaves Unsaid About Black Deaths at the Hands of Police
    December 3, 2014
    Ta-Nehisi Coates: "What clearly cannot be said is that violence—like nonviolence—sometimes works."
  • Civil Liberties
    Criminalizing Dissent and Harvesting Votes in California's Central Valley
    February 27, 2004 | NOW
    In an increasingly security-conscious America, is the government taking aim at our civil liberties? And unlikely allies in the fight to protect a California community.


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