University of Virginia Students Protest Violent Arrest
Mar 19, 2015 On Wednesday evening a crowd of students at the University of Virginia rallied to support college junior Martese Johnson, 20, whose bloody arrest early that morning by Alcoholic Beverage Control officers outside a bar near the school's campus sparked outrage and accusations of excessive force and racism.
The Most Dangerous Woman in America
Mar 16, 2015 Kshama Sawant, the socialist on the Seattle City Council, is up for re-election, and the Establishment is determined to defeat her and the ideas she champions before they spread.
In Selma, Memories of Bloody Sunday Spur Action Today
Mar 13, 2015 Fifty years have passed since Bloody Sunday, that seminal event in United States civil-rights history when African-Americans and their allies attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., demanding the right to vote.
From Crispus Attucks to Michael Brown: Race and Revolution
Mar 5, 2015 March 5 marks an important but oft-overlooked anniversary.
DOJ: No Charges for Officer Darren Wilson in Michael Brown Shooting
Mar 5, 2015 Just a day after the news broke that the Justice Department had found evidence of racist practices within the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department, the DOJ released a report claiming that, by its own estimation, Officer Darren Wilson was motivated by personal safety concerns when he shot and killed the unarmed teenager Michael Brown.
In ‘Ghettoside,’ an Indictment of the Criminal Justice System
Mar 4, 2015 In her new book, reporter Jill Leovy tackles a subject usually ignored by progressives, black-on-black murders, and she explains how the U.S. criminal justice system too often treats them as not worth solving. In her new book, Jill Leovy tackles black-on-black murder, explaining how the criminal justice system too often treats it as unimportant.
Department of Justice Finds Signs of Racial Bias in Ferguson Police Force
Mar 4, 2015 The national discussion about race relations and police brutality that intensified last summer with the police killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and others is continuing with the news that a Department of Justice investigation has found evidence of racial bias within the Police Department in Ferguson, Missouri.
‘Cycle’: A Poem to Remind Us of Lives Lost Before the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Feb 18, 2015 Before Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, before Eric Garner was choked to death in New York and before the #BlackLivesMatter movement had even begun, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell and countless other unarmed black men had been slain by police.
Once White in America
Feb 16, 2015 The second and third times I fell in love with black bodies I became a black body, in a way I’d say without shame and some humor, for mine is dark tan called white. But I am the carrier, I am the body who carried them, released on a river of blood.
NYC Mayor de Blasio Doesn’t Want to Make Chokeholds Illegal
Jan 14, 2015 Mayor Bill de Blasio has hit some bumps in recent months in his relationship with the New York City Police Force.
