A cluster of Black Lives Matter groups and the organization leading the push for a $15-an-hour wage are joining forces to combine the struggle for racial justice with the fight for economic equality, just as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to do in the last year of his life.
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The ‘We Love You’ Project Embraces Black Men – The Root
Frustrated by the recent deaths of black men at the hands of the police, Washington, D.C.-based photographer Bryon Summers felt the need to do something to change the image of black men.
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True/False Film Fest: Ferguson film ‘Whose Streets?,’ from the people who filled them – Los Angeles Times
Sometimes a subject, an audience and a place converge in just the right way. And a combustible way.
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This Video of Black Parents Explaining How To Handle the Police to Their Kids Will Break Your Heart – Okay Africa
“I’m Ariel Sky Williams. I’m 8 years old. I’m unarmed and I have nothing that will hurt you.”
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Local educators kick off Black Lives Matter week – The Philadelphia Tribune
Some educators in the School District of Philadelphia wore T-shirts and donned pens to support the kick-off Monday of the Black Lives Matter Week of Action.
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The Year in Race, Identity, and Criminal Justice – The Atlantic
Selections from The Atlantic’s coverage of 2016, when longstanding tensions over race and identity erupted into conflict.
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I’ve been reporting on race for 40 years. Can we ever fix what’s broken?
“I can’t keep calm. I have a black son!”
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The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they’ve failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report “The Negro Family” tragically helped create this system, it’s time to reclaim his original intent.
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“There are systemic failures”: Broken-windows policing and racial discrimination in Baltimore and beyond
Salon Talks’ Carrie Sheffield sits down with The Grios’ Natasha Alford and civil rights lawyer Paul Prestia
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The ‘Ground’ in ‘Stand Your Ground’ Means Any Place a White Person Is Nervous
[two_fifth padding=”0 25px 0 10px”]BY Patricia J. Williams | PUB The Nation He looked dangerous. He looked like a suspect. He looked like he was reaching for a weapon. The officer feared for his life.[/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] This familiar litany was recited on the news more than once in this vexed summer—a time weighted […]
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