Kevin Cooper was killed by city police at age 14 in 2006, but his death has vanished into obscurity. Now there’s hope for reform to prevent such cases – if it can withstand Trump’s insistence on ‘law and order’.
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Munira Ahmed: the woman who became the face of the Trump resistance – the Guardian
Exclusive: Ahmed tells the Guardian about being illustrated by Shepard Fairey as the banner of a movement: ‘It’s about saying, I am American just as you are’
View MoreOn His Father’s 129th Birthday Marcus Garvey’s Son Seeks Presidential Pardon
Julius Garvey spent Wednesday, his father’s 129th birthday, by taking a note from his social activist handbook.
View MoreWill D.C.’s Housing Ever Be Affordable Again?
Over the next decade, the city’s demographics will change dramatically, and housing policy will largely determine who gets to stay.
View MoreCritics See Efforts by Counties and Towns to Purge Minority Voters From Rolls
When the deputy sheriff’s patrol cruiser pulled up beside him as he walked down Broad Street at sunset last August, Martee Flournoy, a 32-year-old black man, was both confused and rattled. He had reason: In this corner of rural Georgia, African-Americans are arrested at a rate far higher than that of whites.
View MoreA viral Christian blog post about accepting interracial marriage shows how deep racial bias runs
An essay published by a relatively obscure Christian blog was removed from the site Wednesday, but not before it was shared more than 79,000 times and inspired a barrage of scathing tweets and comments.
View MoreBlack Incarceration hasn’t been this low in a generation
Throughout the presidential campaign season, both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have been excoriated for supporting the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which critics charge is fueling mass incarceration of African Americans.
View MoreThe 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.
View MoreAn Interview With Former Black Panther Lynn French
The fact that the Panther Party, by the time you joined in 1968, was over two-thirds women struck me as amazing.
View MoreSouth Africa’s Boldest Women in Music on the Ultimate ‘Girl Power’ Anthems
Women’s Month is officially underway in South Africa. It’s a time to reflect on the phenomenal, kick-ass women in our lives and throughout history.
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