Dorothy Johnson-Speight Responses to Violence and Crime Philadelphia, PA Galen Baughman Indefinite Detention Arlington, VA Maya Foa Capital Punishment London, UK Rachel Herzing Policing Oakland, CA Andrea James Incarceration’s Impact…
In Alice Walker’s short story“The Flowers,” a little girl happens upon the decomposing body of a lynching victim while she is out picking flowers. Walker contrasts the light tranquility of the…
By Austin C. McCoy In an undated handout photo, bullet holes are seen in a Chevy Malibu involved in a chase in Cleveland on November 29, 2012. Officer Michael Brelo,…
By: Peniel E. Joseph McKinney, Texas, Police Cpl. Eric Casebolt throws a 14-year-old girl down on the ground during an incident at a pool party June 5, 2015. As of…
The video of the McKinney Texas police officer assaulting and verbally abusing Black children at a pool party is perhaps the perfect frame to discuss how African-American and Latino youth…
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. In a lecture at Harvard during my freshman year, a professor—who may have been Martin Peretz—offered an insight that left a profound impact upon me. “Citizen,”…
By Henry A. Giroux (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)“Let’s hope it isn’t too late to listen, listen intently, carefully, minds open, hearts full. Let’s hope.” – James Baldwin In 1963,…
As a visit to post-uprising Baltimore confirms, high-profile police murders are only part of the problem. (photo: Robert Stolarik/NYT) By Matt Taibbi When Baltimore exploded in protests a few weeks…
By Adam Hudson, Truthout — In April, another unarmed Black person was killed by police. Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African-American male, was arrested by Baltimore police on April 12, given a…
By: Charles D. Ellison Ethiopian Jews demonstrate against police violence and racism in the third of such protests May 4, 2015, in Kiryat Gat, Israel. The previous Sunday, thousands of…
by MARK T. HARRIS The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., famously once said that a riot is the language of the unheard. But riot is partly a misnomer to describe…
by David A. Love DECEMBER 6: People aim cell phones at a speaker in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre as they march on Hollywood Boulevard to protest the decision in…