On August 7, 1930 in a small Indiana town called Marion, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were lynched in front of hundreds of White spectators.…
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By now, almost everyone has heard the infuriating details of the murder of Botham Jean. As off-duty police officer Amber Guyger tells it, she mistakenly…
“It works, and it was meant for problems like Chicago: Stop and frisk,” Speaking to an audience of law enforcement leaders in Orlando in early…
On March 18th, Stephon Clark was shot and killed by police in his grandmother’s home. Two officers responding to a vandalism report chased Clark down…
Note: The views in this article are those of the author alone, and do not represent the views of any organization in any official capacity.…
…we cannot have a race-blind approach to the questions: which lives matter? Or, which lives are worth valuing? If we jump too quickly to the…
I grew up in Redmond, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. “Home” to me meant verdant parks. Quiet streets. Quieter nights. The calm darkness of those…