The Assassination of Sandra Bland and the Struggle Against State Repression
Bland’s death drives home the ever present dangers of being black in a culture of normalized anti-blackness.
Flagging Hate Speech
It shouldn’t have taken 150 years and the deaths of nine innocent churchgoers for Southern states to renounce the Confederate flag.
A Crime Against Humanity Sent Me to Harvard
Slavery still shapes our society.
What Caused the Charleston Massacre?
Relentless racism and a powerful anti-gun control lobby make for a deadly combination.
Hell on Earth
Reflections on Charleston, racism, and justice from a progressive person of faith
Re-entering Society — and the Voting Booth
Nearly three dozen states restrict felons from voting even after they’ve served their time.
The Latest Victim in the War on Whistleblowers
Jeffrey Sterling learned the hard way that the feds will throw the book at anyone who embarrasses them.
The 1.5 Million Man March
China has its vanishing girls. North Korea has its disappeared prisoners. And America has a generation of missing, jailed, and dead black men.
Baltimore and the Human Right to Resistance
Violence is structured into the everyday institutional practices of all oppressive societies, not simply an aspect of the resistance of the oppressed.
Guilty of Being Poor
When a community issues arrest warrants for more offenses than it has residents, something’s deeply wrong.
Jim Crow in the Holy Land
Our own progress against racism in the United States remains too recent, too fragile, and too incomplete to go on abetting apartheid in Israel.
The Poor Get Prison: The Alarming Spread of the Criminalization of Poverty
This report provides a new understanding of the growing ways in which those in poverty are disproportionately targeted, marginalized, and prosecuted.
Film: American Denial
An IPS and Community Cinema [DC] preview of a film that uses research footage, newsreels, home movies, and modern short films to expose some of the potential underlying causes that continue to affect implicit racial biases inherent in American institutions.
The Life and Times of Michael B
Ferguson put the U.S.’ racial apartheid on the global stage.