Blue lines, Black lives: Policing at a crossroads
Safer communities or more occupation? That feels like a bad choice. Blue on Black violence or Black on blue violence? That doesn't feel like a choice at all.
Is a Black Lives Matter alliance with the police possible?
These past few weeks have been a devastating time for both the African American community and for law enforcement.
The movement will not be criminalized
Dissent is not the same thing as hate. Let us be unyielding in our commitment to building an abolitionist future.
Are Black men becoming endangered?
Our broken communities cannot continue to live in fear of the police; and their fear of us must also change.
Tipping point: America confronts race and policing
Like most, we are profoundly saddened and grief-stricken by these horrific events; our hearts go out to the families of those killed, civilian and police alike.
Alton Sterling, Black father of five, killed for selling CDs
Alton Sterling, 37, joins the seemingly endless list of Black people slain by cops and mourned by their neighbors, families and friends.
Police accountability report highlights “Chicago’s shame”
We must reform the police. But we also need a program for urban development, jobs, schools, and hope.
Remembering Ferguson and the birth of a movement
They stood up and in a simple act, spoke his name - Mike Brown. Others have stood up since.
Revisiting Baltimore and changing the "racial conversation"
Does "Black lives matter" ask for something from the dominant culture that would require economic loss or will it mean gains and not losses, morally and economically, for most Americans?
Straight outta everywhere: Learning to listen in the "racial conversation"
The white dominant culture is more interested in critiquing the rap music rather than critiquing the conditions to which the music bears witness.
