Will DOJ Intervention Improve Policing in Ferguson? Will DOJ Intervention Improve Policing in Ferguson?
There’s debate over whether federal government involvement will make a difference in Ferguson. Cincinnati, site of a police shooting in 2002, offers clues on how to address r...
Sep 12, 2014 / Blog / Dani McClain
Overturned Death Penalty Conviction Sparks Debate in North Carolina Overturned Death Penalty Conviction Sparks Debate in North Carolina
The release of a wrongfully imprisoned death row inmate has opened up a bipartisan conversation around punitive justice in North Carolina.
Sep 11, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Hundreds of Voters Are Disenfranchised by North Carolina’s New Voting Restrictions Hundreds of Voters Are Disenfranchised by North Carolina’s New Voting Restrictions
More than 450 voters did not have their ballots counted in the state’s May primary as a result of the country’s harshest voting law.
Sep 10, 2014 / Blog / Ari Berman
Black Millennials Are Emerging as the ‘Movement Generation’ Black Millennials Are Emerging as the ‘Movement Generation’
If you’re asking the question “Where is the movement?” you simply haven’t been paying attention.
Aug 28, 2014 / Blog / Mychal Denzel Smith
How Trayvon Martin’s Death Launched a New Generation of Black Activism How Trayvon Martin’s Death Launched a New Generation of Black Activism
A host of new groups are reviving the grassroots fight for racial equality.
Aug 27, 2014 / From the Archive / Mychal Denzel Smith
It’s Time for a 21st-Century Anti-Lynching Movement It’s Time for a 21st-Century Anti-Lynching Movement
Black women have made connections between their struggles and those of black men since the 1800s.
Aug 27, 2014 / Paula J. Giddings
As People of Color, We’re Not All in the Same Boat As People of Color, We’re Not All in the Same Boat
We all have different places in the racial hierarchy. But we can still work together for justice.
Aug 27, 2014 / Rinku Sen
For the Sake of Michael Brown For the Sake of Michael Brown
We believe it is because not nearly enough capable people with resources in this region have heeded our pleas that we have reached this crisis point of complete breakdown. We need ...
Aug 22, 2014 / The St. Louis American Editorial Board
Ferguson and Parallel Universes Ferguson and Parallel Universes
What an encounter with a right-of-center take on events in Ferguson tells us about the need for answers now.
Aug 22, 2014 / Blog / Dani McClain
Police Arrest Two Protesters Demanding a Special Investigator in the Michael Brown Shooting Police Arrest Two Protesters Demanding a Special Investigator in the Michael Brown Shooting
Protesters share many residents’ opinion that St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch harbors a pro-police bias.
Aug 19, 2014 / Blog / Steven Hsieh