Solidarity in New Haven

The recent campus mobilization at Yale is only the latest student effort to organize around and impact the safety of local residents.

James Cersonsky

Let the Punishment Fit the Crime

Johannes Mehserle’s sentence for killing Oscar Grant has been decried as less than Michael Vick was given for killing dogs.

Laura Flanders

Slide Show: Reconstructing the Story of the Storm

The Nation

Frontline on PBS Investigates Post-Katrina Police Shootings

Five years ago next week, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the body of Henry Glover was found burned in a charred sedan overlooking the Mississippi River in New Orleans. The case was mysterious from the start, but it wasn’t until A.C. Thompson’s 2009 article for The Nation that a real investigation began.

Press Room

Frontline on PBS Investigates Post-Katrina Police Shootings

Five years ago next week, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the body of Henry Glover was found burned in a charred sedan overlooking the Mississippi River in New Orleans. The case was mysterious from the start, but it wasn’t until A.C. Thompson’s 2009 article for The Nation that a real investigation began.

Frontline

Wednesday’s Frontline on PBS Investigates Post-Katrina Police Shootings

Press Room

Conversation: A.C. Thompson and Jacques Morial on Post-Katrina Police Violence

In the anarchic days after Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans police department were responsible for much of the deadly violence.

The Nation on Grit TV

Charges in Police Killings Just a Start

If a federal investigation’s good enough for New Orleans, how about Oakland too?

Laura Flanders

Justice at Last?

Justice may finally be imaginable for Edna Glover and her family. The charred remains of her son Henry were discovered in the burnt hulk of a car on a levee overlooking the Mississippi River a week after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. But she’d never gotten any answers. 

Esther Kaplan

MacArthur Park

Advocates pushing for reform and immigrants clamoring for justice in the streets will not forget the recent violence in Los Angeles.

The Editors