The fact that the Panther Party, by the time you joined in 1968, was over two-thirds women struck me as amazing.
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My Mother, the Drug War and Me: Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates and Forgiving my Own Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
For years, I blamed the destruction of our family on her. Coates’ newest Atlantic article opened my eyes—and heart.
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Black Activists Don’t Ignore Crime
IT has become a standard conservative talking point: Black activists focus on police brutality but ignore violent crime in black neighborhoods.
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White Noise in the ‘Conversation’ About Race
[three_fourth padding=”0 0px 0 0px”]White Noise in the ‘Conversation’ About Race 0 5 | A U G U S T | 2 0 1 6 Polling suggests the problem isn’t that we’re not talking about race; it’s that the majority of white Americans aren’t listening. BY Donovan X. Ramsey | PUBLICATION The Nation [dropcap]A[/dropcap] full […]
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Black Lives Matter Releases Policy Agenda
It has been nearly two years since the killing of Michael Brown Jr. by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, touched off outrage and a national movement to save black lives from state violence. Now, just days ahead of the anniversary of Brown’s death, a coalition of organizations that grew from that uprising have launched a policy agenda calling for deep criminal justice and policing reforms.
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Why Highways Have Become the Center of Civil Rights Protest
After activists protesting the death of Philando Castile left the governor’s mansion in St. Paul, Minn., on Saturday night, they marched through the city down Lexington Parkway and then onto the highway, across all eight lanes of traffic. There, some of them sat down, a provocative gesture of civil disobedience in the face of rushing commerce.
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A Tough Choice for Feminist Black Lives Matter Activists
Protesting a police killing and marching in support of a man convicted of rape can pose a real dilemma when one in five women nationwide has suffered a sexual assault.
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The most powerful art from the #BlackLivesMatter movement, three years in
Three years ago today, the #BlackLivesMatter movement was born. It was born after Trayvon Martin. It grew after Michael Brown and Eric Garner. It sprung from decades of injustice and disregard.
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The Coming War on ‘Black Nationalists’
A caricature of black radicalism is becoming the pretext for aggressive policing of racial-justice activism. We’ve been here before.
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