What did the Black Lives Matter movement accomplish? Writer Jeff Chang reflects on a complicated year.
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Things Are About to Get Much Worse for Poor Americans
They didn’t vote for this. Richer Americans did.
View MoreA Digital Archive Documents Two Decades of Torture by Chicago Police
Amid continued accusations of police misconduct, the force must contend with a digital rehashing of a sordid chapter in its history.
View MoreI’ve been reporting on race for 40 years. Can we ever fix what’s broken?
“I can’t keep calm. I have a black son!”
View MoreShe has lost four sons to gun violence. No one has gone to prison. Do these black lives matter?
BY Petula Dvorak PUB The Washington Post [perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”16″]The fourth time around, it doesn’t get any easier to bury a son lost to gun violence.[/perfectpullquote]Phyllis Gray is 53 and tired. Tired of the calls, tired of the funerals, tired of T-shirts with the faces of four dead sons. Tired of no […]
View MoreBlack Lives Matter – Except Biram Dah Ould Abeid’s
Deafening silence greets Mauritanian anti-slavery activist’s three-year prison sentence.
View More“There are systemic failures”: Broken-windows policing and racial discrimination in Baltimore and beyond
Salon Talks’ Carrie Sheffield sits down with The Grios’ Natasha Alford and civil rights lawyer Paul Prestia
View MoreBlack 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.
View MoreWhite 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 […]
View MoreAhead of the 2016 Summer Olympics—Black Lives Matter Activists March in Solidarity with Brazil
It’s becoming quite apparent that black lives are being snuffed out by police globally (see Canada and France).
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