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The Year in Race, Identity, and Criminal Justice – The Atlantic

December 29, 2016December 30, 2016African American Commuities, African American Economics ...

Selections from The Atlantic’s coverage of 2016, when longstanding tensions over race and identity erupted into conflict.

Getting Held Back in Racial Justice Class

December 9, 2016December 9, 2016Uncategorized

What did the Black Lives Matter movement accomplish? Writer Jeff Chang reflects on a complicated year.

Things Are About to Get Much Worse for Poor Americans

November 10, 2016November 21, 2016African American Commuities, African American Lives ...

They didn’t vote for this. Richer Americans did.

The Counted: People killed by police in the US

November 3, 2016November 21, 2016African American Commuities, African American Lives ...

The Counted is a project by the Guardian – and you – working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015 and 2016, to monitor their demographics and to tell the stories of how they died.

A Digital Archive Documents Two Decades of Torture by Chicago Police

October 28, 2016November 21, 2016African American Lives, African American News ...

Amid continued accusations of police misconduct, the force must contend with a digital rehashing of a sordid chapter in its history.

I’ve been reporting on race for 40 years. Can we ever fix what’s broken?

October 26, 2016November 21, 2016African American Lives, Black Lives Matter ...

“I can’t keep calm. I have a black son!”

She has lost four sons to gun violence. No one has gone to prison. Do these black lives matter?

October 6, 2016November 21, 2016African American Commuities, 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 […]

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