Race

Study: Body cam footage negatively influences viewers’ perceptions of police violence victims

Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal granted the right of appeal by Philadelphia judge

U.S. District Judge rules against addition of “citizenship” question on U.S. census

Black excellence?: How a school abused Black students & got fame for sending them to Ivy Leagues

#Data4BlackLives conference highlights how technology and race interact

Jameek Lowery went to cops for help, warned they’d kill him on FB live, then died in their custody

2nd Black gay man has died in the home of prominent liberal donor and white gay “ally” Ed Buck

Networks decide to air Trump begging for border wall money, immediately forced to fact check lies

5 Israeli teenagers arrested for the fatal stoning of a Palestinian woman ahead of elections

What do we do with abusers like R. Kelly if we abolish prisons?

Police still can’t find 7 y/o Jazmine Barnes’ killer as an older shooting gains suspicion

Exposing children to examples of protest plants the seeds for them to fight for justice

Black Miami student says she was accused of cheating after improving SAT scores, hires lawyer

Reconciling ‘glorious healing’ & the ‘loving refusal’ of intracommunal violence in an era of disposability

Britain’s non-white workers earn £3.2bn less than their white peers every year for same work

Why do so many others want to claim Blackness if it means oppression?

ICE dumps 200 migrants at El Paso bus station, leaving them in the cold with no money or shelter

ICE facility maintained by GEO Group is blocking access to lawyers for detained immigrants

Betsy DeVos to roll back school racial discrimination rules enacted by the Obama administration

How liberal discourse that distances migrants from “criminals” obscures the crimes of this anti-Black state

7-year-old dies in Border Patrol custody after being separated from family that now disputes agency’s account

Detroit pastor charged with murder of Black trans activist Kelly Stough

U.S. incidence rates of uterine cancer on the rise, with the heaviest toll on Black women

A Black woman-led Philly non-profit hopes to revolutionize how we teach sex ed to girls

Israel claimed that a Palestinian was killed in ‘clashes,’ but video evidence shows Israeli police shooting him in the back

Dollar stores replace grocery stores in low-income Black communities at alarming rates, one town is fighting the surge

Violent protests against wealth inequality in France continue, but many capitalize on economic anxiety for nationalist ends

Police charge anti-fascist protesters who were stabbed at white nationalist rally but protect the neo-Nazis

American citizen sues ICE following three week attempt to deport him to Jamaica

Private autopsy shows cops shot Emantic Bradford Jr., man mistaken for Black Friday mall shooter, 3 times in the back

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