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Racial Justice

#EndSARS: Inside Nigeria鈥檚 Fight to End Police Brutality

Demanding an end to the escalating violence of Nigeria鈥檚 Special Anti-Robbery Squad has mobilized youth across religious and ethnic divides.

Innocent Eteng | Oct 29, 2020
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鈥淪ee You Yesterday鈥 Filmmakers Use Sci-Fi to Discuss Police Brutality

The genre offers a creative opportunity to tell Black stories, using fantasy and adventure to bring awareness to real-world injustice.

Deonna Anderson | Jun 07, 2019
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How U.S. Wars Abroad Are Intimately Tied to Police Brutality at Home

There are obvious links between anti-war movements against U.S. militarism and Black Lives Matter activism against police brutality. Is time for activists to join forces?

Khury Petersen-Smith | Aug 25, 2021
A scene from the People鈥檚 Climate March. Photo by Light Brigading / Flickr.
Environment

The New Grassroots Heroes: They Fight Pollution鈥攁nd Police Brutality鈥擜nd They’re Changing How Social Movements Happen

"The global justice movement, the antiwar movement, the climate movement: We are now part of a much larger, more systemic movement that really sees the interrelationships between all these systems and climate destruction."

Laura Flanders | Nov 15, 2014
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Defunding Police鈥擧ow Antiracist Organizers Got Seattle to Listen

By halting a proposed $150 million police precinct, Seattle activists have made headway in redirecting funding toward services like affordable housing and education.

Melissa Hellmann | Mar 09, 2017
Health & Happiness

Why Police Violence Against Women of Color Stays Hidden

Data show more Black men are killed at higher rates than women, but police-misconduct attorney Andrea Ritchie says that doesn鈥檛 tell the whole story.

Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | Aug 10, 2017
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鈥淚t鈥檚 About Terrorizing Us鈥: Environmental Racism Expert Draws Parallels With Police Brutality

鈥淚f this moment can be sustained through further conversations, I think there can be a breakthrough.鈥

Carol Linnitt | Jun 18, 2020
Democracy

An Afro-Indigenous Perspective on Policing

In his new book, Kyle T. Mays argues that the violence of policing has always been intimately tied to U.S. democracy.

Kyle T. Mays | Feb 08, 2022

What #DefundPolice Can Do For Public Safety

Cities imagine taking away resources from racist, oppressive policing and putting it toward public safety and social services.

Nicole Lewis | Aug 26, 2020
Racial Justice

How the Police Killing of a Black Brazilian Teen Sparked a Movement

The police killing of Jo茫o Pedro Mattos Pinto, a 14-year-old Black Brazilian in Rio de Janeiro, unmasked the scope of police brutality amid a pandemic and led to an unprecedented court decision.

Kiratiana Freelon | Aug 27, 2020
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Anti-Fascism Versus the Police, 1980s-Style

The Richmond Police Department was known for being 鈥渢ough." But a grassroots campaign called 鈥淪top Killer Cops!鈥 exposed an active White supremacist group inside the force.

James Tracy & Hilary Moore | Jun 10, 2020
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Democracy

Why We Need to See Those Videos of Police Brutality

Outrage over videos of violent injustice will help spark deep social change.

Bill Buzenberg | Jul 29, 2016
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We Keep Us Safe: Imagining a Police-Free World

Communities with infrastructure to support the development of whole, healthy people won鈥檛 need police.

Sonali Kolhatkar | May 18, 2023
Criminal justice reform

Why Police Reform Is Not Enough

The focus on reforms like improved training doesn鈥檛 solve racially biased policing. That鈥檚 because of the nature of policing itself.

Alex Vitale | Jun 02, 2020
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November 30 WTO Showdown

There were students, labor union members, greens, farmers, religious leaders, and human rights activists. The most dramatic confrontations took place on November 30 (N30), when thousands of protesters blocked WTO delegates from reaching the meeting.

Paul Hawken | Apr 01, 2000
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