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What Comes Next for Portland鈥檚 Protests?
After more than 100 days of continual demonstrations, protesters in Portland are looking to the future鈥攁nd each other鈥攆or ways to sustain their movement for Black lives.
Isabella Garcia | Dec 09, 2020
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Reimagining a Better World After George Floyd鈥檚 Death
This special audio report from 猫咪社区! and Public News Service explores the ways communities affected by police violence are organizing to keep each other safe, in Minneapolis and beyond.
Anoa Changa & Laura Rosbrow-Telem | May 24, 2021
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So You Want to Document a Protest? Here鈥檚 What to Consider First
Seasoned community journalists have some words of wisdom before you decide to livestream your next protest.
Kit O'Connell | Nov 04, 2020
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Police Violence Is Not Inevitable: Four Ways a California Police Chief Connected Cops With Communities
鈥淎 critical look at any institution with as much power and authority invested in it as the police is probably a good thing.鈥�
Steve Early | Nov 29, 2014
Health & Happiness
Restorative Justice at Work: How This Indigenous Wood Carver Is Finding Peace After a Seattle Officer Killed His Brother
Rick Williams asked for calm when protesters demanded justice for his brother, who was shot and killed by a Seattle police officer. But he realizes that "the only way you can help change the system is show them you are a human being."
Kayla Schultz | Dec 27, 2014
Democracy
We Already Know How to Reduce Police Racism and Violence
Recent research has shown cities what works. For starters, hire more female police officers.
Kate Stringer | Jul 08, 2016
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How Portland Protesters Keep Each Other Safe
鈥淧rotesting ultimately isn鈥檛 safe and we鈥檙e not trying to say that it is,鈥� says one Portland street medic. 鈥淏ut that doesn鈥檛 mean we can鈥檛 take care of each other.鈥�
Isabella Garcia | Dec 09, 2020
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Hip-Hop Continues a Protest Tradition That Dates Back to the Blues
Hip-hop artists have protested police violence in their music for decades, just like Southern blues and jazz artists did in the late 1800s.
Tyina Steptoe | Aug 07, 2020
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As Black Immigrants, This Movement for Equality Is Ours, Too
A lot of Black immigrants like me have come to see that for our children to live the better lives we envisioned in this country, we need to be all-in against racism鈥攏o matter where or whom it strikes.
Macollvie J. Neel | Jul 14, 2020
Racial Justice
Are Police Unions Part of the U.S. Labor Movement?
Historically, police have used their legal authority to protect businesses and private property over the working class.
Paul F. Clark | Aug 31, 2020
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How Black History Paves the Way for a Just Black Future
Alicia Garza is searching for Black-led solutions to some of the biggest problems of our democracy鈥攕olutions that go far beyond a hashtag.
Sonali Kolhatkar | Feb 01, 2023
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Rochester Police Killed an Unarmed Black Man Having a Mental Health Crisis
鈥淚 placed the phone call for my brother to get help, not for my brother to get lynched," says Joseph Prude.
N. Jamiyla Chisholm | Sep 10, 2020
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How This Database Is Tracking and Exposing Officers鈥� Bigoted Facebook Posts
It鈥檚 found more than 5,000 racist, sexist, and Islamophobic Facebook posts and comments by law enforcement.
Lornet Turnbull | Jun 26, 2019
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Inside Portland鈥檚 Autonomous Protest Movement
Portland, Oregon鈥檚 five months of ongoing protests in support of Black lives are sustained by a vast, multifaceted, and ever-evolving network of activists, organizers, and mutual aid.
Isabella Garcia | Dec 09, 2020
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Cities Reimagine Public Safety Amid Calls to #DefundPolice
Lawmakers across the country are proposing policy measures to cut or loosen ties to traditional policing.