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Resisting the Pro-Police Backlash After Dallas
Black Lives Matter is under attack after the killing of five police officers in Dallas, but that isn't stopping demonstrators from taking to the streets.
Historian: “You Can’t Disconnect History of the 2nd Amendment From the History of White Supremacy”
President Obama is speaking in Dallas, Texas, today at a memorial service for the five Dallas police officers.
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Following Horrific Violence, Something More Is Required of Us
We need a profound shift in our collective consciousness in order to challenge an entrenched system of racial and social control — and build a new US.
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What the NRA Doesn’t Want You to Know
It's been illegal for more than 20 years for the CDC to conduct any research on gun violence.
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State Terrorism and Racist Violence in the Age of Disposability: Expanded Version
The issue is not simply police misconduct and brutality, but the growing use of systemic terror.
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Of Lethal Drones and Police Shootings
It makes no one safer to make our cities and the world a battlefield.
Marc Lamont Hill: Dallas Shootings Can’t Deter Us From Continuing Movement Against State Violence
Protests against police brutality and state violence have swept the country, in the wake of the fatal police shootings Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.
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Why Alton Sterling and Philando Castile Are Dead
We have too much law enforcement, too deeply enmeshed in our lives, and that fact is making us less, not more safe.
Alton Sterling, Father of Five, Murdered by Police Two Months After “Blue Lives Matter” Bill Signed
Hundreds gathered for a vigil last night in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to honor father of five Alton Sterling.
“You Shot Four Bullets Into Him, Sir”: Girlfriend Livestreams Philando Castile’s Death by Police
In St. Paul, Minnesota, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the governor's mansion to protest the fatal police shooting of African-American man Philando Castile.