Police Violence

Recognizing black women who suffer the trauma of police violence as victims of this violence factors gender into our analyses in important ways.

Trump's ideology of fear and violence must be countered with a collective movement for real justice and democracy.

The Blue Lives Matter Act and its sister laws are contrary to statistical evidence.

The Murphy Bill uses people with mental illnesses as scapegoats for gun violence while threatening civil liberties.

Polarized media representations of police brutality undermines honest conversation about systemic bias.

Rev. Dr. Jawanza Karriem Colvin, the pastor of the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, speaks about city officials and activists responded to the killing.

Protesters erected a “wall” with banners outside the RNC, and kept systemic police violence in the spotlight even as a sea of police flooded the streets around them.

Cultural critic Henry Giroux explains how violence seeped from the United States' background into the foreground of our psychology.

I, like other authors in this book, take the position that the existence of the police force in this country is unnecessary.

Not even the best-intentioned white person cannot understand being Black in the US.