News | Racial Justice Fifty Years Since Voting Rights Act Passed, Marchers From Selma to DC Demand Its Restoration Marchers recently ended their nearly 1,000-mile “Journey for Justice” at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. By Candice Bernd , Truthout September 18, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Doing Ferguson and Baltimore at the Intersection of Racial Oppression and Hopelessness While matriculating through these oppressed and hopeless spaces, I was awakened to my privilege. By Jason Michael Williams , UprootingCriminology September 16, 2015 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing New York Prison Guards Accused of Brutally Killing Prisoner, Covering Up Death Four months ago, Samuel Harrell died at New York's Fishkill Correctional Facility. By Nermeen Shaikh & Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! August 20, 2015 Truthout
News | FreeHer: Formerly Incarcerated Women Build a National Network Formerly incarcerated women recently gathered to emphasize that it's time the US ended the mass criminalization of Black and poor women. By Jean Trounstine , Truthout August 11, 2015 Truthout
News Analysis | #BernieSoBlack in the Context of “Confederate Flag Down, Rainbow Flag Up“ The satirical hashtag #BernieSoBlack exposes the problem with equating the same-sex marriage ruling with the symbolic Confederate flag lowering. By Ayo Coly , Truthout July 20, 2015 Truthout
News Analysis | How Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Help Heal Wounds From Racial Injustice Such commissions can help communities heal from a history of racial violence. By Fania Davis , YES!Magazine July 13, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Obama and the Logic of Massacre, From Birmingham to Charleston President Obama cannot escape the message and the environment his administration has created. By Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BlackAgendaReport July 4, 2015 Truthout
Interview | Jews for Racial Justice Move the Conversation About Police Brutality Into White Communities Jews for Racial and Economic Justice organizes in ways that will keep them strong when the media moves on. By Chris Crass & Marjorie Dove Kent , Truthout July 2, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Police Criminals and the Brutalization of Black Girls For black girls in the hallowed idyllic spaces that enshrine the privileges of white youth, summer is always over. By Sikivu Hutchinson , TheFeministWire June 20, 2015 Truthout
Interview | Economy & Labor South Carolina Massacre: Why Don’t We Call Killing of Nine Black Churchgoers an Act of Terrorism? Why are so many politicians and much of the media afraid to call the mass shooting an act of terrorism? We discuss the double standards in coverage of shootings … By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! June 19, 2015 Truthout