Racial Justice

“The black community tends be overpoliced and underprotected,” says professor john a. powell.

Our biggest problems are political, not organizational.

It doesn't matter that there is an African American president of the United States or that Blacks run Fortune 500 companies or are pace setters as high paid entertainers …

This is a teachable moment for the nation that presents an opportunity to transform policing so it serves the people.

I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little third-graders in a space of fifteen minutes.

Will you stand with the people of Ferguson, by directing your pain and outrage at the real enemies?

Police presence in Ferguson has been described as creating a near war-zone-like atmosphere.

In this interview, Nell Bernstein, author of “Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison,” takes on the question: Why are we locking up children at all?

The narrative of the US remains a redacted myth, names and lives blacked out.

There is a phrase used again and again when people bring up something uncomfortable about the environmental movement. We are told that we are being “divisive.”