News | Black Labor Organizers Urge AFL-CIO to Reexamine Its Ties to the Police United Auto Workers members have led a push for the AFL-CIO to dissolve its relationship with an international police union. By Sarah Jaffe , Truthout August 13, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | A Civil Society Arose in Watts Before and After the Unrest The Watts rebellion grew not from chaos but from a mobilized community seeking change. Six days of violence could not destroy the community. By Robin D. G. Kelley , LosAngelesTimes August 13, 2015 Truthout
Excerpt | Mumia Abu-Jamal on the Meaning of Ferguson Ferguson is a wake-up call to build social, radical, revolutionary movements for change. By Mumia Abu-Jamal , CityLightsBooks August 13, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | More Prosecutors Won’t Prevent Police Killings Before They Happen For African Americans, whose daily lives are impacted by police abuse of authority, the crisis is the state as purveyor of racist violence. By Heidi Boghosian , TheIndypendent August 11, 2015 Truthout
Interview | Human Rights Artists at the Venice Biennale Respond to the Black Lives Matter Movement We look at the state of the Black Lives Matter movement and the art world. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! August 11, 2015 Truthout
Interview | Human Rights Political Art and “All the World’s Futures”: First African Curator of Venice Biennale Okwui Enwezor of Nigeria is the Biennale's first African-born chief curator. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! August 11, 2015 Truthout
News | Racial Justice Texas Town Retains Confederate Monument Despite Civil Rights Activist’s 16 Years of Protest A Texas man's more than decade-long battle to relocate a Confederate monument has reignited amid a national debate scrutinizing symbols of the Confederacy. By Candice Bernd , Truthout August 9, 2015 Truthout
Interview | Opal Tometi on Building a Transnational Movement for Black Lives Black Lives Matter cofounder Opal Tometi discusses building connections between movements, in the US and internationally. By Laura Flanders , Truthout August 5, 2015 Truthout
News Analysis | Education & Youth US Education Reform and the Maintenance of White Supremacy Through Structural Violence Scholars and education activists document the racism and segregation of US public schooling over the rise of corporate education reform. By Deborah Keisch & Tim Scott , LandscapesofViolence August 2, 2015 Truthout