police brutality

How China’s Uyghurs Are Marginalized and Subjugated by the State

Gulchehra Hoja Recounts Her Harrowing Experience at the Hands of Xinjiang Police

 
By Gulchehra Hoja  February 23, 2023
On Racism

Colin Kaepernick on the Link Between Abolition and Black Liberation

By Colin Kaepernick  October 7, 2021
Black Lives Matter

How the Killing of George Floyd Reflects America’s Repeated History of Racism and Police Brutality

By Curtis Bunn  October 5, 2021
Civil Rights

How White Violence Turned a Peaceful Civil Rights Demonstration Into Mayhem

By Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly  September 7, 2021
Fiction/Non/Fiction

Whit, Sugi, and Special Guest Jabari Asim Reflect on the Podcast’s Indelible Interviews and Controversies from the Past Four Years

By Fiction Non Fiction  July 15, 2021
Black Activism

What Is the Future of Black Activist Social Movements in America?

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor  June 16, 2021
Protest

Rinaldo Walcott on Riots, Policing, and Traditions of Black Refusal

By Rinaldo Walcott  May 25, 2021
The Maris Review

Brandon Hobson on Getting to the Truth Through Surreality

By The Maris Review  February 11, 2021
Keen On

What Should Joe Biden Do About Policing?

By Keen On  February 8, 2021
On Race

On Navigating the Intricacies of Race and the Violence of Antiblackness in America

By Nadia Owusu  January 12, 2021
First Draft

Kwame Alexander on Learning, from a Young Age, to ‘Use His Words’

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 28, 2020
The Hub

The kids are all right: These teenagers are writing children’s books about racial justice.

By Walker Caplan  November 30, 2020
New Books Network

How Have the Black Lives Matter Protests Changed America?

By New Books Network  September 24, 2020
On Racism

The Death That Galvanized Malcolm X Against Police Brutality

By Peniel E. Joseph  June 23, 2020
On Race

The American Tradition of Anti-Black Vigilantism

By Darryl Pinckney  November 18, 2019
Prison

The Impassable Divides of the Prison Visiting Room

By John Edgar Wideman  October 28, 2019
Art History

On Eric Garner, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Police Brutality as American Tradition

By J. Faith Almiron  September 13, 2019
Economics

From Wall Street to Chicago’s South Side: When Global Economics Make Local Progress Nearly Impossible

By Nicholas Lemann  September 11, 2019
Technology

What Will Social Networks Look Like After the Internet?

By Rochelle Spencer  February 13, 2019
Excerpts

An Account of the Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard by the Police Officer, Lynwood Shull

By Richard Gergel  January 22, 2019
Biography

Hell Week: On Inner City Football in the Wake of Ferguson

By Albert Samaha  September 17, 2018
Excerpts

The Case for Impeaching Donald Trump (Part 6)

By Ron Fein, John Bonifaz, and Ben Clements   August 22, 2018
Feature

Facing US By Amanda Johnston

By Amanda Johnston  March 19, 2018
Poets

Which Lives Matter

By Caroline Williams  March 1, 2018
Poets

Don’t Die, I Say: 3 Poems on Gun Violence and Police Brutality

By Literary Hub  December 14, 2017
Excerpts

Audre Lorde: We Must Learn to Use Our Power

By Audre Lorde  September 11, 2017
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