Civil Rights & Social Justice
For Black people, milk has always been bound up with power, race, whose bodies are valued, and whose children are expected to thrive.
When Claudette Colvin left this world on January 13th, with her went a library, a recipe box, and a curriculum we still don't understand how to follow.
Dr. King’s dream was not an invitation to complacency; it was a call to arms of the spirit. A call to organize, to resist, to transform.
Few ever grapple with the true crux of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s work and the clarion call he and others had for jobs and justice.
What Trump and so many of his supporters and conservatives refuse to accept is that Black people can’t be racist, nor can “reverse discrimination” exist in America.
In this op-ed, Stephen A. Crockett Jr. writes that ICE has become a roaming tribunal that decides who gets to stay and who disappears.
Keith Porter Jr. was killed by an off-duty ICE agenton New Year’s Eve at his apartment complex in the Los Angeles area.
Renee Nicole Good wasn’t a rioter, nor a terrorist, and she didn’t run anyone over. She was a mother of three, a poet, and didn’t deserve to die.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis during an apparent protest against the ICE crackdown.
Ohio lawmakers have recently called for inspections at a county jail. This action follows accusations of serving “warden burgers” as punishment. Background on the Controversy In Butler County, Ohio, Sheriff Richard Jones introduced the “warden burger” policy. This meal serves as discipline for inmates in isolation. For example, offenders eat the same burger three times […]
Memphis authorities issued an arrest warrant for Derrick McDonald, who exposed the conditions of the 201 Poplar jail with his cellphone.
PREA is a federal law that mandates safety, dignity, and accountability for incarcerated people, but its enforcement is being quietly rolled back.