Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations, & war. He has ...
Heather Ann Thompson is the author of Blood In The Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 And Its Legacy.
Richard Rothstein is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Find out more about the New Movement to Redress Racial Segregation here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNIs0hXRs1h2j03pNKvlu7QDpnyeNestA5llKSV1KpOgutFw/viewform
Frankie Roberts is the co-founder of LINC or Leading Into New Communities Inc. LINC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Wilmington, NC. They provide transitional living and case management services to meet the needs ...
The cops and the district attorneys want people to see what we are going through — the conditions of our arrests, our experiences in jail, and our legal battle — and to think that this ...
Protests in Haiti have led to hundreds of deaths yet have drawn little attention in the west, thanks in large part to its strongman leaders’ continued loyalty to the United States. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress ...
The lack of critical coverage of Biden’s new announcement suggests that corporate media will no longer be as concerned about “kids in cages” now their preferred candidate is in the White House. (By: Alan Macleod, ...
There were 104 separate incidents of drivers crashing into protests between May 27, the date of the George Floyd killing, and September 5, including 96 civilians and 8 police vehicles. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) ...
Come November 3, Oregon residents will have a chance to approve the most far-reaching drug reform measure ever to make a state ballot when they vote on Measure 110, the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act. ...
Paul and his wife were confronted while protests heat up across the country. Protesters demanding racial justice confronted Republican Senator Rand Paul and his wife as police escorted them back to his hotel after the ...
The study comes amid unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the latest high-profile police shooting of a Black man and the shooting deaths of two protesters by an alleged far-right militia member. (By: Julia Conley, Common ...
Marijuana is on the ballot in South Dakota in November this year. This is a state that has the dubious distinction of being the only one to twice defeat a medical marijuana initiative. And it ...
“It’s something students are definitely going to want to talk about when they come back to school,” Samantha Garrett told me while schools were closed for the summer in Milwaukee, and the community was grappling with the ...
Unconfirmed reports have linked the shooter to a militia group with videos shared on social media showing him walking by police after the shooting. In the third night of uprising and protest following the police ...
“While we do not have all of the details yet, what we know for certain is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed ...
“Jacob Blake’s 3 SONS were IN THE CAR he was getting into when Kenosha Police shot him tonight. They saw a cop shoot their father. They will be traumatized forever.” Unrest erupted in Kenosha, Wisconsin ...
Documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests show a consistent pattern of abuse at the privately-run ICE facility in Farmville, where detainees suffered abuse, neglect, and threats of retaliation if they complained. (By: Alan Macleod, ...
The unrest and riots in Chicago took place early Monday morning After a heated confrontation with police over a Sunday afternoon officer-involved shooting, an uprising of riots and looting erupted early Monday morning. Chicago police ...
With signature-gathering deadlines for drug reform initiatives now having passed nearly everywhere, the picture of where voters will have a chance to vote on them in November becomes clearer—although not yet finalized because state officials ...
The use of force detailed in the report “is ultimately a symptom of the very issue that started these protests: unaccountable police violence.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) In a report titled “The World is ...
“It was a hellhole long before COVID happened.” Prisoners at Georgia’s Ware State Prison rioted Sunday after reports of high tensions due to coronavirus cases and poor living conditions. Two staff members and three prisoners ...
$1,200 stimulus checks, cuts to unemployment benefits, no eviction moratorium, and a $1.75 billion FBI Building? Yesterday, the GOP announced their latest coronavirus stimulus package proposal, the HEALS Act, a $1 trillion bill in response ...
“If the state of Oregon does not have standing to prevent this unconstitutional conduct by unidentified federal agents running roughshod over her citizens, who does?” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) After a U.S. district judge ...
Trump’s deployment of federal officers to Democratic-run cities is extreme even for him. President Donald Trump’s recent reelection campaign advertisement is straight out of the plot of a horror movie. Just days after he deployed ...
In Minneapolis, an overhaul of police conduct after the killing of George Floyd is inciting controversy among some activists. The Minneapolis City Council voted to disband the city’s police department on June 26, a little more than ...
As national protests call to defund and dismantle police departments, existing alternatives to police offer potential beacons for the way forward. This is a moment of contention and restructuring in America. Mass public outcry is ...
Democrats in Chicago, Kansas City, and Albuquerque have struggled to respond to Trump sending in federal agents. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump offered some details on Operation Legend, a federal law enforcement operation in Chicago, ...
What we are now witnessing is an assault designed to suffocate the hopes and life prospects of human beings desperately seeking safety and a better life. (Common Dreams) It’s hard to know exactly where the ...
Florida’s large population and its status as a swing state means that the prohibition on felons’ voting has national impacts. On July 16 the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling, which will likely prevent ...
Chanting, “Feds stay clear! Moms are here!,” groups of women congregated at the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse and other locations in Central Portland. They were met with tear gas, flashbangs, and pepper round bullets, ...
“They just started whaling on me with batons, and I let them,” said Christopher David. (By: Jon Queally, Common Dreams) The U.S. Navy veteran who was brutally attacked by unidentified federal police in Portland, Oregon ...
“They want to see what they can get away with before launching into other parts of the country.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Video footage and first-hand accounts of unidentified federal law enforcement officials snatching up Black Lives ...
“This is an actual threat to political speech: badegeless, nameless, masked federal officers assaulting, and snatching-up protesters in Portland.” Federal agents in camo gear have been seen on the streets of Portland, Oregon pulling antiracism ...
What can make this moment’s passion positive? What can make this moment’s anger future-seeking? COVID-19, and before Covid everything else, has raised a question that is now percolating, and even reverberating. And then came a ...
Taylor’s death at the hands of police officers on March 13 has prompted protests, but so far no officers have been charged. Demonstrations over Kentucky’s handling of the alleged murder of Breonna Taylor continued Tuesday. ...
Just as we want to radically redefine the role of police in our local communities, so we must radically redefine the role of military personnel in the global community. Since George Floyd was murdered, we ...
“This city will never sleep until we get justice.” Minneapolis has been protesting since May 26th, and although the national spotlight has gone elsewhere, Minneapolis continues to protest against police violence and held a large ...
From the beginning, policing in this country has primarily protected the powerful. Maybe now that can change. (Common Dreams) For decades, we’ve been told that policing is a public good: available to all, for the ...
While community members remembered Elijah McClain with a violin vigil, the police responded with pepper spray and batons. After a full month of nationwide protests in response to a Minneapolis cop killing George Floyd, in ...
“Elijah McClain and his family deserve justice.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Demonstrators in Aurora, Colorado Saturday are calling for justice for Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after being attacked by city ...
It looks like the president’s goal is to make America white. When President Donald Trump first began talking about ending “chain migration” in 2017, media outlets pointed out that his own parents-in-law had likely obtained lawful ...
“After talking with Breonna Taylor’s family, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s long past time to get rid of no-knock warrants. This bill will effectively end no-knock raids in the United States.” In the ...
“Carlos Ingram Lopez should still be alive today.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Video of the police killing of Tucson, Arizona resident Carlos Ingram Lopez in April was released to the public on Wednesday, prompting ...
With mass protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin morphing into demands to grapple with racism and to confront a police culture where brutality is all too common, and ...
American voters now support sweeping changes to policing; 83 percent want a ban on racial profiling, 92 percent want police to be required to wear body cameras and White Americans’ concern over police violence has increased by ...
We are at a reckoning point in history, where we must decide how we will continue as a nation and how we will continue as inhabitants on this planet that supports all of our lives. ...
US racism and police violence are intrinsically linked and date back many years, but the militarization of the US police and its use of deadly violence against suspected petty criminals, or even non criminals, is ...
Society doesn’t need a large group with a license to kill. Recent protests, catalyzed by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, call for an end to racist police violence. With their actions, the protesters ...
Even in cases where the use of excessive force was clear and well documented officers have not faced consequences because of qualified immunity. On Tuesday June 15 the Supreme Court denied a petition by the ...
The number of known cases in the facilities has doubled since mid-May to over 68,000. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) After months of warnings that the coronavirus pandemic has turned U.S. detention facilities into “ticking ...
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