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 ...
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 ...
Juneteenth took extra precedence this year amidst ongoing protest about inequality faced by African Americans today. The holiday, which celebrates the emancipation of all slaves after the Civil War, inspired a slew of musical artists ...
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 ...
Many social, political and economic factors contributed to form the perfect storm that is currently raging across America as police attack peaceful protesters with violent force in the midst of the worst pandemic in recent ...
The tragic death of George Floyd has sparked controversial protests. Many celebrities are helping out by raising money for the Minnesota Freedom Fund, an organization that provides funds to protestors who have been arrested and ...
Americans are struggling. Around the globe, better responses to COVID-19 offer lessons to the U.S. In the United States, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has centered on bailouts of mega-corporations and big banks. Citizens ...
The bill contains stricter rules for the use of lethal force and stronger legal accountability for law enforcement, but critics argue that the measures don’t go far enough. Representatives and Senators are in the process ...
CNN partnered with “Sesame Street” for a special town hall about racism, giving both kids and parents an opportunity to explore the current debate on inequality and how it affects everyone in society. This is ...
Some activists have called upon lawmakers to defund the police, but the bill stops short of removing money or adding any for reforming departments, a Senate Democratic aide told NBC News. Democratic lawmakers returned to ...
“It’s happening much sooner in the cycle than you normally see it.” Organizations dedicated to spurring more voter registrations are reporting an uptick due to the George Floyd protests, CNBC reported. Before the protests, advocacy ...
As protests erupted across the country after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, a dozen progressive Democratic House members filed a resolution May 29 condemning police brutality not only in the case ...
The long list of names killed due to police violence is growing. David McAtee, Sean Monterrosa, Jamel Floyd. These are just some of the names of the people killed by law enforcement as anti-racist protests ...
“I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled,” former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis wrote for The Atlantic. Thus began the retired Marine general’s sharply critical take on President Donald Trump’s response to ...
“The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in ...
Society in the United States has been broken by the mechanisms of high rates of economic inequality, high rates of poverty, impossible entry into robust educational systems, and remarkable warlike conditions put in place to ...
Importantly, participants in ‘Blackout Tuesday’ should not use the #blacklivesmatter or #blm hashtag because their posts will drown out valuable information. The music industry is announcing a “Blackout Tuesday” in response to the death of ...
“What we found is consistent with what people saw. There is no other health issue that could cause or contribute to the death.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) The family of George Floyd, whose killing ...
While some in media have condemned the protests as violent “looters” imposing “tyranny” upon the country, much of the violence is being deliberately instigated and propagated by an out of control police force that appears to ...
A mountain of studies on wealth inequality have shown its corrosive effect on social cohesion, with the more unequal a society gets, the less likely people are to see themselves as participants in a community ...
We need the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to be better than Trump. But we also need him to be better than himself. Dear Mr. Vice President Joe Biden, You showed up in public on Memorial ...
“I thank God people are in the streets,” said the Harvard philosopher and activist. “Can you imagine this kind of lynching taking place and people are indifferent? People don’t care? People are callous?” (By: Jon ...
Twitter put a warning on the tweet for glorifying violence, while the fight for justice continues on the streets of Minneapolis and across the United States In the wake of a cop murdering George Floyd, ...
While serving as Minnesota’s chief prosecutor between 1999 and 2007, Klobuchar declined to bring charges against more than two dozen officers who had killed citizens while on duty – including against the cop that killed George ...
“What is happening tonight in our city is shameful,” Rep. Ilhan Omar said of police behavior. (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Minneapolis police officers dressed in riot gear fired rubber bullets, tear gas, and stun ...
“The police killed him, bro, right in front of everybody. He was crying, telling them like, ‘I can’t breathe,’ and everything. They did not care.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Video footage posted to social ...
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