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Memphis police department routinely discriminated against Black people: DOJ

The Memphis Police Department has engaged in a pattern of violating residents' civil rights and discriminating against Black people, according to the Department of...

When compliance isn’t enough: The reality of police violence against Black men

Screenshot of police body cam footage of NFL star Tyreek Hill’s Sept. 8 arrest (Credit: Miami Dade Police Department).   The barrel of that New York...

LGBTQ people have a troubled relationship with police − new survey shows high rates of harassment, abuse and distrust

Participants in the 2023 San Francisco Pride parade show their opposition to law enforcement. Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images by Stefan Vogler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The...

Guest Editorial: Police misconduct and democracy in peril

It has happened again. A Black woman, Sonya Massey, called the police because she thought there was an intruder in her home. According to...

Decades on, Delbert Africa’s surrender still provides powerful image of US racism and Black victimhood

Delbert Africa surrenders to Philadelphia police shortly before they brutally arrest him. Jim Domke/Philadelphia Inquirer by Nicole Maurantonio, University of Richmond Forty-six years ago, on Aug....

From Michael Brown to Sonya Massey, a decade of police anti-Black violence causes grief, worry and coping for Black parents

Demonstrators protest the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014. Joshua Lott/AFP/Getty Images by Seanna Leath, Washington University in St. Louis...

Harris brings joy to the presidential campaign − and GOP mockery of ‘laughing Kamala’ is nothing new to Black women

Vice President Kamala Harris laughs with supporters after speaking in Jacksonville, Fla., about the implementation of Florida’s abortion ban, May 1, 2024. AP Photo/John...

George Floyd: His death moved the world—but the community he died in is standing still

MSR file photo by Al Brown, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder For the last two and a half years, every Monday at 5:30 p.m., a powerful act of remembrance has...

‘I’m not black, I’m O.J.’: What O.J. Simpson’s life showed about transcending race and being trapped by it

by Rodney Coates, Miami University It’s still unclear when – or if – O.J. Simpson actually said the words that rapper Jay-Z attributed to him...

Derek Chauvin is again trying to overturn George Floyd murder conviction

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis Police Officer who fatally knelt on George Floyd, is seeking to have federal conviction overturned. On Monday (November 13), Chauvin...

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