In the final weeks of the school year, what is often a celebratory time for the City University of New York’s (CUNY) 275,000 students looked far from familiar. “It’s a tense climate,” one faculty member at Brooklyn College who asked to remain anonymous warned about the sharp
A coalition of racial justice advocacy groups in St. Louis has quietly issued the first in a series of “Prosecutor Watch” reports on the role and powers of the prosecutor and its function in the local criminal legal system. Prosecutors, the coalition contends, have staggering authority to enact violence on
Civilian oversight boards act as third-party oversight agencies for police departments
Activists hope to spread awareness about the relationship between Cop City and the GILEE program
From funding to implementation to use, non-carceral emergency response initiatives require people to unlearn their reliance on police
Migrants are sexually assaulted at alarming rates across the U.S.
The Chicago City Council approved a reparations package in 2015 for police torture victims, and after public pressure a memorial will finally be built
Mothers in Chicago are partnering with the UN to pressure Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx to pardon all survivors of police torture and wrongful convictions
The Stop Cop City movement recalls Atlanta’s 1996 Olympic bid and the city’s history of wealth and white communities over Black and working-class people
As advocates demand that news media reckon with how they have furthered anti-Black violence, entertainment media can’t ignore its guilt in doing the same
Abolishing the police requires recognizing police killings as a fascistic tool and breaking cycles of fear and complacency
San Francisco Pride organizers gave police the green light to march in the parade despite community pushback
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