Tuesday evening, New York state repealed 50-A, a long ignored but deeply powerful police secrecy law that allowed police departments to seal the disciplinary records of their officers. “Repeal 50-A” became one of the many demands made by New York protestors and advocates who have been denouncing longstanding
We’re at an inflection point in American history, with uprisings against racist police violence and the COVID-19 pandemic both laying bare longstanding injustices and inviting us to radically reimagine what society can look like. Now more than ever, there’s a need for news media that accurately reports
What a wild time to be a journalist. Over the last two weeks, cops have attacked journalists nationwide who are covering the national uprising. After undergoing a shoddy editorial process, a fascist op-ed written by right-wing Sen. Tom Cotton threatening to use the military to quell free speech
The Elmahaba Center Podcast was created in 2019 by three Coptic Egyptian women from a working-class neighborhood in Nashville, Tennessee, an area with one of the largest Coptic communities in North America. Coptic people, or “Copts,” are a Christian minority in Egypt, the majority of whom belong to the
Nationwide, uprisings and demonstrations against police violence continue as the Black Lives Matter movement leads the call to defund police departments and reinvest in Black communities. In case you missed it, here are the top stories from Prism’s coverage of the protests and more during the last week. Anoa
As uprisings in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd continue around the world, many businesses, organizations, and ethnic and faith-based groups have used their platform to condemn Floyd’s killing and the widespread police violence in the U.S., call for peaceful demonstrations, and express solidarity
As Minneapolis community organizations grapple with the killing of George Floyd, locals are still grappling with the memory of justice delayed and denied in the murders of Jamar Clark and Philando Castile. As a journalist, it has been a tough week trying to sustain and be well personally while remaining
Asian Americans have experienced different levels of trauma and adversity while navigating the U.S. immigration system, and Southeast Asians in particular have become familiar with being targeted at heightened levels over their immigration status. Southeast Asians—who come from places like the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam,
With the pandemic hitting countries regardless of gross domestic product, COVID-19 is front and center in our lives, and thus, our newsfeeds. Given financial pressures to publish “clickworthy” news, media is behaviorally rewarded for narrowing reality to what the white gaze has been trained to want, further propagating ingrained
On May 1, tenants of 81 Bowery in New York City released a black and white banner from the top of their apartment building that said “Rent Strike!” in both English and Chinese. They joined thousands of tenants across the city and country who are demanding that landlords cancel rent.
Across the U.S., COVID-19 is hitting communities of color the hardest. Here in greater Boston it’s no different. There are high rates of infection in Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, and Hyde Park—the heart of Black Boston. In fact, Black people account for more than 40% of COVID-
It’s a holiday weekend, and that means there’s an entire extra day to catch up on the latest news from Prism. In case you missed it, here are some highlights from our recent coverage of the biggest issues in electoral justice, gender justice, workers’ rights, criminal justice, and
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