Fallout from Stephon Clark Killing Spreads to New York and Beyond
The memories, Hertencia Petersen tells me, resurface when she appears to speak at rallies. Her nephew, Akai Gurley, was…
The Indypendent
black lives matter
Erica Garner, Death by Broken Heart?
Her name rang with similarity. Erica, Erica Garner. One could not say her name without thinking about her fallen…
What the Hell Does it Take to Convict a Cop of Murdering a Civilian in America?
Earlier this month, jurors at the New York State Supreme Court building in Brooklyn considered what, under different circumstances,…
Police Are the Problem, Not the Solution
Review: ‘The End of Policing’ by Alex Vitale; Verso Books, 2017.
Exposing America’s Legacy of Racial Terror
‘The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America’
Brooklyn Museum
Thru Oct. 8
This month’s white supremacist rally and deadly attack in Charlottesville again reminded millions of white Americans that racism did…
Talking to Your Kids About Charlottesville
Many parents are grappling with ways to explain to their children the deadly, racist violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend. Rebecca, a mother of three living in Brooklyn, described the strength of love to her son.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: The Politics of the Oppressed
Ahead of the Women’s March, the author and activist talks about how to take on Trump
Chained to a Desk Over a Parking Ticket
IMANI PERRY, a professor of African American Studies at Princeton University in New Jersey, became the center of national…
Chain Letter: Ta-Nehisi Coates, James Baldwin & Alain Mabanckou
Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates Spiegel & Grau, 2015 Letter to Jimmy By Alain Mabanckou Translated…