Who Will Help Texas

As Texans face freezing temperatures, blackouts and water shortages, the most vulnerable populations remain overlooked, and mutual aids groups step in where the government won't.

How Grand Juries Cover Up Police Violence

The Grand Jury in the Breonna Taylor case was meant to deflect political blame away from Attorney General Cameron, not seek justice.

Prosecuting Looters, Pardoning Criminals

If activists have lost the trust of the city based on these incidents of looting, it is clear police should have lost that trust long ago.

Healing Communities Through Mental Health

Greater investment in mental health resources have shown to help reduce gun violence and crime. So why are communities most affected by violence deprived of mental health resources?

Teaching Over Policing

In this first part of this series, discussing alternatives to policing, we show how removing police from schools can open doors for new approaches and actual investment in Black education.

Police Violence and Gun Violence are Related

Police are not the solution to gun violence in Chicago, but part of the problem.

How Local Politics are Shaping Police Reform

Even as the national debate about police violence rages, local officials dictate the most meaningful steps to reforming police.

Juneteenth: The Last Slave States

How mass incarceration continues the legacy of slavery and steals political power.

A Spoiled Batch

Waves of police violence seen and filmed in response to protests are the rule, not the exception.

The Invisibility of Black Death

This has been a tragic and difficult week. From the morbid milestone of over 100,000 deaths in America due to Covid-19, to the footage of another brutal police murder of a black man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis, we are being called to mourn in all-too familiar and unprecedented ways. Between the murder of George Floyd,…