Tag: 2020 Uprisings

David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.

The militarization of gun culture in the United States reflects an increasingly energetic defense of white rule.

More than half of disabled people experience long-term poverty, increasing the chances of violent police encounters.

Derecka Purnell interviews historian Elizabeth Hinton about her new book and how talk of “riots” discredits Black political demands.

In the 1974 cult-classic teleplay Penda’s Fen, the past holds the key to escaping the catastrophic present.

What should “impartiality” mean for jurors in a historically unequal criminal legal system?

A culture of protest takes hold in 1960s LA.

Talk of American freedom has long been connected to the presumed right of whites to dominate everyone else.

A transcript of our panel discussion on the Black Lives Matter movement. 

On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, it is clear that white supremacy sustains the U.S. nuclear arsenal. 

Policing is not the only kind of state violence. In the mid-twentieth century, city governments, backed by federal money, demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.

The McCloskeys are also only a symptom of how racism is served by private property.

In many states, legal regimes sanction the predictable murder of innocent black men. Justice will not be served until the law changes.

Sociologist Alex Vitale explains how the U.S. policing crisis begins with politics—the decision to embrace neoliberal austerity and to turn the social problems it creates over to police.

Success in transforming the criminal justice system will depend on convincing judges to shift how they relate to—and rely upon—police in their criminal courtrooms.

The moment Floyd’s resistance would become lawful is precisely the moment it is too late.

The link between modern policing and the U.S. national security state means they will have to be democratized together.

Reform efforts drain public money that could instead have been invested in caring for communities.

We need not wait for Congress or the Supreme Court. State attorneys general and city law departments can—and should—lead the charge themselves.

Through online fan communities and digital platforms like TikTok, popular music is finding powerful new ways to shape everyday activism, protest, and resistance.

In order to achieve lasting change, we must remedy systemic problems across the criminal justice system—not just among police.

“This sudden attention to the ongoing grief of black life can also feel like a slap in the face. Didn’t you notice we were dying?”

White gay men and trans women of color often have little in common.