Across the US, there is growing understanding that many local jails are grossly outdated and feature appalling conditions. This when…
On the streets of Newark, New Jersey, a fledgling group of community activists has come together to protect fellow residents…
On November 9, Representative Barbara Lee (D) of California's 13th Congressional district ("the wokest district in the nation!" as she…
Even for the Trump era, it sounds like an extraordinary lapse in political decorum. At a University of Pittsburgh event…
Gwendolyn Carr, the mother of Eric Garner—who was killed by NYPD police officer Daniel Pantaleo with a chokehold while being…
Timothy Walker, 52, enjoys cooking and used to own a food truck in Philadelphia that sold sandwiches, hot dogs, and…
Any wrongful conviction is a human tragedy," tweeted Sister Helen Prejan, a renowned author and anti-execution advocate, on October 2:…
There's a pill that can prevent new HIV infections—but, among queer men, it still mostly remains in the prescription bottles…
Over the past two years, three Black gay men have overdosed (or overamped) on methamphetamine in the Los Angeles apartment…
The United States has not always been committed to upholding opium prohibition in Afghanistan. Instead, its approach for the past…