Tag: race
Oklahoma Reservation Ruling Is an Opening for Harm Reduction
Hardline Oklahoma prosecutors have received bad news about their capacity to force people who ...
Movement for Black Lives Wants Congress to End the Drug War
The federal war on drug users would likely be brought to its knees with ...
St. Louis Is a Big Step Closer to Closing the Workhouse
In St. Louis, Missouri—arguably the birthplace of the modern movement for Black lives—a city ...
Despite Voting Rights Reform, Many People With Felonies Excluded From NJ Primary
New Jersey held primary elections on July 7, including hotly contested Congressional races for ...
Scrutinizing the Foster System’s Relationship With the War on Drugs
So many aspects of the racist War on Drugs—stop-and-frisk, mandatory minimum sentencing for crack ...
Canada Has Its Own Racist Structures to Dismantle
The focus of the world’s media can make it seem like racism and the ...
How We Can All Take Responsibility to Avoid Calling the Police
Calls to defund the police are picking up national momentum from Los Angeles to ...
My Experience of Brutal Arrest at a Black Lives Matter Protest
It happened almost by accident. I was walking past Union Square after dinner with ...
Silicon Valley Prosecutor’s Dog-Whistle Threat to Muslim Public Defender
Sajid A. Khan is a community leader and public defender in Santa Clara ...
Abolitionist Scientists Challenge Crime Prediction Software Research
One thousand scientists have denounced new software designed to predict criminality based off of ...
