Oklahoma Supreme Court Dismisses Lawsuit From Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors
The survivors had sought financial reparations from the city for its failure to protect Black residents. Chris Walker June 13, 2024 Read the full article here Truthout
Category: Racial Justice
“That is not justice”: Missouri sets execution date for a man who even prosecutors say is innocent
Republican Gov. Mike Parsons has refused to grant Marcellus Williams a pardon, despite exonerating DNA evidence. Nandinka Chatterjee June 11, 2024 Read the full article here Salon
What to know about Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier’s first hearing in more than a decade
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, has a parole hearing Monday at a...
All-White Virginia School Board Tried to Be Slick, Bringing Back Proslavery Names to Piss Black Folks Off
After changing the Confederate names of two schools in the wake of Black Lives Matter, the school board has had a change of heart, and Black people are mad. Emell Adolphus May 10, 2024...
The Campaign Against D.E.I.
For critics of the former Harvard president Claudine Gay, a larger goal was always in sight. Keeanga-Yamahatta Taylor January 22, 2024 Read the full article here The New Yorker
The Dubious, Racially Charged Flood Project Biden Is Resurrecting in Mississippi
Congress approved the construction of the Yazoo Pumps more than 80 years ago. They might finally be built—and disproportionately benefit white landowners. Nick Schwellenbach January 5, 2024 Read the full article here The New...
Attorney says video disputes charges that farmworker caused officer’s fatal heart attack
A Guatemalan teen is charged in the death of a Florida sheriff’s sergeant, but his attorney says video shows the officer made an illegal stop and search and used excessive force. Suzanne Gamboa December...
The Unknown History of Black Uprisings
In a new book, the historian Elizabeth Hinton reveals that, in the late sixties and early seventies, there were hundreds of local rebellions against white violence and racial inequality. Since the declaration of Martin...
The Emerging Movement for Police and Prison Abolition
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Read the full article from The New Yorker here.
“Our current criminal-justice system is rooted in the assumption that millions of people require policing, surveillance, containment, prison. It is a dark view of humanity. By contrast, Kaba and others in this emergent movement fervently believe in the capacity of people to change in changed conditions. That is the optimism at the heart of the abolitionist project.”