Law Enforcement

“If you make a mistake, another mistake, there is a very severe possibility that you’re both going to get shot,” says a cop to the man and the woman lying face down on the floor of a hotel hallway. It…

Three years post-uprising, the community still struggles to be seen.

Thinking about the place of violence in American civil religion helps solve a perplexing theme in the debate over professional athletes’ protests.

As bipartisan reform efforts have steadily drifted rightward, the heavy hand of evangelicals in prison reform efforts has created new kinds of problems.

On June 8, 2017, the California Board of State and Community Corrections announced the reallocation of $103 million in savings resulting from the passage of 2014’s Proposition 47 criminal justice sentencing reforms.

More than an actual means of improving policy, “bipartisan criminal justice reform” has become a mantra signifying hope. But what, exactly, are bipartisan advocates seeking to reform?

These readings explore the intersections between the War on Drugs and the War on Terror, Neoliberalism and prison reform, and race and surveillance.

When Black athletes like Gabrielle Douglas fail to be model Olympians and model players, they become treasonous.

Why is it always “courageous” to stand with Black people?

Last night, Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman declined to take questions during a press conference, opting instead to give a plainspoken but powerful speech on the police killings of black…