Outrage over racial profiling and the killing of African Americans by police officers and vigilantes has recently resurfaced following the death of …
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Remembering George Floyd: Experts on policing, protests and racism
Two years ago, over the summer of 2020, the murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis set off worldwide protests calling for racial justice and an end to police violence. Below is a roundup of a readers from scholars of policing, law, race and history to examine the ways in which the United States has – and hasn’t – changed since that day, and the potential lasting impacts on social and political movements, policing, activism and more.
High-profile police shootings and deaths of black men in custody – or even while out jogging – bring cries of racism across the country. The May 25, …
Considered to be the largest social justice movement since the civil rights era of the 1960s, Black Lives Matter is more than the scores of street …
The most powerful evidence for the prosecution at the trial of Derek Chauvin was a video showing the then-Minneapolis police officer pinning a …
When 17-year-old Darnella Frazier started recording video of Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd, she initiated a series of …
A flashbulb emits a high-pitched hum. A photograph of the legendary 19th-century abolitionist and newspaperman Frederick Douglass fades in …
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