Former Los Angeles police chief William “Bill” Bratton is a staunch supporter of stop and frisk—a practice that intensifies racial profiling and police brutality towards black and brown people while failing to prevent crime. Bratton loves stop and frisk so much that he says cities without it are “doomed to failure.” So imagine my surprise when […]
Author / Rania Khalek
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is getting an earful for postponing the execution of a death row inmate for another month in order to attend a fundraiser for her re-election campaign. This came as a surprise to many given Bondi’s fervent support for Florida’s recently passed “Timely Justice Act“—a law that speeds up the execution process […]
I’m loving this map from the Atlas of Prejudice. It’s US foreign policy in a nutshell.
Overwhelming public opposition to bombing Syria has been repeatedly attributed to the Iraq war by various media outlets. They’ve even come up with clever terms, like “Iraq fatigue” and “Iraq syndrome”, to describe the supposed illness that afflicts an overwhelming majority of the American public—because, it turns out, not wanting to drop bombs on people […]
A group of Muslim teens were allegedly beaten up by NYPD officers on Monday, August 26, while playing handball in a Bronx park, and had their hijabs, or Muslim headscarves, torn off in the process. Sisters Lamis Chapman, 12, and Khalia Wilson, 14, told the New York Daily News that they were playing handball on […]
Philip Agnew of the Dream Defenders and Sofia Campos of United We Dream were scheduled to speak at yesterday’s commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington. Both are youth led organizations tackling civil rights issues like immigration, racial profiling and the school-to-prison pipeline. That might explain why the were cut from the roster last […]
Michelle Alexander, author of the bestseller “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In the Age of Colorblindness”, posted a statement on Facebook today about her desire to broaden the conversation on racial injustice to include issues she typically has not addressed, like U.S. militarism and mass surveillance. She says she came to this conclusion after […]
(Updated below) Fifty-four-year-old Stacey Dean Rambold, a former high school teacher in Montana, was sentenced to 30 days in prison for raping 14-year-old Cherice Morales. That’s right, just 30 days.
I spent yesterday in Washington, DC, where the the fiftieth anniversary of the March On Washington was being commemorated. And unsurprisingly it was a big disappointment, just as I expected it would be. It may seem harsh, but to think that a day packed with pretty speeches by a diverse array of powerful elites, like […]
Authorities in Hayward, California are investigating the shooting death of Donny Gene Simmons Jr, a father of two who was shot dead Wednesday night by Hayward Police in front of his wife and two young daughters, marking the second fatal police-involved shooting by the Hayward Police Department this year. Police say that they were responding […]
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