police brutality

Because of the growth of the Prohibition state, police abuse fomented considerable discussions among police and lawyer associations, criminologists, and others.

The photojournalist Bud Lee captured the riots of 1967 and the human cost of the brutal police crackdown.

Decades before the recent police violence in Memphis, a brutally beaten Latino man was tossed by officers into a Houston bayou and drowned.

A glaring portrait of the human cost of law enforcement officers who claim to be above the law.

Why reinserting race and class into our understanding of Pride is so important.

"It didn’t make much sense for us to be talking about justice in the classroom if we weren’t willing to get in the struggle in the streets."

Mississippi makes a move to confront a shameful episode from the past.

Critics of Black Lives Matter have held up King as a foil to the movement’s criticisms of law enforcement, but those are views that King himself shared.

America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.

Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Blacks during the civil rights movement. Their ability to get away with it shows why most proposals for police reform are bound to fail.

The history of unarmed police brutality is rooted in anti-Blackness.

Thirty years after the police beating of Rodney King, it's clear that shock and anger don't translate into meaningful reform.

Philadelphia’s PAL and the Black Panther Party’s efforts to mold black youth into their own image.

Fifty years ago, Newark, New Jersey, elected its first Black mayor—Kenneth Gibson—at a moment when there was an urgency to address police violence.

In 1949, truncheon-wielding police officers descended on the racially integrated concert of singer Paul Robeson.

A lethal incident of police brutality in Miami in 1979 offers just one of countless examples of the reality generations of African Americans have faced.

A movement’s early days as told by those who rose up, those who bore witness, those who grieved, and those who hoped.

Exploring freedpeople’s struggle against police brutality during Reconstruction.

The 1993 song reinvigorated the rap legend’s career — and against all odds became a Hollywood (and police) favorite

Decades before protests against mass incarceration galvanized the black freedom struggle, Malcolm indicted the entire justice system as racist.