police brutality

Rap group N.W.A. understood vulgarity and controversy were necessary to draw attention to police brutality.

The pursuit of justice has been defined by a rote binary of punished in a cage versus unpunished and free.

"The problem is the way policing was built," historian Khalil Muhammad says.

The Northern Student Movement considered inviting Rosa Parks to give a speech on police brutality, but ultimately decided against it.

The history of patrols, body cams, and more.

“¿DEFACEMENT?,” Inspired by the 1983 Police Murder of Michael Stewart.

Violence perpetrated by cops doesn’t simply boil down to individual bad actors—it’s also a systemic, judicial failing.

How a team of lawyers exposed lies about police violence.

The young Civil Rights activist was killed in the dead of night by police and the FBI. Who was Fred Hampton?

The battle over police-torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.

For years, Chicago cops tortured false confessions out of hundreds of black men. Years later, the survivors fought for reparations.

How a landmark report on the 1960s race riots fell short on police reform.

The February 1968 killing of three student protesters in Orangeburg, SC marked a turning point in the black freedom struggle.

The shootings occurred two years before the deaths at Kent State University, but remain a little-known incident in the Civil Rights Movement.

Police brutality has been a hot topic in contemporary society, but when did this all really start and where did dogs get involved?

The answer runs through the history of anti-lynching laws.

What the 1971 uprising and massacre reveal about our prison system and the liberal democratic state.

Since slavery, dogs have been used to intimidate and control African Americans.

The Kerner report neglected that police were not simply careless with black lives; they deliberately sought to punish black lives.

The case he didn’t expect to lose. And why it mattered that he did.