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  by Philip V. McHarris Communities directly impacted by violence are starting to advocate for the diversion of funds from policing towards more community based solutions to violence and harm. Unfortunately, city leaders are not listening. Early in December, residents and community organizers attended the Minneapolis City budget hearing.  They argued against allocating funds for […]

Throughout the country, prisons are acquiring technology to translate incarcerated people’s voices into specific biometric signatures to create mass computer databases.

This past Tuesday, the Senate passed the First Step Act with much bipartisan support. The bill provides the most significant reforms for federal prisoners in the criminal justice system in decades, although critics point out that given the “tough on crime” anti-Black rhetoric both parties have been trafficking in, that isn’t much.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld victories in lower courts by Planned Parenthood after Republican-led states sought to strip the organization of Medicaid funding following the court’s move further to the right with the confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh.

Once again, the link between mass shooting and domestic violence is further established, this time as Mercy Hospital Emergency Room doctor Tamara O’Neal was shot and killed by her ex-fiancé Juan Lopez before he moved on to kill two other targets. According to CBS News, the Chicago Police department reported that O’Neal and Lopez argued […]

From Hollywood’s Harvey Weinstein to media giant Les Moonves, the #MeToo movement to hold accountable the abuses of powerful men is growing. In a powerful display of that growth, McDonald’s workers went on strike to protest sexual harassment in 10 U.S. cities this past Tuesday.

Wichita, Kansas-based Cargill Meat Solutions agreed to pay a $1.5 million settlement to 138 Somali-American Muslims who were denied prayer breaks and subsequently fired after they protested at its Fort Morgan, Colorado beef processing plant.

This essay contains discussions of sexual assault and racist violence  A Black woman was wrongfully terminated this week. Lisa Benson Cooper is an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist in Kansas City, Missouri. After working at the same company for fourteen years, she was fired when two white women coworkers complained to HR about an article that […]

The remains of ninety-five Black people were recently found buried at a construction site in Sugar Land, Texas. The vast majority of reports about this discovery neglect to call these dead Black people what they really were: enslaved.   This essay contains discussions of racialized state violence, slavery, and lynching.   “African-American forced laborers” have […]

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, singer/rapper Janelle Monae revealed that her sexuality is fluid, telling the magazine, “Being a Black queer woman in America-someone who has been in relationships with both men and women–I consider myself to be a free ass motherfucker.” Monae continued, “Later I read about pansexuality and was like ‘Oh […]

By Mark Matlock The possibility of weed legalization can be exciting to young people like me. Especially since our country’s current policies regarding weed have increased discrimination already fueled by the War on Drugs. But excitement can make us forget that being able to consume weed doesn’t get rid of the overt anti-Blackness that comes […]

Reproductive justice advocates—Sistersong, in particular—and community organizers pushed for more humane treatment of pregnant inmates in North Carolina and helped secure a recent policy change to that end in the state. The News Observer reported that Prison Director Kenneth Lassiter signed a policy to end the use of leg or wrist restraints on women, who […]