White Man’s Justice Is Black People’s Grief
By Kevin Cooper “It’s not whether you win or lose that counts, but how you play the game that matters.” That’s what my people are often told. But we are not told that this so-called…
By Kevin Cooper “It’s not whether you win or lose that counts, but how you play the game that matters.” That’s what my people are often told. But we are not told that this so-called…
My Parents’ Murder Commentary by Megan Smith This month, I stood in front of the North Carolina Governor’s Mansion and asked Roy Cooper to remove all 135 people from our state’s death row and commute…
How the criminal, legal, and child welfare systems cooperate to punish families By Emma Peyton Williams The harmful effects of the criminal legal system on children are well-established. For years, evidence has shown that a…
and More Brutal By Silja J.A. Talvi Every morning, Mary Frances Barbee wakes up and experiences a “microsecond of happiness before the terror sets in.” Barbee had a heart attack, transient ischemic attack and then…
By Andrea Woods, qainat khan We celebrate Pride [2023] in defiance of the almost 500 anti-LGBTQ bills pending or passed in state legislatures around the country. Unsurprisingly, these attacks are turning to the criminal legal…
On any given day in 2020, roughly 630,000 people were locked up in local jails. The majority of them had not been convicted of a crime. After an arrest—wrongful or not—a person’s ability to leave…
Chava Shapiro and James Clark On August 29, a grand jury in Fulton County, Ga., issued an indictment against 61 alleged participants in the movement to defend Atlanta’s Weelaunee Forest and stop the building of…
Cynical hypocrisy on immigration policy Commentary by Rob Schofield As with so many other problems afflicting modern America—the climate emergency, economic inequality, the federal debt, gun violence, racism, our threadbare public education system—there’s plenty of…
Commentary by Carl Hintz Many people support the legalization of marijuana, and few people believe that tobacco, alcohol, or caffeine should be illegal. However, “hard drugs” such as cocaine, methamphetamine, and opioids should also be…
By Mike Baker After years of rising overdoses and an exodus of business from central Portland, Gov. Tina Kotek of Oregon said on Monday that state and city officials are proposing to roll back a…