The Big Problem With That Big Study on Police Shootings and Racial Profiling
And the need for better data. By Jared Keller (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) In the aftermath of the…
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Where and Why Do Police Kill African Americans?
If we’re ever going to get a handle on officer-involved killings of African Americans, we must determine the…
Where Do the Presidential Candidates Stand on Police Shootings?
The candidates have very different plans for action. By Francie Diep Activists protest in Times Square in response…
Here’s the Racial Breakdown of Who’s Most Likely to Die From Police Bullets
Black and Hispanic Americans fare far worse than whites. By Francie Diep Demonstrators march in St. Louis, Missouri,…
Being Black and Watching Obama From Abroad
Celebrating one of Barack Obama's greatest feats: making the color of American citizenship less white.
America’s Long, Rich History of Trashing Poor Whites
In White Trash, historian Nancy Isenberg charts America’s perennial exploitation of one of the country’s most derided groups.…
The Stress of Systemic Poverty Is Killing Us
Racial minorities experience shorter lives, but until we can fix economic inequality there’s an easy way to improve…