Nature Welcomes Queer People When Society Doesn鈥檛
For the city鈥檚 LGBTQ community, Toronto鈥檚 outdoor spaces have been sites of both liberation and violence
Police Brutality
Analysis | 2024 Election | Defunding Police | Progress 2025: Race and Policing | Progress 2025 | Activism | #DefundPolice
Can Elections Still Help Defund Police?
Efforts to invest in 鈥渃are, not cops鈥� continue in advance of the 2024 election鈥攁lbeit at a slower pace than in 2020.
Video | Washington | YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Initiative 940 | Puyallup Tribe | Police Immunity | police accountability | Tacoma | Qualified Immunity
Will Washington鈥檚 Police Accountability Measure Work?
Frank Hopper shares the story of how Washington鈥檚 Puyallup Tribe helped pass Initiative 940, the nation鈥檚 first measure ending qualified immunity for police.
Video | #DefundPolice | YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Movement for Black Lives | Defunding Police | Black Lives Matter
Black Americans Back Defunding Police
A new survey by the Movement for Black Lives finds that a majority of Black Americans support reallocating police funding toward community care.
Seeking Safety as a Black Woman in New Cities
After moving to several unfamiliar cities in the past year, author and scholar Norell Edwards asks: 鈥淲hat does allyship look like while protecting my own safety?鈥�
Where Mutual Aid Comes to Its Own Assistance
Amid police crackdowns on mutual aid efforts around housing, many activists are finding support in each other.
How Black History Paves the Way for a Just Black Future
Alicia Garza is searching for Black-led solutions to some of the biggest problems of our democracy鈥攕olutions that go far beyond a hashtag.
The Anti-Blackness at the Root of Police Violence
Scholar Rashad Shabazz explains how anti-Black bias is so central to American policing that even Black officers are influenced by it.
Why Fatal Police Interactions Are Avoidable
Police too often claim that confusion during an encounter caused them to fire fatal shots, as in the case of Patrick Lyoya. But there are solutions.
The U.S. Constitution Was Meant to Be a Work in Progress
Author and legal scholar Elie Mystal鈥檚 first book argues that the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights are deeply flawed, but that it鈥檚 still possible to use them to protect the rights of women and people of color.
An Afro-Indigenous Perspective on Policing
In his new book, Kyle T. Mays argues that the violence of policing has always been intimately tied to U.S. democracy.
How U.S. Wars Abroad Are Intimately Tied to Police Brutality at Home
The demands to defund the police are linked to the call for ending militarism. There is a strong case to be made for these movements to join forces against both forms of violence.
Reimagining a Better World After George Floyd鈥檚 Death
This special audio report from YES! and Public News Service explores the ways communities affected by police violence are organizing to keep each other safe, in Minneapolis and beyond.
Opinion | Minneapolis Police Department | Racial Justice | Racial Equity | Daunte Wright | George Flyod | Gun Violence | #BlackLivesMatter | Black Lives Matter | Racism | Minneapolis
How Many 麻豆社事件 Times Must We Say the Same Thing?
No more reforms. It鈥檚 time for true transformation.
The Capitol Insurrection and White Supremacist Infiltration of US Police
There is a long history of racism in U.S. policing. For all Americans to be truly safe, it is important to weed out White supremacy, especially in the institution sworn to protect us all.
Native Americans on Police Response to Capitol Insurrection
鈥淣o way would Black or Brown people be treated that way had they attacked a symbol of our democracy.鈥�
What Comes Next for Portland鈥檚 Protests?
After more than 100 days of continual demonstrations, protesters in Portland are looking to the future鈥攁nd each other鈥攆or ways to sustain their movement for Black lives.
How Portland Protesters Keep Each Other Safe
鈥淧rotesting ultimately isn鈥檛 safe and we鈥檙e not trying to say that it is,鈥� says one Portland street medic. 鈥淏ut that doesn鈥檛 mean we can鈥檛 take care of each other.鈥�
Inside Portland鈥檚 Autonomous Protest Movement
Portland, Oregon鈥檚 five months of ongoing protests in support of Black lives are sustained by a vast, multifaceted, and ever-evolving network of activists, organizers, and mutual aid.
#EndSARS: Inside Nigeria鈥檚 Fight to End Police Brutality
Demanding an end to the escalating violence of Nigeria鈥檚 Special Anti-Robbery Squad has mobilized youth across religious and ethnic divides.
Police Encounters During Mental Health Crises Don’t Have to Be Violent
In the wake of another police killing of an unarmed Black man struggling with a mental health disability, I asked what cops鈥攁nd everyone鈥攃an do to help.
Rochester Police Killed an Unarmed Black Man Having a Mental Health Crisis
鈥淚 placed the phone call for my brother to get help, not for my brother to get lynched," says Joseph Prude.
Analysis | George Floyd | Mexico | Kenosha | Wisconsin | Jacob Blake | Federal Agents | Ciudad Juarez
History Shows Federal Agents Don鈥檛 Stop Civil Unrest
Militarized federal interventions can actually escalate conflict and often leave the underlying causes of protests or crime unresolved.
Are Police Unions Part of the U.S. Labor Movement?
Historically, police have used their legal authority to protect businesses and private property over the working class.
How the Police Killing of a Black Brazilian Teen Sparked a Movement
The police killing of Jo茫o Pedro Mattos Pinto, a 14-year-old Black Brazilian in Rio de Janeiro, unmasked the scope of police brutality amid a pandemic and led to an unprecedented court decision.
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