Blog Posts in 2015

Video of Laquan McDonald shooting in Chicago, Illinois. Laquan McDonald, a black teenager, was shot by a Chicago police officer 16 times. It took the District Attorney’s office over a year to charge ...

Greenwood is a neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During the early 20th century it became known as America’s “Black Wall Street” because it was one of the most wealthy and successful black communities ...

The Black Lives Matter activist movement arose in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin trial. The movement began through the copious use and spread of the hashtag ...

On October 3 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed The Racial & Identity Profiling Act of 2015 (AB-953) into California law, which is a a data collection law to combat concerns about racial ...

In today’s technologically advanced world, videos of police arrests and police shootings are becoming more numerous. The average U.S. citizen has access to a smart phone that has recording ...

Given the 24 hour news cycle world within which we live thanks to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram (and on and on and on!), police shootings and deaths in police custody are gaining national attention. ...