Sunday’s rioting in Huntington Beach, California is sparking a national conversation about white youth and violence. It’s about time. I know this is a touchy subject. Some of my best friends are white, and some of them have teenage or twenty-something children. And of course I don’t favor... Read more...
Exclusive audio obtained by The Nation of a stop-and-frisk carried out by the New York Police Department freshly reveals the discriminatory and unprofessional way in which this controversial policy is being implemented on the city’s streets. On June 3, 2011, three plainclothes New York Cit... Read more...
Fruitvale Station chronicles the true story of the last 24 hours of Oscar Grant’s life - a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who was fatally shot by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California. In the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009 on the platform of the Fruitvale BART ... Read more...