Violated rights during arrest
I'm skeptical that his right won't continue to be violated.
Yuri Kochiyama
an American civil rights activist
The Bloody Sunday Inquiry
the paratroopers had fired the first shot, had fired on fleeing unarmed civilians, and shot and killed one man who was already wounded.
Episode 163: Ten Years After “Over the Garden Wall”
We're taking a cozy, autumnal trip back in time to "peak television," when animation was truly feral and we had shows like "Over the Garden Wall." We'll talk about this…
Phones Are Good, Actually with Taylor Lorenz
This week, Taylor Lorenz fights our latest moral panic. Are phones really making kids anxious, or are kids just good at noticing what's going on? {listen}
The Poet and the Riot
Shortly after Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote a poem about the power of riots.
Neighborhood lockdown after officer’s shooting is troubling, civil liberties lawyers say
Civil Liberties lawyers today joined the chorus of concern over isolating a neighborhood and restricting the movements of residents in the name of searching for a cop killer. “We are…
Congress Wants to Change the Americans With Disabilities Act and Undermine the Civil Rights of People With Disabilities
The Americans with Disabilities Act is the most comprehensive and foundational civil rights law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability. Yet, 27 years after it was passed, people with…
The Beginning or the End of America
During Black History Month we share a letter written by James Baldwin, one of the foremost novelists and public intellectuals of the 20th century. In 1970 Baldwin wrote an open letter to…