BEVERLY — Talking about race, privilege and biases can feel intimidating and overwhelming for some, but conversations – and action – are necessary to help dismantle racism. With the hope…
Jazz McKinney started as executive director of the Grand Rapids Pride Center on March 15 after previously serving as the organization’s interim director and chair of its Transgender and Gender-Non-Conforming…
This past weekend, two protests were held in Dallas the day before Mother’s Day seeking to highlight violence against women, internationally and domestically. Weaponized Rape and Ethnic Cleansing in Ethiopia…
Eighty-five percent of those polled in a recent survey for Wisconsin’s statewide police union believe equipping police with body cameras should be a priority, and 60% of nonwhite respondents called…
An Iowa City councilmember is calling on her colleagues to have a serious discussion about abolishing the police, as part of the city’s efforts to restructure its police force. Councilmember…
Black Americans have been fighting for reparations tied to slavery for generations. Here's what that fight looks like in 2021. After decades of work from activists pushing the issue, presidential…
To accelerate racial justice, we need a national truth commission—lessons and warnings from those who have been there before. ON NOV. 3, 1979, five young labor organizers were murdered by Nazis…
The Missouri bill has been pared back to only allow police to use chokeholds in self-defense if they or someone else are in serious danger EFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The…
In the weeks after George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer last May, the insistence that his death would be—must be—the last such killing at the hands of law…
A group of around 40 people gathered in a small Mississippi community over the weekend to honor the memory of a man lynched in Lafayette County. The William Winter Institute…