Rikers, Ferguson, and the Blinkering Effect of Power
Police in Ferguson. Image: Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Three times in the last five years, prison guards at Rikers Island have beat inmates to death. To date, not one of the officers involved in those...
View ArticleThe ‘Support Darren Wilson Group’ Has Raised $129,000, But What Is It...
Of the many voices that have arisen out of Ferguson since the killing of Michael Brown on August 9, one has been noticeably absent: Darren Wilson, the officer who shot and killed an unarmed...
View ArticleWhy Don’t Cops Go to Jail?
More than 300 African-Americans were extrajudicially killed by police officers, security guards, or vigilante lawmen in 2012. One of these was Trayvon Martin, shot to death by George Zimmerman, who...
View ArticleWhite People Are So Colorblind They Can Only See White People
An article on The Atlantic yesterday by Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) CEO Robert P. Jones uses survey data to suggest that, given the racially homogeneous social networks of white...
View Article‘No Angel’: The New York Times Misses The Point on Michael Brown
On the front page of the New York Times today, you’ll see two profiles that serve as a case study in the way that we talk about race in this country. They are of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old...
View ArticleNYPD Officer Kills Unarmed Brooklyn Man
A 28-year-old man is dead after an NYPD officer shot and killed him in the stairwell of the Louis H. Pink Houses in East New York last night. The incident took place late last night, when two officers...
View ArticleFerguson Protestors Shut Down Three Bridges, Doused Bill Bratton In Fake Blood
In case, somehow, you missed it, last night was an evening of deep unrest in New York City and elsewhere after a St. Louis grand jury failed to indict police officer Darren Wilson for killing teenaged...
View ArticleThe Value of a Black Man’s Life Is Less Than the Price of a Big Mac: How...
photo via AP/John Minchillo After two days of deliberation, a grand jury declined to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Mike Brown. The decision,...
View ArticleFuck Your Facebook Friends
Setting: The Manhattan-bound F train, near the 7th Avenue station; 11/25/2014 11am Characters: Two women in their late-20s/early-30s “I just can’t even stand to look at Facebook right now.” “I know!...
View ArticleNo Way Out: On Death, the Prison Industrial System, and Why Orange Is The New...
Five days before the third season of Orange is The New Black aired on Netflix, Kaleif Browder committed suicide. He tore his bedsheets into strips, coiled them into a rope, tied the makeshift rope...
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