ACLU Blueprints Offer Vision to Cut US Incarceration Rate in Half by Prioritizing 'People Over Prisons'
Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and directed…
The Charlotte police officer who killed Keith Lamont Scott will not be charged. In a news conference on Wednesday, R. Andrew…
In my previous column, I promised to take up the topic of the historical roots of the continuing mistrust between…
As his family and community prepare to bury Terence Crutcher on Saturday, the students of a Tulsa middle school -…
"You have a company using profits from the sale of what has been called 'the most potent and dangerous opioid…
Few were surprised on Dec. 7, 2015, when U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced a civil rights investigation of the…
The United States houses 25% of the world's inmates despite having only 5% of the world's population. This fact prompted…
Inglewood, CA — On Sunday, police responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle parked on Manchester Boulevard around 3:10…
Acclaimed "The New Jim Crow" author and Ohio State University professor Michelle Alexander, one of the first to draw the…
The 12-year-old boy died at a hospital, where he was taken by ambulance after he was shot by a police…
There is little doubt that the Black Lives Matter era of protests will be branded as a millennial moment. But…
In wake of latest deaths, protesters say to Mayor Rahm Emanuel: 'You failed us before, but now's your time to…
If asked what state has the highest incarceration rate of Black people, most people would likely cite Mississippi, Alabama or…
The Drug Enforcement Administration is not having a great year.
The chief of the agency stepped down in April under a…
As states across the country are relaxing their marijuana laws and federal lawmakers consider doing the same, at least one…
Image of police at protest pointing weapon at son of congressman Keith Ellison goes viral
After years of Americans being locked up in historic numbers, bipartisan wheels in Congress are turning toward reform.
The New England Conference of United Methodist Churches voted this past Saturday on a resolution declaring that the Christian thing…
Black and brown girls are first victimized and then punished, often in connection with sexual violence that has been perpetrated…
Two Mississippi cannabis reform organizations have joined forces to end marijuana prohibition in their state, and if successful will pull off one…
A series of votes on the Justice Department appropriations bill attempt to rein in the rogue agency.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reports 2.2 million people are in our nation's jails and prisons and another 4.5…
The photo shows two white Chicago Police officers posing with an unidentified black man. The officers — Timothy McDermott and Jerome…
Ray Charles Staten Sr. should have celebrated his 60th birthday this month. Instead, his family marked the fourth anniversary of…
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America, Naomi Murakawa, Oxford University Press, 2014
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in…
The dean of the law school at the University of the District of Columbia urged students to take part in…
Ruthlessly wielding its power over those who dared to take to the streets to challenge it, Baltimore judges and other…
Thousands marched—mostly peacefully—in cities including Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C.
Demonstrators still seeking answers over the mysterious and troubling death of Freddie Gray, who died of a spinal injury while…
Seizing on the growing backlash against police brutalization and discriminatory mass incarceration, people across the country on Tuesday took to…
Back in June, Seattle resident Oscar Perez Giron committed the most minor of crimes, and ended up dead.
When fare enforcement…
In 2004, Sean Bailey recalls, he was driving through the streets of St. Louis County en route to a party,…
When a community issues arrest warrants for more offenses than it has residents, something's deeply wrong.
In a letter to be presented to the White House today, nearly 200 civil rights, faith-based organizing, criminal justice,…
March 5 marks an important but oft-overlooked anniversary. On a winter’s day 245 years ago, in the year 1770, an…
It was exactly three years ago today that Trayvon Martin made the fatal mistake of putting on his hoodie and…
Marijuana is already legal in four states and DC, and 23 states have medical marijuana. Now, a pair of federal…
A sentence handed down this week in Dothan, Alabama, raises questions about fairness and justice. And race. A Cowarts, Alabama,…
Girls of color face much harsher school discipline than their white peers but are excluded from current efforts to address…
NC State Representative Rodney Moore (99th district), plans to introduce the Probation of Discrimination Bill “mid-February.” The name of the bill…
A New York City police officer has been indicted in the shooting death of 28-year-old Akai Gurley, law enforcement sources…
Phillip Agnew isn’t trying to make history; he’s just heeding its call. As the head of the Florida-based Dream Defenders,…
Supporters for marijuana legalization say that the city of Hamilton’s proposal to ban medical marijuana sales throughout its limits ahead…
On May 16, 2010, a Detroit SWAT team raided the home of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones. As officers entered the home,…
The ‘leaderless’ movement is being propelled by the efforts of women of color.
Roughly 20 to 30 protesters staged a “die in” in the Longworth House Office Building cafeteria Wednesday afternoon to bring…
The recent killing of two New York City police officers can’t be allowed to silence the movement against police brutality.…
Prisons employ and exploit the ideal worker. Prisoners do not receive benefits or pensions. They are not paid overtime. They…
Minnesotans protesting police violence and institutional racism could face "staggering" fees and criminal charges for a protest at Mall of…
The movement challenging the criminal justice system's treatment of black people continues to build this week. On Monday morning, Bay…
A Gary native whose son was fatally shot by police last month in Tennessee was among more than three dozen…
The House Republican who could end up undoing a District of Columbia voter referendum to legalize marijuana has a blunt…
Some of you may remember the Kerner Commission, but many younger members of our audience probably will not. The Kerner…
On the morning of Aug. 29, the body of Lennon Lacy was found hanging from a noose fastened to a…
Wednesday night, a grand jury in New York City refused to indict police officers in the killing of Eric Garner,…
The grand jury has made its decision. Darren Wilson is no longer a police officer. The protests, in Ferguson, Missouri,…
Long troubled and tenuous, the relationship between police departments and African-American communities is now toxic, and its repercussions may be…
In today’s economy, overwhelming debt is an unfortunate reality for millions of Americans. From credit card debt to mortgage debt…
At 1:01 PM on Monday afternoon thousands of individuals—a large portion of whom are college and high school students—stopped what…
In an announcement today, the White House has pledged $263 million in new federal funding for police training and body…
Hundreds of protesters in Missouri have a begun a week-long long march organised by the National Association for the Advancement…
What can be done to prevent more police killings like the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri? What can…
For Michael Brown, the stereotypes that Darren Wilson believed proved to be deadly.
Ferguson is ground zero for all Americans who are interested in a vision of social justice that transcends anything we…
The events in Ferguson, Missouri this past week have been both shocking and traumatizing. We are a nation at war…
An indictment of the Ferguson police officer who killed Michael Brown would not prove that black lives matter in America.
When it comes to racially lopsided arrests, the most remarkable thing about Ferguson, Mo., might be just how ordinary it…
When major strides are made in criminal justice reform—as just happened in California with the passage of Proposition 47, a…
Can it be that simple? Has America’s long standing history of racism caught up with us? Has the south risen…
As part of the American Civil Liberties Union’s recent report on police militarization, the Massachusetts chapter of the organization sent…
Marijuana reform advocates score big on Tuesday, with full legalization measures approved by voters in Alaska, Oregon and Washington, DC
'This historic vote demonstrates support to advance a public safety strategy beyond incarceration to include treatment and prevention.'
When her daughter was first incarcerated in Arizona's Perryville State Prison, "Rae" sent her money orders bought at the local…
Corrections is the ultimate human service—and it can be done more cheaply and more effectively without locking so many people…
From the War on Drugs to the militarization of police, these deeply unsettling milestones got us where we are
"Every day that Michael Brown doesn't receive justice, we are reminded that it's open season on black lives in Ferguson.…
When Colorado and Washington State legalized pot for recreational use, those who supported it had a lot of reasons. It’s…
A Department of Justice letter sent to the Police Chief Tom Jackson of Ferguson, Missouri on Friday instructed all officers…
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Mississippi, and the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center filed a class…
More than 3,000 Ferguson residents have registered since August 9. In a new development that many activists believe could spark a…
There's a lot we know about the death of Michael Brown and its aftermath, but many questions remain unanswered.
It’s been…
Young black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their…
Profiteers and their political allies don’t give up the ship without mobilizing all their resources for the fight. They will…
A federal jury decided Thursday that a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer used excessive force in the 2011 death of a man…
As I watch the events in Ferguson Missouri I can't help but think about my own time in law enforcement…
Amnesty International has sent monitors to the scene. Palestinians are tweeting advice on how to cope with tear gas. Tibetan…
"These disasters drag into the light exactly who is already being thrown away," notes Naomi Klein
How about some good news? Kansas Democratic Representative advances bill for Native Peoples.
For those of us who were in Charlottesville on August 12th, nothing will ever be the same. We learned that…
As tensions grow in North Dakota, with multiple eviction orders facing the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their battle against…
As more and more signs point towards the government trying to strong-arm Dakota Access Pipeline protectors and activists in the…
The ongoing crisis has left the city without safe drinking water for over two years, but the state claims water…
In a follow-up of its letter to leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes, the U.S.…
In response to the altogether shocking announcement the Army Corps of Engineers will be evicting water protectors from the Oceti…
The US senator from New Jersey also wants the Justice Department to send federal authorities to the protest site to…
Together, the Labor Coalition for Community Action, which includes the A. Phillip Randolph Institute, the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance,…
Following Saturday’s brutal attack on peaceful protesters by private security mercenaries and vicious guard dogs acting on behalf of Dakota…
A North Dakota federal court has prohibited indigenous tribes from protesting the Bakken pipeline on their own reservations.
Dakota Access, a…
Lately, the public discourse around immigrants in the United States has turned decisively negative. From anti-Muslim sentiments to outlandish accusations…
To date, over 25,000 children in Flint, Michigan, have been exposed to lead contamination from the city’s water supply. How…
The city of Flint, Snyder's top legal aide wrote in October 2014, “should try to get back on the Detroit…
New emails reveal that top advisers knew about problems with Flint water as far back as 2014, reinvigorating calls that…
A nearly $1 billion settlement between the Obama administration and Native American tribes has been settled over claims the government…
Public health expert argues for temporary resettlement to protect children from further risk of poisoning
This is a plan for pressuring whoever is in office, whether they are sympathetic to the causes of racial and…
As affected families pack halls and overflow rooms in Congress, people want to know why Governor Snyder is hiding
Academic pressure and financial motives has prohibited scientists from asking important questions
In their hasty scramble to blame the Flint water crisis on anything — anything at all — other than the…
The Clinton family likes to portray themselves as champions of black Americans. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Going…
Residents and advocacy organizations are seeking outside intervention, and a complete overhaul of the state government
Senate Democrats said Wednesday they will push to address the water crisis in Flint, Michigan as part of a bipartisan…
While the state government mobilizes a massive response to the water crisis in Flint, handing out bottled water and filters…
Not only is the Michigan government poisoning residents, but now they are threatening to take their children for not paying…
The lead poisoning of children in Flint is only the latest example of environmental racism in the U.S.
The leader of an armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge in Oregon plans to have a ceremony Saturday for…
Armed militants at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge continue to damage both the delicate ecosystem of the refuge and archeological sites…
Details of how Flint’s water was contaminated, and of how pleas for help were neglected, are leading to calls…
While Michigan’s Republican governor Rick Snyder and his administration may have poisoned the entire city of Flint’s water supply by electing…
To poison all the children in an historic American city is no small feat'
Gov. Rick Snyder declared a state of emergency for Flint and Genesee County Tuesday as a result of the contaminated drinking…
In the quiet week between Christmas and New Year's Day, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality chief Dan Wyant resigned, followed…
The name of JEB Stuart High School should be changed because “along with the name, comes a history of racism,…
If elected each one of six possible Republican candidates have promised to sign a bill within their first 100 days…
Michigan state officials insisted that the water supply in Flint was safe even though they knew an unusual number of…
Four centuries ago, the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape were spread along the coasts of what is now New Jersey and Delaware.
“They encountered…
Moments before going to trial, members of the “Homrich 9” — so-called because they intentionally blocked the entrance of a…
As of Saturday, Rev. Edward Pinkney has been "segregated" (i.e. placed in solitary confinement and isolated from other prisoners and…
A jury trial is underway in Detroit for human rights activists arrested for blocking trucks which were going to cutoff…
Twenty years ago, there was a gathering of men in the U.S. Capital to address the exact issues that Black,…
A movement to change the name of a high school honoring Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart has gained support from Hollywood,…
At the start of the year, a group of 57 Native Americans students from the Lakota tribe were taken to…
I was recently in Orlando, Florida, a few weeks after the brutal murder of nine African-American members of the historic…
When the Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina statehouse Friday morning, Gov. Nikki Haley spoke solemnly of the…
The tiny town of Whiteclay, Nebraska sits outside the Pine Ridge Reservation. Boasting a population of 12, it exists only to…
The “Respond With Love” campaign was put together by three Muslim organizations to raise money for black churches that have…
Early on Saturday morning a black activist took matters into her own hands by scaling the flagpole at South Carolina's…
In Detroit, safety is a privilege enjoyed by the white and wealthy.
Some white people may be sitting on the sidelines out of discomfort over making faux pas – but they may…
A fire that engulfed a small, predominantly black church in Charlotte was set on purpose, local officials said Wednesday. Now…
The Confederate Flag means different things to different people. It symbolizes and expresses thought, so it is protected by the…
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said Tuesday that he will phase out a state-sponsored license plate featuring an image of the…
To win its eminent domain suit, Missoula must prove that it is the best manager of its drinking water.
A drought has forced Californians to ask themselves how much water their lawns and gardens truly need.
A money shortage has…
A couple of dozen protesters rallied outside City Hall on Monday to call on officials to reverse a decision to…
At the end of March, Baltimore city officials announced that they would be turning off the water supply to a…
Starting this week, 25,000 households in Baltimore will suddenly lose their access to water for owing bills of $250 or…
Last week, in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club at Cobo Center, former Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr told…
A simmering water war is about to come to a boil over the fate of historic, well-loved public reservoirs in…
"Here, Whirlpool controls not only Benton Harbor and the residents, but also the court system itself. They will do anything…
The fight in Benton Harbor is a war, it’s not a conflict. It’s a war over whether America will have…
Rev. Edward Pinkney, the 66-year-old community activist who has battled for decades on behalf of the mostly Black population of…
In the new Detroit, a small number of wealthy residents are protected by private security and constant surveillance while the…
Newly-approved Plan of Adjustment means sacrificing pensions, healthcare, city services, they say
Despite mass protests, the emergency management water shutoffs in Detroit have resumed, even as UN experts publish a press release…
The people of Detroit are vowing resistance after a federal bankruptcy judge on Monday ruled that the city can continue…
Saying there is no such thing as a legal right to clean running water, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes dismissed a…
Racism does not only come in the form of bullets fired by a police officer. Detroit’s socio-political problems are furthered…
A new mass rally in Detroit is planned for Friday, August 29, the day the state-enforced city bankruptcy trial begins.…
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Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and Katherine Clark (MA-05) today introduced the Tip Income Protection (TIP) Act, legislation to protect tipped…
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A federal judge issued an injunction against President Barack Obama’s new overtime rule Tuesday, a major setback that delays one…
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Clergy join with low wage workers to call for $15 minimum wage and declare firm opposition to 'systemic racism, classism,…
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