Doing justice to Mandela’s legacy
December 19, 2013
—Robert N. Kraft A remarkable set of events occurred in South Africa in the final half decade of the 20th century – events that are now mostly forgotten. In the… READ MORE
December 19, 2013
—Robert N. Kraft A remarkable set of events occurred in South Africa in the final half decade of the 20th century – events that are now mostly forgotten. In the… READ MORE
October 16, 2013
—Leigh Goodmark On May 7, 2013, law enforcement was called to the home that Kendra Diggs shared with her boyfriend, Baltimore City police officer James Walton Smith. After hearing a… READ MORE
July 22, 2013
—Victor Rios In ten years of studying inner city boys labeled at-risk by law enforcement and schools, I have found that poor Black Americans and Latinos are often deemed as… READ MORE
July 16, 2013
—Jeannine Bell [This article originally appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.] George Zimmerman will not be the last vigilante to stand trial for the killing of an unarmed black teen. While… READ MORE
July 15, 2013
—Jelani Cobb [This article originally appeared in The New Yorker.] The not-guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial came down moments after I left a screening of “Fruitvale Station,” a… READ MORE
April 25, 2013
—David A. Harris [This article originally appeared in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Read it here.] Just hours after the second Boston bomber was taken alive, the government announced that it… READ MORE
March 28, 2013
—Leigh Goodmark Worried that your complaining witness won’t follow through with her domestic violence complaint? New York police have a new weapon to use in such situations: running criminal checks… READ MORE
February 21, 2013
—Leigh Goodmark Melissa Davis could have prevented her husband, Daren Ruffin, from stabbing her to death last week. At least that’s the story the Baltimore Sun would have you believe…. READ MORE