2015/03/04 – The Justice Department on Wednesday released a scathing 102-page report revealing systemic racial discrimination against African-Americans at the hands of the Ferguson Police Department and city officials. After an extensive federal civil rights probe, the Justice Department found what it described …..
How our transportation system discriminates against the most vulnerable. 2015/3/2-At the easternmost edge of Lake Erie, where the lake meets the Niagara River, the Peace Bridge connects the United States and Canada. The two-thirds-of-a-mile-long bridge is one of the busiest …..
2015/3/2-The Justice Department has nearly completed a highly critical report accusing the police in Ferguson, Mo., of making discriminatory traffic stops of African-Americans that created years of racial animosity leading up to an officer’s shooting of a black teenager last …..
Chicago police have told their version of how 17-year-old black teen Laquan McDonald died. The autopsy tells a different story. 2014/2/11-An autopsy tells a story. The genre is mystery: a narrative set in motion by a corpse. The pathologist-narrator investigates …..
2014/2/11-Near the end of the 2015 Grammy Awards, which aired on Sunday, musical icon Prince presented the Grammy for Best Album, with this preamble: “Albums still matter. Like books and Black lives, albums still matter.” In just over ten words, …..