2015/05/19 – It is a grave intellectual sin to conflate wearing uniforms with holding yourself accountable. Phil Bryant in his editorial insists upon selling this mythology of the grim yet reasonable police officer, the upstanding individual in uniform whose only …..
2015/05/19 – The nation’s second-largest city voted on Tuesday to increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, in what is perhaps the most significant victory so far in the national push to raise the minimum wage. The increase …..
2015/05/19 – Several scholars agree that a federal holiday would sanitize the legacy of a leader who fought fearlessly against state-sanctioned violence, imperialism and white supremacy. There has been no federal holiday designated to honor Malcolm X, and on Tuesday, on …..
2015/05/19 – Language used to describe African Americans vs. nonblacks is important, and it shapes the way we perceive things, oftentimes as much as, if not more than, visuals. On Sunday, in Waco, Texas, violence erupted when an altercation between members …..
2015/5/19-After my stories last week on the 30th anniversary of the MOVE siege in West Philadelphia in 1985, in which Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a residential neighborhood, leaving 11 dead — including five children — we were surprised by how …..
