Showing posts with label George Floyd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Floyd. Show all posts
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Black Lives Matter protests are shaping how people understand racial inequality

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  Considered to be the largest social justice movement since the civil rights era of the 1960s, Black Lives Matter is more than the scores...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

What Americans hear about social justice at church – and what they do about it

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  On June 5, 2020, it had been just over a week since a white Minnesota police officer, Derek Chauvin, killed George Floyd, an unarmed, Afr...
Saturday, December 4, 2021

The concrete effects of body cameras on police accountability

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  Without video evidence, it’s unlikely we would have ever heard of George Floyd or witnessed the prosecution of his killer, a Minneapolis ...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

A year after George Floyd’s murder, nation reckons with history of racism, police brutality

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  He died in less than nine minutes, gasping for air before lying motionless on the concrete without a pulse.   People across the country, e...
Monday, May 17, 2021

Police academies dedicate 3.21% of training hours to ethics and other public service topics – new research

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  Police academies provide little training in the kinds of skills necessary to meet officers’ growing public service role, according to my r...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Despite one good verdict in the murder of George Floyd, the Black community still ‘can’t breathe’ as police killings continue

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  Nearly a week before the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd by placing...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

Racial bias in U.S. policing is a national security threat

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  The events of Jan. 6, 2021 made unmistakably clear that racial bias is a national security threat.   The events of 2020 – George Floyd’s e...
Friday, November 20, 2020

‘A New Dawn’: How four young Black activists powered a movement to remove Confederate emblem from Mississippi flag

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  On the day of the demonstration, Jarrius Adams stood in front of the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion in Jackson, where the state flag beari...
Saturday, September 19, 2020

Bridging America’s divides requires a willingness to work together without becoming friends first

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  Amid two crises – the pandemic and the national reckoning sparked by the killing of George Floyd – there have been anguished calls for Ame...
Thursday, September 3, 2020

It’s time to stop the deadly rhetoric and the dangerous dodge of "both-siderism"

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  The fatal shooting of a man reported to be affiliated with the far-right group Patriot Prayer last Saturday night on the streets of Port...
Sunday, August 2, 2020

Black Lives Matter meets the moment

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  After a neighborhood watch captain killed unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, 2012, I spent hours watching the media covera...
Saturday, August 1, 2020

Empire kidnapping on American streets

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  Lest any observer refuse at this late date to acknowledge that the full weight of the police state is pressed on the American citizenry’s ...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Black deaths matter: The centuries-old struggle to memorialize slaves and victims of racism

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  In an open lot just a block or so from where George Floyd was killed while being detained by officers, 100 plastic headstones were careful...
Friday, June 19, 2020

Police reform must bring about meaningful accountability

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  The killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by four Minneapolis Police Department officers has raised the consciousness of the United States...
Monday, June 8, 2020

Militarization has fostered a policing culture that sets up protesters as ‘the enemy’

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  The unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd after being pinned to the ground by the knee of a Minneapolis police officer has left par...
Friday, June 5, 2020

A justification for unrest? Look no further than the Bible and the Founding Fathers

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  The civil unrest seen across the United States following the killing of George Floyd brings to the fore the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ...
Thursday, June 4, 2020

Authoritarian state or inclusive democracy? 21 things we can do right now

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  I understand the rage. I was in 4th grade the first time I was chased by police. My best friend got caught; I did not. His life ended up v...
Monday, June 1, 2020

Trump tweets, 'When the looting starts, the shooting starts', extremists will respond

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  Amid mounting protests against the death of George Floyd and other unarmed black Americans, President Trump took to Twitter early May 29, ...