The following is a Truthout interview with Kristian Williams, Author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America. MARK KARLIN:Your book, Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America, is nearly six hundred pages, thoroughly documented and cogent. Let's [...]
How America’s Colleges Could Be Tuition Free
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:11-05:00Source: CollegeRank.net Tuition Free College When we decide to have children, we set ourselves up for a long-term financial commitment, whether we do so willingly or not. According to data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in August 2014, in their [...]
Marrow Weary—How Deeply Rooted Racism is in the Fight For Equal Education
Adourthus Mc Dowell2016-11-29T17:39:11-05:00A one minute review of the recent events unfolding, as it seems that’s all the time we have left. As of August 30t, 2015, I will no longer be a Local School Council Facilitator, as my medium, and long term goals conflict with this [...]
Rachel. Trayvon. Michael. Dying. Laughing. A. Fiction
Kiese Laymon2016-11-29T17:39:11-05:00“I hear what your cousin Big Mike said,” Rachel tells Trayvon, “and you know I like Big Mike, but I’m saying how come it’s so hard for black boys to love black girls then it’s so easy for y’all to lean all up on us when [...]
“I’m Now As Poor as I was Before” — Prison-Created Poverty
Amme Voz2016-11-29T17:39:11-05:00No one likes to talk about the fact that “doing time” leaves the majority of returning citizens worse off than before they were incarcerated. Prior to my imprisonment, I had a very successful consulting business and I lived a solidly middle-class life. I worked hard, I [...]
Deadly American Extremism: More White Than Muslim— The Numbers
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:12-05:00Everyday, somewhere in America people wait in long lines only to be patted down, or body scanned. We open our suitcases, empty our pockets, and place our computers, belts, and purses on a conveyor band. Instinctively American citizens and visitors respond on demand. We travel [...]
What If We Treated All Consent Like Society Treats Sexual Consent?
Alli Kirkham2016-11-29T17:39:12-05:00You are staying until it’s done You said I could have it once You said you liked it You said you wanted it You are my wife and it’s your duty You owe me You are asking for it [...]
What Happens to a Society When It Turns Against Many of Its Children and Imprisons Them?
Nell Bernstein2016-11-29T17:39:12-05:00Darren was kneeling, but he was not praying. Baptized Catholic and brought up in the church, Darren had turned to his faith to get him through the early years of a decade-long confinement, including months spent on isolation units. Now he [...]
All Lives Matter*
Keith Knight2016-11-29T17:39:12-05:00Keith Knight is many things to many people–rapper, social activist, father and educator among them. He’s also one of the funniest and most highly regarded cartoonists in America, and the creator of three popular comic strips: the Knight Life, (th)ink, and the K Chronicles. For [...]