Police violence against Black citizens is written into the script of American culture.
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The verdict of a court is not the final verdict of a society.
When they are, the result can be deadly.
Jesus, too, encountered a naked man living with mental torment. He responded quite differently.
Who keeps us safe? the crowd cried out. We keep us safe!
Are the police meant to protect people? Or to fight them?
It’s getting harder to believe in the vindication of history.
When we see a white police officer kneeling on a black body, squeezing the breath of life out of that body, we are witnessing an act of worship.
Call their names. Tell their stories. Confess our role.
The ghosts and the not-yet-dead
Jesmyn Ward’s novel is a descent into hell on earth. I couldn't put it down.
Impunity for Joe Arpaio makes good policing harder. So does access to military gear.
Kathryn Bigelow's film lays bare our assumptions about guilt and race.
Michael Eric Dyson takes white America to church
Dyson’s sermon on racism is inspiring, but will it speak to those who need to hear it most?
Every win in our organization's history has come when a diverse group of Baltimoreans got out of their lanes and worked together.
We are confronting a reality that for some of us was just an abstraction: black and white communities perceive the police differently and are treated differently by them.