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- 1From:Journal of African American Studies (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn this article, the authors make a distinction between urban uprisings of earlier eras and the upheaval that has unfolded in the streets of America since the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd by police officers...
- 2From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 66, Issue 34)THERE WAS A TIME when stripping a racist's name from a building would be celebrated as a breakthrough for racial justice in higher education. Today, it's accepted as a starting point. As the Covid-19 pandemic and...
- 3From:Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Vol. 111, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedGovernment surveillance is ubiquitous in the United States and can range from the seemingly innocuous to intensely intrusive. Recently, the surveillance of protestors--such as those protesting against George Floyd's...
- 4From:Criminal Justice (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the wake of the death of George Floyd in 2020, it is estimated that protests occurred in over 2,000 cities in 60 countries worldwide and that between 15 and 26 million people protested in the United States alone. Two...
- 5From:Kola (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAngels, golden as dragonflies, dart away, forsake us to our homes. Raw as a new wound, our voices fail. "Stay," whispered too late. Desire drips like sweat on freshly tilled earth. Dreams of tomatoes, plundered by...
- 6From:Criminal Justice (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe killing of George Floyd by police was a tragic and disturbing event that is a call to action for those in the criminal justice system. As protests and outrage have surfaced in almost every corner of our nation and...
- 7From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 89, Issue 4)We didn't know anything about a chokehold or hands to the neck until the video came out," said a former senior police official with direct knowledge of the investigation.... We found out when everyone else did. New...
- 8From:St. Thomas Law Review (Vol. 25, Issue 2)I. INTRODUCTION Imagine driving to the store with friends, but while en route, you are shot and beaten by the police so severely that random citizen witnesses intervene to stop the police brutality. (1) Next,...
- 9From:Harvard Review (Issue 55)he thinks the boy's cell phone is a gun he thinks the boy's water bottle is a gun he thinks the cell phone is a gun and he believes in the universal right to happiness he thinks he can yank the cancer out of the city...
- 10From:Ethnic Studies Review (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a content analysis of coverage by the Seattle Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Seattle Star (mainstream papers), and the Northwest Enterprise (NWE, a Black press weekly newspaper) of the 1938 Berry...
- 11From:International Social Science Review (Vol. 85, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction For many Americans, the 1960s began with tremendous promise as Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) was elected to serve as the thirty-fifth president of the United States. Those Americans, especially among...
- 12From:Policy Studies Journal (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMacrolevel studies of police killings generally focus on testing the conflict and community violence hypotheses. This research generally supports both the conflict proposition that minority threat is related to police...
- 13From:The Western Journal of Black Studies (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedU.S. society continues to experience inequities, stratification, and segregation within its educational and social systems. This work explores these injustices by employing the Christian based theory, The Matthew...
- 14From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedON MARCH 10, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES Union executive director Anthony Romero issued an open letter to the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice on the question of police brutality in Puerto Rico. In...
- 15From:Appalachian Review (Vol. 48, Issue 2)"When the looting starts, the shooting starts." --president DJ Trump The oppressors' private property is always more important to the privileged. That power is what police protect. Backed by a national guard fronting...
- 16From:Biography (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSTAND BY ON SET The aim of this photo essay, through simulated director cues, is to question viewers' intent in the consumption of videos that make a spectacle of the violence perpetrated on Black bodies. In the vein...
- 17From:GP Solo (Vol. 37, Issue 4)Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. If you have been a...
- 18From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE PUERTO RICO POLICE DEPARTMENT IS "BRO-ken in a number of critical and fundamental respects," according to a report released in September by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of justice. (1) The...
- 19From:African American Review (Vol. 50, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn July 17, 2014, Eric Garner, a forty-three-year-old African American man, was killed by police officers attempting to arrest him for the "crime" of selling untaxed single cigarettes. Garner died after being placed in a...
- 20From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 16, Issue 2)chalk line coordinates prophesied from anonymous data black as space where comet tails flash the sky before we can blink reflections in a night of revolving doors the science of statistics stands with a gun and club...