Police kill about 3 men per day in the US, according to new study
Police in the U.S. kill on average more than 1,000 men per year, or about three men per day. According to our estimates, police are responsible for about 8 percent of all adult male homicide deaths in the U.S. each year. These estimates come from our study, published on July 19. We relied on novel unofficial […]
James Jackson charged with murdering Timothy Caughman
A white supremacist who stabbed a 66-year-old black man to death with a sword in New York has been charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime. James Harris Jackson, who killed Timothy Caughman on Monday, was charged on Thursday after he told police that he had hated black men for at least 10 years.…
Outcry over Trump attack on civil rights icon John Lewis
American civil rights activists have begun a week of protests ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president next Friday. In Washington an estimated 2,000 mostly black demonstrators marched in driving rain on Saturday near the capital’s Martin Luther King memorial. Their aim: to fight to defend hard-fought gains in voting rights and criminal justice […]
It’s not just about a pipeline. Native activists say Dakota battle is their biggest stand in decades.
It started last April with two people from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota praying in a teepee for others to come and help fight an oil pipeline they believed would threaten their land and water. And come they did — climate activists, social justice groups, Black Lives Matter, Native people from around […]
America’s favorite ice cream company has taken a stand on police injustice
Ever since Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem before a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers to take a stand against police brutality, Americans across the country have followed suit by protesting in their own way or taking a public stand in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. This week, […]