Breaking Out: The policing system is inherently biased, and fails Black and brown communities
Policing disproportionately affects Black and brown communities with fatal force.
Tag Archive for: police-brutality
DPS Community Advisory Board will launch a series of 10 forums to re-evaluate campus public safety
The board, established last year in response to Black students and activists speaking up about unfair treatment from the USC Department of Public Safety, will hold sessions with students, faculty, staff and neighbors through Feb. 20.
She Begat This: Manufacturing martyrdom: Calling victims of police violence martyrs is problematic
Unless we call these modern-day lynchings what they are, denoting the history of racial oppression that accompanies that moniker, we cannot begin to dismantle the system of state violence that perpetuates Black death.
We need to rethink calling the cops
Recent events have shown that getting the police involved is a death sentence for many people of color.