Dec 09 Photo gallery: 150 arrested in Berkeley protests over police brutality By Adelyn Baxter Weekend protests in Berkeley, California, responding to recent grand jury decisions concerning the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner -- two unarmed black men who died after confrontations with white police officers -- spilled over into Monday night,… Continue reading
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Dec 08 Why are you protesting? Tell PBS NewsHour By Colleen Shalby To try to capture the reasons and commentary behind the protests pertaining to Eric Garner and Michael Brown, we want to hear directly from protesters across the country. Continue reading
Dec 08 White House issues guidelines to ban racial and religious profiling By Eric Tucker, Associated Press The policy, which expands decade-old guidelines established under the Bush administration, also will require new training and data collection. Continue reading
Dec 08 Not the way women wanted to make history this election By Domenico Montanaro, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe Yes, there’s a recount in an Arizona House race ongoing, but for pretty much all intents and purposes, the runoff election in the Louisiana Senate race Saturday put the final nail in the 2014 midterm elections. Continue reading
Dec 05 Helping kids understand their rights when they’re stopped by the police By Amber Joseph How do we help students not lose hope?… Continue reading
Dec 05 From shattered glass to blank canvas, Missouri communities paint to heal By Corinne Segal Today if you walk down S. Grand Boulevard, one of the main thoroughfares in St. Louis, you are likely to find boarded-up windows in the aftermath of protests and ensuing riots from the Michael Brown grand jury ruling. What would… Continue reading
Dec 05 My Kingdom for a Magic Wand By Gwen Ifill I sympathize with your confusion. If cameras pinned to officers’ lapels are the solution, then why didn’t a video of a man being choked to death sway a New York grand jury? If a government shutdown was such a costly… Continue reading