racial profiling

I always believed that police used lethal violence to control citizens only as a last resort. Now it’s clear that they are jumping to it without fear — and without repercussion for their actions.
Do I believe all law enforcement acts this way? Of course not. But why do we so often see departments rally around and protect the bad apples?

Black women are insisting that our stories, too, become part of the national conversation around policing and safety.

Black women are insisting that our stories, too, become part of the national conversation around policing and safety.

Ferguson is a feminist issue—for all of us.

When a pregnant woman is thrown down and sat on, it's time to question how far police brutality has gone.

What we’re seeing is a country—our own little U.S. of A—grappling with a lengthy and sordid history of racism, questions of civil liberties, and myriad lives senselessly taken.