Forty years of data suggests atrocities are on the rise globally.
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The 1984 shooting death of a Black grandmother in her Bronx apartment sparked an ongoing movement against police brutality and neglect of the mentally ill.
Kenyan regimes have long adopted brutal policing approaches to sustain themselves in power.
After protests over state violence, news coverage tends to focus on negative stories that can delegitimize dissent. Over time, that often yields to more nuance.
One person said: ‘I had to report at the police station where he works, where everybody knows everybody’.
A digital archive highlights the use of art in protest against police brutality, racism and the ongoing impact of colonization.
A landmark study of police-LGBTQ relations finds that 21% of respondents have been stopped by police in the past year, and 53% of Black trans respondents have been the victims of police brutality.
With every new incident of racial violence, Black people tend to undergo a collective sense of racial grief.
A white Philadelphia police officer was killed during a 1978 confrontation with the radical group MOVE. Often overlooked was the brutality leveled against the group’s spokesman.
Why are Republicans talking about Kamala Harris’ laugh? It’s the latest stage in a long history of marginalizing Black women.
For host cities football fans are simultaneously potential consumers and criminals. But they have rights, and fan zones are a good way of protecting fans, the public and the streets.
Kenya’s political regimes have used the police to repress opposition and sustain themselves in power.
Kenya’s police have a long history of using excessive force.
Canadian universities’ requests for court orders and police enforcement to clear Palestine solidarity encampments raise questions about the legal status of encampments and the use of injunctions.
Student protests on campuses are calling attention to atrocities in Gaza and challenging university administrators to divest. What is the best way forward that avoids unnecessary violence?
The death of O.J. Simpson rekindled memories of the racial divisions of his domestic violence case involving the murder of his former wife and her friend.
On the issue of working-class neighbourhoods, as on others, Emmanuel Macron has failed to find the path to a common project.
Efforts have been made to improve housing in working-class neighbourhoods, yet the social and cultural mix has deteriorated. What remains is a face-off between young people and the police.
Glasgow welcomes the world’s most famous graffiti artist, drawn to the city by the much-loved ‘Coneheid’ Duke of Wellington statue outside his exhibition.
When a person with dementia is in distress, they need calm and caring treatment to protect themselves and others – but prevention should be the goal.
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