As the Black Lives Matter movement has , statues of figures linked to slavery have been removed. Such actions are just symbolic, however. What is at stake is the systemic transformation of the present.
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A scholar of visual culture sees a transition happening online as the alt-right reinterprets images of police shootings to push back against the gains made by Black Lives Matter.
No federal database provides reliable info on deaths that occur in police custody. It’s the same situation in 48 states. But now California and Texas are offering new models of accountability.
The Baltimore Police Department is found to have violated the civil rights of poor blacks. A historian explains why those findings are eerily similar to how the city treated blacks in the 1800s.
Police in Lowell, Massachusetts and Memphis, Tennessee are using a new approach designed to help them build trust while enforcing the law.
Do academics need to change the way they teach race? What is the impact of students having been socialized to believe that “race doesn’t matter”?
Freddie Gray had high levels of lead as a child, one of the environmental injustices suffered by poor and minority groups.
Provocative, violent and discriminatory policing has sparked riots in both the UK and America.
Racial segregation and poisonous living conditions played a large part in determining the young man’s fate.
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Postdoctoral Fellow at Institute of Urban Policy Research and Analysis, The University of Texas at Austin
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Research Fellow, The University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
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Director, Center for Applied Insight Conflict Resolution; Adjuct Faculty at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, George Mason University
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Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Birmingham-Southern College
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Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in American Studies, Sustainability, and EcoJustice, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Assistant professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Directrice de recherche au CNRS, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations Sciences Po Paris, Sciences Po
