police brutality
New Yorkers debate ending “stop and frisk”
June 28, 2012On June 24, the New York Friends of the People's World hosted a forum on ending "stop and frisk."
Read moreNew Yorkers protest “stop and frisk”
June 18, 2012Some 300 organizations joined together in a show of solidarity over the New York Police Department's "stop and frisk" policy.
Read more600 percent increase in racial stop-and-frisk policing in NY
February 17, 2012Over 684.000 people were subjected to the New York Police Department's aggressive tactics in 2011, a 14 percent increase over the previous year.
Read morePolice torture victims continue to seek justice, freedom
August 12, 2011Mayor Richard M. Daley can be sued as a defendant in a lawsuit filed over decades-old allegations of police torture and a citywide conspiracy to cover it up.
Read moreMississippi is still burning, vicious murder shows
August 10, 2011This crime, tragic and vile as it is, seems to only be the latest example of long-standing racism that appears to permeate Mississippi to the core.
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