Why Focusing on People of Color Will Help the Movement for Gun Control Succeed

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Mar 29, 2018 Discussions of gun violence and the regulations needed to curb it are incomplete unless they include an analysis of how racism plays a role. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Officers Won’t Be Charged in Alton Sterling Shooting

MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE / The Associated Press Mar 27, 2018 Louisiana's attorney general rules out criminal charges against two Baton Rouge police officers in the death of a black man during a struggle outside a convenience store in 2016. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Standing Firm in the Face of Violence

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Sep 22, 2016 With police killings of unarmed black men almost a weekly occurrence in the U.S., we must not let our trauma weaken our resolve to insist on—and organize for—racial justice. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Cornel West: Obama ‘Has No Backbone to Fight for Justice’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 16, 2016 In an opinion piece published by The Guardian, the scholar and activist explains how the president has failed to confront systemic racism and how this legacy will haunt the country. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Barack Obama Helped Us Peer Into the Racial Divide

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Jul 16, 2016 It may take years to fully appreciate how dramatically this presidency has bent the arc of history toward justice. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Amazing Nonbinary Brain (Video)

Mark Fiore / Truthdig Jul 14, 2016 Support for Black Lives Matter does not equal support for killing police officers, obviously. Dig deeper

Videotaping a Crime Is Not a Crime

Staff / Truthdig Jul 14, 2016 Citizens who provide video evidence of police brutality are doing a public service. Police harassment of those citizens has to stop. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Police Arrest Man Who Posted Video of Alton Sterling’s Death

Staff / Truthdig Jul 13, 2016 Chris LeDay, who posted the video of the Louisiana man’s death at the hands of police officers, was arrested on what he says were fabricated charges 24 hours after the video went viral. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Claudia Rankine: Because White Men Can’t Police Their Imaginations, Black Men Are Dying (Video)

Staff / Truthdig Jul 12, 2016 In an NPR interview, the poet discusses race in America and reads a poem she wrote in the aftermath of the deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, who were shot and killed by police officers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Legalized Murder and the Politics of Terror

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jul 11, 2016 The police kill citizens with impunity, and that is exactly how the system is designed to work. The numerous little police states that exist in poor urban areas across the U.S. are models for a system that would enslave all of us. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

It’s Time for Whites to Condemn White Violence, Georgetown Sociologist Says

Staff / Truthdig Jul 8, 2016 The same white Americans who demand that all Muslims account for the “evil acts of a few” fail to criticize the violence perpetrated by their white counterparts in uniform, Michael Eric Dyson wrote in The New York Times. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Justice Department Opens Investigation Into Police Killing of Alton Sterling

Staff / Truthdig Jul 7, 2016 Sterling, a 37-year-old African-American, was shot fatally when police were trying to arrest him in Baton Rouge, La Cellphone video footage shows him pinned to the ground by officers as at least one of them shot himSterling, 37, an African-American, was fatally shot while police were trying to arrest him in Baton Rouge, La. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )