Staff / TruthdigAug 9, 2013
This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Nato Green, Ninotchka Rosca, Phil Yu, Leilani Albano, Laura Carlsen, Bill Boyarsky, and Robert Scheer on racism three ways, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bradley Manning and Obama's change of heart. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 9, 2013
This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Nato Green, Ninotchka Rosca, Phil Yu, Leilani Albano, Laura Carlsen, Bill Boyarsky, and Robert Scheer on racism three ways, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bradley Manning and Obama's change of heart. Dig deeper
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Bill Boyarsky / TruthdigJul 31, 2013
Twenty-three years after an L.A. sheriff's deputy shot and killed a quiet, much-loved veteran, too many people still can’t move beyond their stereotypical view of race. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
By Meleiza FigueroaJul 21, 2013
Read along as I list the abundance of “little things” that made the killing of Trayvon Martin, and that of innumerable young men like him, both possible and defensible in a court of law They are the daily corrosions through which the micro-degradations of racism and white supremacy eat away at our lives. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 7, 2010
More than 150 people were arrested Friday night as angry protesters marched through the Lake Merritt area of Oakland following the sentencing of a former BART police officer in the killing of a young black man on a transit platform in 2009. The protest was touched off by what was viewed as the lightness of the sentence, two years in prison. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 9, 2010
The Los Angeles jury hearing the case of the BART cop who killed an unarmed Oakland man on New Year's Day 2009 went with the least serious of three possible charges, convicting the former officer of involuntary manslaughter. He faces two to four years in prison. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 27, 2010
Oscar Grant was killed on New Year's Day 2009 in Oakland by a white transit police officer in a case that has drawn comparisons to the notorious Rodney King case in Los Angeles. The trial of the BART officer on a murder charge was moved to L.A., where the jury could start deliberations this week. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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