What happens in the U.S. when you make a mistake about which house to go to? If you are Black, it can mean being shot without warning or cause. This is what happened to Ralph Yarl on April 13th in Kansas City. Yarl is 16 years old. On April 13, he went to pick up his...
Across the Patapsco River from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor tourist district lie the former neighborhoods of Fairfield and Wagner’s Point. Throughout the 20th century, these tight-knit immigrant and Black communities were a target for the development of chemical and...
The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, is “working as swiftly as Texas law allows” to have Daniel Perry pardoned. Perry was recently convicted of the murder of a Black Lives Matter protester during the mass protests in 2020. Abbott took up the crusade to push for a...
On March 20th, Biden signed into law a bill passed by Congress, including most Republicans and some Democrats, that overturned a new Washington, D.C. ordinance reforming D.C.’s criminal justice system. The law – which was passed by the majority of D.C. city...
Last month, the Biden administration put forward a new border policy designed to replace an expiring Trump-era order. But they are practically the same policies. The new law denies asylum to undocumented people who enter the U.S. Those who don’t fit the narrow...
