by Judith Evans — In a year marked by reports of police brutality, two names stood out for mental health advocates in 2020: Daniel Prude...

by Sophie Trist — Following the brutal murder of George Floyd and subsequent racial justice protests around the globe, the United Nations...

by Sophie Trist — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Min) and Rep. David Price (D-NC) are calling on their fellow members of Congress to sign a letter to...

by Katherine Noble — Pro-choice organizations, people, and rhetoric often frame abortion as an easy solution to a complicated problem....

by Jennifer Walker — Any time some policy related to pregnancy/abortion is brought up, discussion almost immediately gets heated. This...

by Rana Irby — June 19th, or “Juneteenth,” commemorates the end of chattel slavery in the United States. For the Black American...

by Stephanie Hauer — Tear gas is used throughout the world as a form of crowd control. Hong Kong, Bahrain, and Iran deploy it against...

by Rana Irby — The fight against the death penalty in the United States has resurged since the resuming of federal executions in the last...

by Sophie Trist — Even as support for capital punishment reaches its lowest point in forty years, some states are so eager to kill their...

by Rana Irby — The death penalty has now been ruled unconstitutional in the African nation of Malawi. In a monumental decision made this...

by Sophie Trist — In April of 2017, the state of Arkansas likely executed an innocent man. Recently-tested evidence from the 1993 murder...

by Julia Smucker — In 1998, the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) released an extensive report demonstrating “the infectious...

by Katherine Noble — Daunte Wright was shot and killed on Sunday, April 11th, by a Minnesota police officer. Wright was a father of a...

by Sophie Trist — Garrett Bradley’s 81-minute documentary Time, available on Amazon Prime, tells the story of New Orleans prison...

by Sophie Trist — Six months ago, George Floyd’s brutal murder at the hands of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin ripped open old...

by Katherine Noble — President Joe Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki has said it is the intention of the Biden administration to close...

by Christy Yao — Editor's note: citations for the statistics referenced in this article can be found in the documentary 13th. — 13th is a...

by Sophie Trist — From anti-slavery abolitionism to today, Black activists have played a central role in the fight to end capital...

by Sophie Trist — Many people are familiar with the tragic story of Kalief Browder, a Black teenager from New York City who was arrested...

by Katherine Noble — Though the Biden-Harris administration has now taken on the task of running the American government, our country...