by October Gallery
For the third day in a row, hundreds of protesters continue to call for justice over 17-year-old Antwon Rose Jr.’s killing by an East Pittsburgh police officer. The protesters traveled…
On Tuesday, more than 8000 Starbucks stores in the US closed for the afternoon as employees were put through training. For four hours, employees nationwide … source
The concept of there being “two Americas” is almost as old as the nation itself. From the outset there were the landowners, the ruling class – the “haves”. source
Visit the Humanities Futures website for more info: http://humanitiesfutures.org The Black Outdoors: Humanities Futures after Property and Possession seeks to interrogate the relation between race, sexuality, and juridical and theological…
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson is defending officers who were caught on camera handcuffing and detaining a 10-year-old boy during a search for a teen suspect. “They followed all of…
On June 6, 2015, Kalief Browder’s brother was at his home in the Bronx, New York, when he received a frantic call from his mother. Kalief had just died by…
These are just a few of the everyday activities that black people in America do not have the luxury of doing without being perceived as a criminal, recent headlines prove.…
The death of a black man in police custody in Louisiana has been ruled a homicide by asphyxiation, a coroner said Monday. Keeven Robinson, 22, died Thursday at a Jefferson…
Photographer and ICP School alum Gareth Smit discusses his work documenting the family of Eric Garner, an African-American man who was killed in 2014 at the hands of the NYPD.…
A Yale dean said the Ivy League university needs to work at becoming “truly inclusive” after a white student called police on a black classmate who had fallen asleep in…