Tag: Black Lives Matter
Police unions are one of the biggest obstacles to transforming policing
Jill McCorkel, Villanova University
Protesters and community organizers are increasingly calling for defunding and disbanding the police as a way to end police violence.
Advocates argue...
High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, American University
Video of police in riot gear clashing with unarmed protesters in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by...
What colleges and universities can do to improve police-community relations
Brian N. Williams, University of Virginia
In the wake of the death of George Floyd – and the protests that it has sparked around the...
The good-guy image police present to students often clashes with students’...
F. Chris Curran, University of Florida; Aaron Kupchik, University of Delaware, and Benjamin W. Fisher, University of Louisville
Eight days after George Floyd was killed...
Brands backing Black Lives Matter: it might be a marketing ploy,...
Bree Hurst, Queensland University of Technology
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant...
Riot or resistance? How media frames unrest in Minneapolis will shape...
Danielle K. Kilgo, Indiana University
A teenager held her phone steady enough
to capture the final moments of George Perry Floyd’s life as he apparently suffocated...
Why ‘woke’ NBA is struggling to balance its values with Chinese...
Mary-Hunter McDonnell, University of Pennsylvania
It’s not easy being a for-profit organization these days.
Take the National Basketball Association. It found itself in a tricky situation...
Want to reform America’s police? Look to firefighters
Roscoe Scarborough, College of Coastal Georgia
Freddie Gray. Eric Garner. Michael Brown.
The deaths of black youth and men at the hands of police have sparked...
EXPLORING NATURE
How pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple –...
Shelley Mitchell, Oklahoma State University
Pecans, America’s only native major nut, have a storied history in the United States....
