Tag: George Floyd
Hip-hop is the soundtrack to Black Lives Matter protests, continuing a...
Tyina Steptoe, University of Arizona
The sound of Public Enemy’s 1989 song “Fight the Power” blared as face-masked protesters in Washington, D.C. broke into a...
Smartphone witnessing becomes synonymous with Black patriotism after George Floyd’s death
Allissa V. Richardson, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
A flashbulb emits a high-pitched hum. A photograph of the legendary 19th-century...
No justice, no peace: Why Catholic priests are kneeling with George...
Anna L. Peterson, University of Florida
Two days after the Catholic bishop of El Paso, Mark Seitz, knelt with a dozen other priests in a...
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...
Uprisings after pandemics have happened before – just look at the...
Susan Wade, Keene State College
As a professor of medieval Europe, I’ve taught the bubonic plague, and how it contributed to the English Peasant Revolt...
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...
How to protest during a pandemic and still keep everyone safe...
Thomas A. Russo, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
“WE ARE STILL IN A PANDEMIC,” Denver Black Lives Matter activist Tay Anderson...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
