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

by Rana Irby — Much discussion on the U.S. military’s presence abroad in recent years has focused on the Middle East. What seems to not...

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...

Editor’s note: On Tuesday, March 16, 2021, eight people were killed by 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long at three massage parlors in the...

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

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 Rana Irby — As we in the U.S. celebrate the contributions of Black people in our country for Black History Month this February, it is...

by Julia Smucker — The abortion industry has often denied its historic ties to the eugenics movement, but many Black leaders have been...

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

by Katherine Noble — Our nation spent the better part of this summer in upheaval. Protests became a daily part of life as people took to...

by Reynaldo Guevara — Something I realized in adulthood: in school, they taught us racism in history class. I grew up assuming it had...

by Mikhayla Stover — Her name was Mariee Juárez. Mariee and her mother Yazmin were forced to flee Guatemala in 2018. At the time, Mariee...

by Vanesa Zuleta Goldberg — Yesterday we witnessed a domestic terrorist attack on our nation's capital. A mob of Trump supporters...

by Christy Yao — An essential part of our democracy is the people getting to vote on particularly important or controversial issues. This...

In the wake of George Floyd's murder, protests and outrage swept the nation.

by Liz P. — Marquis Jaylen “JB” Brown was a star student-athlete at Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit, a Catholic university in...

by Herb Geraghty — Earlier this month Michael Hickson, a disabled black man, was killed in a Texas hospital when his doctors decided that...

There have been a lot of videos and comments on social media lately offering varying opinions on subjects like racism, police brutality...