As mass demonstrations against police brutality continue across the country, thousands gather in New York to demonstrate against generations of police brutality and racial injustice in America.
Black women have been telling the truth about America for a long time. As a Black woman in journalism, my obligation is no less than that.
Anytime the racial temperature goes up and hell pays a visit to earth, the disappointment takes a holiday. And you fight. You fight because you’re tired. Yet you’re tired because you’ve been fighting. For so long. In waves, in loops, in vacuums, in vain.
Wesley Lowery is a correspondent for “60 in 6” from 60 Minutes. He is the author of They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement and won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for "Fatal Force," a Washington Post project covering fatal shootings by police officers.
“The police are not, in and of themselves, objective observers of things. They are political and government entities who are the literal characters in the story. They are describing the actions of people who are protesting them. They have incentives.”
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Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich has an increasingly prominent role. He still has ties to his family’s investment firm, which is a major beneficiary of the Treasury’s bailout actions.
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles?
Open source materials suggest that, for now, the apocalyptic, anti-government politics of the “Boogaloo Bois” are not monolithically racist/neo-Nazi. As we have observed, some members rail against police shootings of African Americans, and praise black nationalist self defense groups.
But the materials also demonstrate that however irony-drenched it may appear to be, this is a movement actively preparing for armed confrontation with law enforcement, and anyone else who would restrict their expansive understanding of the right to bear arms. In a divided, destabilized post-coronavirus landscape, they could well contribute to widespread violence in the streets of American cities.
As someone who’s knocked on countless doors with nothing but a hunch and a prayer, I believe all doomed reporting missions should be seen through to their end. Besides, Zelonka’s pluck was entertaining, and I’d come all this way, so we went, two guys in masks, one zapped on Monster Energy and the other on Starbucks double espresso, roaming an empty office park in Rancho Cucamonga as the world was falling apart.
A discussion of the “limited but important” power of Occupy Wall Street’s open blog, “We Are the 99%.”
William Barr’s state of emergency.
The supply chains of the cocaine industry did not falter even during a worldwide shutdown.
On the intersection of technology and revolt.
How the the rush to direct-selling platforms like OnlyFans could change the adult industry forever.
An oral history of the day oil prices went below zero for the first time in trading history.
“Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”
An interview with the author.
Leo Rodgers is the irrepressible gravel-racing hero we all need now.
When Nikki Addimando shot her abusive partner, she thought she had enough proof it was self-defense. Why did the prosecution only see a cold-blooded killer?
Our economy is built on Americans of all class levels buying things. What happens when the ability—and desire—to do so goes away?
Growing up indigenous in Detroit.
But for heaven’s sake, the best-selling author, unapologetic cusser, and fifth-generation Texan would rather not be called that.
Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later.
Philip Montgomery is a photojournalist.
“The photographers that I grew up on all sort of had their moment… I sort of had, in this weird way, this feeling of envy that they had their moment with this story that was all-encompassing. Looking at it now, this is the story of my time, and it’s a little more than I perhaps bargained for.”
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A cri de cœur on AIDS: “If we don’t act immediately, then we face our approaching doom.”
A profile of the actor in the wake of the loss of his wife.
