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Why they’re not saying Ma’Khia Bryant’s name Vox.com 3 hrs ago Fabiola Cineas © Scott Olson/Getty Images A funeral service is held for 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant at the First Church of God on April 30, 2021 in Columbus, Ohio. Bryant was shot and killed on April 20 by a Columbus police officer answering a domestic dispute call. After watching 15 seconds of police body camera footage last week, viewers of various races and political affiliations had made a decision: 1...

Breonna Taylor and hundreds of Black women have died at the hands of police. The movement to say their names is growing. Donna M. Owens © Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY Kimberlé Crenshaw, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum wears a hoodie with the names of Black daughters, sisters, wives, cousins, and community members killed by police. No one sets out to be a Black Lives Matter martyr. But somewhere along the way last year, as masked marchers...

More than 20 major cities have reduced their police budgets in some form, an unprecedented trend, though the scale and circumstances vary dramatically. The activists who have long campaigned to take money from US police are now fighting to ensure that the initial cuts are only the start – and that a growing backlash from law enforcement, elected officials and some community groups does not derail their progress. A ‘paradigm shift’: $870m cut from police For years, local advocacy groups h...

‘It’s Unenforceable.’ The Holidays Make it Tougher to Police COVID-19 Restrictions Time 12/21/2020 Melissa Chan © Jay Clendenin—Los Angeles Times/Getty Images A sign tells visitors to the pier in Manhattan Beach, Calif., on Dec. 3, 2020 to wear a mask or face a $350 fine. San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore has been cracking down on COVID-19 rule breakers for weeks. When coronavirus cases in California began surging again in November, Gore launched a team of deputies...

Please join us on Human Rights Day for “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color,” a special event featuring Andrea J. Ritchie. Ritchie is a writer, lawyer, and activist for women of color, especially LGBTQ women of color, who have been victims of police violence. Ritchie’s talk will center the experiences of Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color, in the context of the twin epidemics of police brutality and mass incarceration, to demand a radic...