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THE CLEANSING OF GARIWERD The Point went to Gariwerd to look at the rise of white supremacist and extremist groups operating in Australia. On the January 26 long weekend this year, the area - the Grampians in regional Victoria — was invaded by masked white supremacists. Gunaikurnai man Troy McDonald told the program: “In this vicinity, 30 of those white supremacists came and started their hateful chants. It was a really tough thing for a lot of us to see that, when it was reported. Because if you are coming here, this is not a hateful environment. People don't come here generally on a hol...

In the wake of former Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin being found guilty of the murder of George Floyd, four campus professors discussed the verdict’s impact and how policing should change to better support communities of color during a virtual Berkeley Conversations event Tuesday. Titled “Thinking About Race, Racism, and Policing After the Chauvin Verdict,” the event was introduced by Raka Ray, UC Berkeley’s dean of the Division of Social Sciences, and moderated by Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. Mike Williams, a campus administrator and ...

'Governing Through Crime' March 16, 2010 •  Rehearsing again the grim statistics of American crime and punishment is depressing. The Pew Center on the States reminds us that one in every hundred American is behind bars, a rate of incarceration far greater than in other developed countries. Incarceration is notably skewed along racial lines -- one in nine black men aged 20 to 34 is serving time, as is one in 36 adult Hispanic men. Recent reports by the Sentencing Project and Human Rights Watch show that, despite roughly equal rates of illegal drug use b...

USA TODAY WASHINGTON – Since taking office, President Joe Biden has signed 40 executive orders addressing issues spanning the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to international affairs, labor and voting rights and the environment. While many of the orders either reversed the actions of former President Donald Trump, or made administrative changes he'd promised on the campaign trail, others have had more consequential impacts.  Many orders signed in his first hours as president overturned the previous administration. With those, he: Prohibited workplace discrimination in the federal government...

Did California Congresswoman Maxine Waters Tamper With The Jury In Derek Chauvin’s Trial? Friday, April 23, 2021 | Sacramento, CA Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., talks on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, as she waits for the verdict to be read in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite If your time is short: An image shared more than 4,700 times on Facebook claimed that U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, could be “sentenced”...