“A truly stunning level of tone-deafness.” by: Eoin Higgins, Ronald Scott, a central neighborhood resident for more than 10 years, takes a photo of the memorial mural over flowers and banners laid in the memory […]
“So is 57 officers resigning at once just a few bad apples?” by: Eoin Higgins, staff writer Police officers in Buffalo, New York walk by the motionless body of 75-year-old Martin Gugino as he bleeds […]
“We won’t stop fighting until justice is served.” by: Julia Conley, A demonstrator holds a sign with the image of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police Department officers, […]
by: COUNTERPUNCH EDITORS Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair What It Feels Like to be Black in America by Kevin Alexander Gray What Does Black Lives Matter Want? by Robin D.G. Kelley Black Subjugation in America by Kim Scipes […]
by T.J. COLES Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair An article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recently argued that more species are going extinct due to human activity than occurred 66 million years ago, when […]
by: LAURA FLANDERS Defund Police. Invest in Black Lives. What just weeks ago was a slogan is fast becoming law. In just the last week, the Minneapolis school board resolved to cut their contract with city police […]
by: JACOB F. LEE – MATTHEW E. STANLEY Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As people have gathered across the country to oppose police violence, including the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, they have targeted […]
by: JEFFREY ST. CLAIR “Attack and take of the Crête-à-Pierrot (Haiti)” by Auguste Raffet. (Circa, 1850) “Most police are not from and do not live in the communities they are policing. Paid, outside agitators.” – Boots […]
by: JEFFERSON MORLEY Photograph Source: Frypie – CC BY-SA 4.0 The zone of incomprehension was about a foot wide. That was the distance separating a boisterous but peaceful crowd of several hundred protesters and a silent line […]
by: PETER LINEBAUGH Albion Rose by William Blake. Benjamin Bowsey, John Glover, and the Delivery of Newgate, 6 June 1780 We might say that there were two ways of understanding broad, social phenomena including whole social systems. […]