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Life Inside December 3, 2020
Coronavirus Has Sparked Another Epidemic in My Prison: Anti-Asian Racism
The racial slurs, dumb comments and news reports of hate violence have me on edge.
By Felix Sitthivong
Justice Lab October 28, 2020
When Does Murder Make The News? It Depends On The Victim’s Race.
Mainstream media is less likely to cover Black homicide victims and less likely to portray them as complex human beings, a new study shows.
By Beth Schwartzapfel
Kunlyna Tauch at Pelican Bay State Prison in January.
Life Inside July 9, 2020
I Am Not Your “Other”
I’m a Cambodian-American from Long Beach, California. But to a prison system that limits its population categories to “Black,” “White” and “Hispanic,” I’m the race version of a misfit toy.
By Kunlyna Tauch
Life Inside June 25, 2020
How My White Privilege Protected Me In Jail
Being locked up for a crime I didn’t commit was hard. But nothing compares to the humiliation and harassment that my elderly, disabled, Black cellmate experienced.
By Michelle Hadley
Life Inside June 18, 2020
My Dad Went to Prison When I Was 5. Now I Write About Families Like Mine
Growing up with a father who was incarcerated didn’t define me. But it certainly taught me to challenge stereotypes and ask better questions.
By Sylvia A. Harvey
Johnny Lee Gates in the 1970s.
Case in Point May 6, 2018
A Murder Case Unravels
Prosecutors stacked the deck. Forty-one years later, that may be enough to free Johnny Gates.
By Andrew Cohen
Demonstrators occupy the Starbucks where two African-American men were arrested after employees said they were trespassing, in Philadelphia in April.
Commentary April 23, 2018
Fear of a Black Patron
In retail, fear of black criminality regularly shows up in policies and practices across stores and sectors.
Aaron Ross Coleman
A bus driver asks a black passenger to move to a seat in the back of the bus in Tallahassee, Fla in 1956.
Commentary April 12, 2017
Uneasy Riders
Before United, a legacy of excessive force in transportation
Robin Washington
Q&A July 15, 2016
Dallas’s Deputy Chief on Race, Despair, and Learning from Police Shootings
“My life has to matter, too.”
By Corey G. Johnson
Feature July 13, 2016
How to Fix American Policing
At a painful time, a roundup of proposed remedies
By Ken Armstrong
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