Justice is supposed to be blind. If the so-called justice system is not blind then it's of no use.  This is a truism if you happen to be...

I have never been to prison. My understanding is that some (many?) of the nation's worst large state men's prison systems are or wer...

It is frustrating that I could change only the names and dates in the two stories in this post and the events would be identical to other in...

It's a source of cynical amusement, frustration, and anger to me how some Americans think that THOSE people should always immediately an...

So many Black men and boys are accosted, harassed, assaulted, and murdered by their local police departments that it's difficult to ke...

American Black men who are present where white people think they shouldn't be are in danger of either being assaulted ( if the white p...

Police detained a black Colorado man who was picking up trash outside his own home. A Boulder police officer questioned the man after spot...

Although the most charged scenarios of police brutality which get the most community attention often involve white cops and black citizens...

Racism isn't just about committing genocide or hurling racial slurs in a never ending Tourette's spasm. It's also about refusi...

As we've discussed many times before the problem with police is not just a question of individual personal bigotry. It's that poli...

Even before the Trump directed zero tolerance illegal immigration policy in which every person who unlawfully entered the United States wo...

I want you to imagine that you're peacefully resting, reading, sleeping or just doing whatever you like to do in your own home.  Yo...

What exactly is the proper protocol to use when someone attempts to sexually assault you? Well there isn't any one correct response fo...

Imagine that you have just spent two days in the hospital. Maybe you had surgery. Maybe you ate crappy hospital food. Maybe ...

I'm not a lawyer. And I don't keep up with all of the ways in which the Federal government and various states and municipalities...

One of the most predictable occurrences in life is that many people simply do not understand or empathize with certain situations until ...

You might ask yourself why some white cops are so quick to use deadly force against unarmed Black men and boys. You then might ask yoursel...

I don't really know what to say about this story which recently took place in Forth Worth Texas. A white police officer insulted and a...

On September 16, 2016 Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby shot and killed one U.S. citizen named Terence Crutcher. Mr. Crutcher was unarmed. H...

If you have paid any attention to the news over the past two weeks you've seen that San Francisco Forty-Niners ( former starting and now...