The city of Davis, California, was recently shaken up following a spate of stabbings — three over the course of five days, beginning on...
Abolition
WASHINGTON, D.C. — At the Anacostia roller skate park in Washington, D.C., Lakeasha Coley cradled her baby grandson against her chest while watching her...
The horrific choking murder of 30-year-old Jordan Neely by a white MTA rider on May 1, 2023, in the New York City subway sparked...
Kansas City, Missouri, has been in a frenzy. While the city grapples with escalating gun violence, rising alongside soaring temperatures, the much-anticipated NFL draft...
What will your conversation heart say this Valentine’s Day? Will it replicate the possessive politics of modern heteronormative love — summed up by phrases...
Mourners gathered in Memphis, Tennessee, Wednesday for the funeral of Tyre Nichols, who died on January 10, three days after being severely beaten by...
Content warning: This article describes domestic and sexual abuse, as well as violence committed by prison guards. Thousands of the women and trans and...
“Armies of officials are clothed in uniform, invested with authority, armed with the instruments of violence & death & conditioned to believe that they...
This story was originally published by Prism. “America is revealing a visage stark with harshness. Nowhere is that face more contorted than in the...
The demonstrators repeatedly chanted “Oh sh*t!” outside the Texas District Attorney’s Office. These were the words spoken by Houston police officer Shane Privette after...
“There’s no doubt that we have to abolish the carceral state. And there’s no doubt that policing and racial capitalism go hand in hand...
Originally published by Prism. Hours before dawn on Sept. 26, the incarcerated workers who run the prison kitchens across Alabama were slated to begin...
Brightest cosmic explosion of all time: how we may have solved the mystery of its puzzling persistence