642 Million Reasons Chicago Doesn’t Need More Police
Since 2004, Chicago has spent $642 million on police-related legal claims. Between 2012 and 2015, the City paid out a total of $210 million to settle police misconduct lawsuits, many on the receiving...
View ArticleHere’s What You Need To Know About Build Black Futures Advocacy Day
Earlier this year BYP100 released the Agenda to Build Black Futures, followed by A Vision For Black Lives policy platform that they signed on to this summer, both of which spread wide in the digital...
View ArticleReview of ‘The 13th’: When Art Imitates Life, We Have to Ask “What’s Next?”
Regardless of where you are in your political education, Ava DuVernay’s documentary The 13th was pretty well done. Weaving the staggering numbers of rising incarceration rates with the insights of...
View ArticleWe Need Revolution, Not Endorsements
It is true that the Movement for Black Lives is leaderless; it is also true that Deray McKesson has been dubbed the face of this same movement, and within his time as “The Face,” many people –...
View ArticleA Few Ways to Support Police Abolition In The New Year (Or Right Now)
“Why do we accept forms of security that are rooted in violence?” – Angela Davis, Lecture at University of Chicago November 2016 When I first learned of prison abolition it was from Angela Davis during...
View ArticleThis new video compares Donald Trump’s platform to the Black Panther Party’s
Unfortunately, we should now accept that Donald Trump will be President of the United States come January 20, 2017 (over a month later I’m still experiencing some disbelief in this truth). But what I...
View ArticleThis Cover of TIME Came and Went, but it has a Message for Our Movement
On the cover of TIME Magazine’s special February edition is a faceless white man behind bars. At first glance, I assumed this was an issue about millionaires and billionaires who deserve jail time for...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about Chicago’s ‘gang database’ and the lawsuit from...
In a “broken windows” fashion, the Chicago Police Department sustains a gang database of its residents. They say this is in efforts to stay ahead on crime. They also seek to punish those on the list to...
View ArticleBlack man: “give me a lawyer, dog.” Racist court system says he wasn’t asking...
In common everyday usage, the term “dog” when used by Black people almost never refers to a literal dog, and when Warren Demesme used this parlance in a police interview, they claim actually thought...
View ArticleMeek Mill sentenced to 2-4 years for violating probation in a 2008 case he...
Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill was sentenced to two to four years in a state penitentiary stemming from a probation violation related to his 2008 gun and drug charges, even though Mill has complied with...
View ArticleJohn Legend calls for the end of racist non-unanimous jury convictions in...
Singer/songwriter/producer John Legend recently wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post calling for the removal of non-unanimous juries from the State of Louisiana’s Constitution. At present, Louisiana...
View ArticleWhy the plan to replace Rikers, or reform any prison, is doomed to perpetuate...
By Ragini Srikrishna and Monica Mohapatra Before the controversy around Amazon coming to New York dominated the headlines, the mayor and city officials were quietly working on opening four new...
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