1) The concerted campaign that got public health experts to declare racist policing a crisis
The story of what it took to get the 25,000-member American Public Health Assn. to explicitly state that systemic racism contributes to bad policing presages the conversations occurring across the country now. Read more…
2) Guess which major Los Angeles daily newspaper helped write discrimination into California law?
How the L.A. Times helped write segregation into California’s Constitution in 1964. Proposition 14 revealed the shameless lengths to which white Californians were willing to go to prevent people of color, particularly Black Americans, from becoming their neighbors. Read more…
3) ‘White Supremacy’ Once Meant David Duke and the Klan. Now It Refers to Much More.
The phrase has poured into the nation’s rhetorical bloodstream. Organizations from the N.F.L. to art museums to colleges requiring the SAT are accused of perpetuating it. Read more…
4) How a Pledge to Dismantle the Minneapolis Police Collapsed
When a majority of City Council members promised to “end policing as we know it” after George Floyd’s killing, they became a case study in how idealistic calls for structural change can falter. Read more…
5) Resources for Coping with Race Related Trauma:
https://www.psychology.uga.edu/coping-racial-trauma
https://www.apa.org/res/parent-resources/racial-stress?tab=3
