The case for mocking bigotry

Does it seem like every day this month you’ve heard about people, white people, calling the cops or security on people of color sitting in Starbucks (more than once), coming out of their Air BNBs, sleeping in the common area of their dormitories, trying to return a...

Black girls matter

By now you’ve seen or at least heard about the video with the South Carolina police officer pulling a black female student from her desk and throwing her across the room. A federal civil rights investigation has been opened and the officer’s past conduct...

CA law aims to reduce racial profiling

One of the most contentious or California’s new laws is a strengthening of the state’s racial profiling law. It’s about hard data, and it forces all law enforcement organizations to report the race of every person stopped by officers. Police associations...

Perils of parenting while black

You may have heard about the brief sensation a video made when the recording of a black mother beating her teenage son went viral. The 50-second video, soon broadcast on CBS and CNN, was shot the day of Freddie Gray’s funeral in April, when hundreds of Baltimore...