I sat down with Jody Avirgan, host of FiveThirtyEight's "What's the Point" to discuss the complexities of police data collection.
Read MoreI appeared on FiveThirtyEight's What's the Point podcast to explain why, a year after Ferguson erupted, the federal government still doesn't have a system to accurately count of how many people are killed by the police each year.
Read MoreWhile reporting in Charleston, South Carolina, I witnessed the pervasive toxicity of the South's racist legacy first hand.
Read MoreI joined my friend Morgan Kelly Radford on Al Jazeera America to discuss the Los Angeles Times' recent move to hire a reporter to exclusively cover #BlackTwitter.
Read MoreIs President Obama the scold of black America or its empathetic prophet?
Read MoreThe Department of Justice’s report on its investigation of the Ferguson, Mo. Police Department debunked one of the nation’s most popular policing philosophies, and hardly anyone noticed.
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Listen to my discussion with Jason Whitlock, editor-in-chief of ESPN's The Undefeated. We explored my articles on white silence and Black Twitter for his Real Talk podcast.
Read MoreThe bottom line: The majority of white Americans believe the nation's police are doing a good job despite that work often ending in the deaths of unarmed black people.
Read MoreThe slogan, the movement was always about more than Mike Brown.
Read MoreOther Fergusons loom on the horizon, and we shouldn't wait until an officer shoots another person and a city erupts to fix them. The lessons emerging from Ferguson can and should guide a nationwide overhaul to police reform. Now, while the whole country is focused on this issue, we should seize this moment to develop solutions that are as comprehensive as the problems are vast.
Read MoreEnding police brutality isn’t up to the communities that are brutalized. It’s up to the cops.
Read MoreIn a country that has identified black people as its criminal element, public safety (and perceived security) is more tied to the suppression of blacks than it is to the suppression of crime. And as long as the public insists on its myth of black criminality—almost as an article of faith—police practices will be impossible to reform.
Read MoreIn attempting to acknowledge all sides in conversations on race, President Obama overlooks essential truths.
Read MoreIt’s not about smart phones, selfies or social media. The reason Millennials aren’t making some of life’s biggest purchases is because we’re broke. As James Carville might say, “it’s the economy, stupid."
Read MoreThis phobia of black rage is nothing new. It motivated the slave codes that prohibited blacks from handling guns. It morphs wallets into weapons. Ironically, it’s why Ferguson police responded to what was a gathering of concerned residents with armored vehicles and tear gas. Almost laughably, it even led authorities to believe that the 1963 March On Washington would surely erupt into violence.
Read MoreEnglish writer Daniel Defoe famously said that only two things in this life are certain: death and taxes. After a dismally low turnout in the 2014 midterm elections, folks are considering adding voting to that list, but should we? And—for proponents of compulsory voting—what’s the fairest, most commonsense way to go about mandating the vote?
Read MoreThe Ohio Secretary of State race wasn’t just about the will of the people. It was a race heavily influenced by financial contributions from big-money donors.
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When many think of 21st century voter suppression, the first thing that might come to mind is the network of unnecessary voter ID laws that disproportionately affect the young, the elderly and voters of color. There is, however, a minefield of other voter suppression tactics at work, many of which are on display in the great state of Georgia.
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