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25 June 2020
United States
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1500-3000 Words
The most effective civilian oversight agencies that act as watchdogs over police discipline are empowered to conduct independent investigations, impose discipline on individual officers, and influence disciplinary pol...
25 June 2020
San Quentin, California, United States
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Over 3000 Words
San Quentin Prison's media created by the men incarcerated there have gone beyond rehabilitation of individuals to a broader mission of promoting criminal justice policy reform by reframing the narrative about those w...
24 June 2020
Mississippi, United States
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Under 800 Words
Black businesses in Mississippi are receiving a financial boost from a nonprofit that seeks to level the playing field for rural African-Americans in the state who have historically been overlooked when it comes to fe...
24 June 2020
Woodlynne, New Jersey, United States
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1500-3000 Words
New Jersey’s responses to police misconduct offer stark lessons in how certain failures can allow troubled officers to hop from job to job undetected. The state lacks a central database of police misconduct and remain...
CNN
Ashley Vaughan
23 June 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
University Rebuild brings together theater members in Minneapolis who are not working due to Covid-19 to use their skills in support of the Black Lives Matters movement by helping communities clean up, make repairs, a...
23 June 2020
Germany
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1500-3000 Words
To prevent its police forces from ever again being turned into militarized and politicized tools of an authoritarian state, Germany requires all police trainees to visit former Nazi concentration camps and learn in de...
22 June 2020
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Twelve Honolulu high school students, who had only ever met online, used social media to organize a Black Lives Matter protest that drew over 10,000 people. The teens used online forums to communicate about their goal...
22 June 2020
Denver, Colorado, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Less than one month into its use of a crisis intervention team to handle mental health calls in place of the police, Denver’s one-year STAR pilot project has been flooded with calls and already has achieved success in...
19 June 2020
United States
Video
5-15 Minutes
Just as the Emmett Till murder helped inspire protests in the civil rights era, which in turn led to the passage of civil rights and voting rights legislation, the protests over policing in 2020 already have sparked r...
17 June 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The Minneapolis school board’s vote to remove police from public schools arose not only from protests over the police killing of George Floyd, but also from a long-term advocacy project to end the so-called school-to-...
17 June 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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800-1500 Words
Many organizations are holding food drives, providing hot meals, and delivering essential items like groceries and diapers to children and their communities in underserved Chicago neighborhoods. Based on a tradition o...
16 June 2020
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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800-1500 Words
Nonprofit bail funds, which use donated money to pay the bail of low-income people held in jail on pending charges, have won the release of about 55 people in Detroit during the COVID-19 crisis. Beyond the immediate n...
The Washington Post
Gregory Scruggs
16 June 2020
Seattle, Washington, United States
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800-1500 Words
In Seattle's police-free street encampment that sprang up during protests over policing abuses, a mostly unarmed group of volunteer "sentinels" has defused a number of potential problems while largely avoiding the use...
16 June 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Under 800 Words
When protests against police violence turned into looting and anti-Black violence in some Latinx neighborhoods, violence interrupters from groups such as UCAN, EnLace, and Chicago CRED brokered a peace agreement that ...
15 June 2020
Wagram, North Carolina, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A former North Carolina prison has been reclaimed by the nonprofit Growing Change to teach sustainable farming to youth who otherwise might be doomed to their own prison terms without an effective intervention. The 9-...
12 June 2020
Camden, New Jersey, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A decade after Camden crime and police relations hit bottom, and five years after President Obama lauded its new police department as a model for reform, the city's successful reboot of its police force offers both en...
12 June 2020
Camden, New Jersey, United States
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800-1500 Words
Hailed as an example of a successful, radical makeover of a police department, Camden's policing actually represents only a slight shift, from mass incarceration to its close cousin, mass supervision through surveilla...
12 June 2020
United States
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800-1500 Words
Spurred by the trend towards digital conferencing during the Covid19 pandemic, Black technologists created virtual gatherings to support communities who are generally underrepresented in the tech industry. “Quarantine...
11 June 2020
United States
Photojournalism
800-1500 Words
Artists are designing bold and direct messaging to provide Covid-19 information to underserved populations. The messaging is explicit, often highlighting the role of racism in health disparities seen with the virus, a...
11 June 2020
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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800-1500 Words
CAHOOTS, the 31-year-old program considered a model for the growing number of community-based crisis programs, fielded more than 24,000 calls in 2019, less than 1% of which required police involvement. The program's u...
10 June 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Truly independent citizen review boards can serve as an effective check on police misconduct if they are structured properly, but too many cities are like Philadelphia, where a lack of power and resources means they s...
10 June 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In the aftermath of George Floyd's death, the 'big three' major record labels - Sony, Warner, and Universal have taken meaningless actions to address the racial inequity in the music industry. Donations, diversity pan...
4 June 2020
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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800-1500 Words
Eight years after the New Orleans Police Department served as a model of how not to police, its Ethical Policing Is Courageous (EPIC) program has done more to dismantle the “blue wall of silence” than any other reform...
1 June 2020
Newark, New Jersey, United States
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800-1500 Words
Through a combination of protesters’ vigilance, mayoral leadership, anti-violence interventions, and de-escalation by police, Newark managed to avoid the violence that marred other cities’ responses in the initial bur...
30 May 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Derek Chauvin's journey through the Minneapolis Police Department’s officer-disciplinary system illustrates the weaknesses of that system and the failure of efforts to fix it. Chauvin, the officer charged in the death...
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