mariame kaba
Can't Imagine a World Without Police? Start Here
Wondering if killer cops should be locked up? Hearing terms like 'community accountability' and 'restorative justice' but confused about what they mean? Here's a primer on the police abolitionist vision of the future.
A Year of #MeToo Exhausted Women—And Renewed Our Collective Hope
If we cannot name our oppression—if we cannot articulate the violence that has been done to us—it will be impossible to fight against it, or to prevent it from happening again.
'More Justice and Some Peace': Mariame Kaba on Ending America's Violence
We talked to the community organizer about her decades-long work to transform the conditions that lead to police brutality and gendered violence in Chicago, where she lived for 20 years, and New York, where she grew up.
How to Repair the Criminal Justice System
We talked to leaders and activists spearheading prison reform to find out what we can do to fix our broken penal system.
The NFL's Domestic Violence Problem and Our Race Problem
Football, because it employs so many black men and is so popular, reflects a skewed racialized image of violence back into our society.
The Pentagon Is Giving Grenade Launchers to Campus Police
With help from the Pentagon, colleges across the United States are buying military-grade weapons, and putting campuses into perpetual lockdown.