Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the lesser known brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South.
If you can’t rein in the police, you can’t save democracy
In the mid-19th century, a pro-slavery minority — encouraged by lawmakers — used violence to stifle a growing anti-slavery majority. It wasn’t long before the other side embraced force as a necessary response.
This new examination of the civil rights movement considers it in terms of a military-style campaign.
What if all our schools required training in skilled, non-violent conflict resolution as a form of peace literacy and moral awareness for their students. Would that not be one of the most useful education skills for life that we could give them?
"None of this demonstrating in the snow shit," one commenter wrote in a MAGA forum. "Summertime was made for killing fields."
Marcelo de Arruda was shot at his birthday party by a supporter of President Bolsonaro
Resisting racist police violence and voter suppression, and the beat goes on
Special Focus: Violence against Asian Americans
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