Charles M. Blow, The New York Times - People are marching as a way of screaming, a way of exhaling pain, as an enormous group catharsis. This isn’t only about the pain of police brutality, it’s about all the pain. This is about all the injustice and disrespect and oppression. This is about ancestry andContinue reading "This Week in White Supremacy #129: ‘An Insatiable Rage’ – It is an everyday struggle to neither fall into despair nor explode in anger"
EJS 20th Anniversary – Reflecting on 2008 and Educating the Judiciary on Implicit Bias
2020 is the 20th anniversary of the Equal Justice Society. Every week leading up to our 20th anniversary celebration on September 17, we will highlight one year in our history. This week we remember 2008 and in particular a pivotal law review article we published that year.
Defunding the Police: Brief Overview of History, Models and the Demands of the Movement
The deep structural racism inherent in policing is becoming more visible to and less tolerated by a broader portion of our society. The Movement for Black Lives has popularized the work of abolitionists and galvanized social attention around the demand to defund the police and invest in education, affordable housing, healthcare, and community solutions to preventingContinue reading "Defunding the Police: Brief Overview of History, Models and the Demands of the Movement"