Giving police military gear doesn’t reduce crime or keep officers safer – but it does hurt citizens’ trust of the police, and for good reason.
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When it comes to making law enforcement professionals less likely to resort to use of force, higher education goes a long way, research shows.
White Americans have been in denial about the fact that police go after Black men and other men of colour. But the research and statistics kept by state and federal agencies show this happens.
Two major trials in the killings of black victims in South Carolina start this week. Learn about the state’s past and present struggle with racial violence in this roundup.
What are the race-related struggles that African-American students experience throughout their school years? Here’s the story of Tyrone.
The men who killed police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge were black veterans. A historian explains black veterans’ long struggle to live with inequality in their military service, and back home.
The reforms today’s police departments desperately need were set out five decades ago.
Prince had ‘Purple Rain.’ Michael Jackson had ‘Thriller.’ And now Beyoncé has her own self-reflective masterpiece.
Racial inequality in America has its parallel in caste inequality in India. What can the world’s two largest democracies learn from each other?
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Associate Dean (Research) and Professor of History, Edge Hill University
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Professor, University of Michigan
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Brandeis University
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Associate Professor of Communications, Elon University
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Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Justice, Rights and Social Change, Brandeis University
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Yolanda Moses is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
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Director, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director, Nebraska Collaborative for Violence Intervention and Prevention, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Iowa State University
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Assistant Professor of Global Studies, Gardner-Webb University