If President Donald Trump has his way, federal law enforcement agents like those in Portland, Oregon, could soon head to other cities with Democratic mayors: “I’m going to do something — that, I can tell you. Because we’re not going to let New York and Chicago and Philadelphia and Detroit and Baltimore […]
Read Time : 7 Minutes
Statistical and Historical Evidence for Systemic Racism
The recent surge of protests against police brutality has brought into question the police’s ability to make a fair judgment to all groups of people and disregard racism. From an outsider’s perspective, it appears that the police, and more recently, the government, have a tendency to punish people of color […]
Read Time : 12 Minutes
How Teenage Influencers Impact Youth Activism
At the turn of the century, our society was introduced to a new form of media. It was a way for average people to connect with others across continents to share their pictures or messages. Use of social media has grown astronomically in the past decade and has resulted in […]
Read Time : 9 Minutes
The Police Brutality Riots: It’s No Longer About Justice
In America’s polarized politics, pointing to the errors made on both sides of the conflicts that divide us gets a bad rap. What has the Civil Rights Movement taught us? What did it say about police brutality? It just comes to show how little our society has actually come. This […]