The Medium.  10 Ways For Non-Black Academics to Value Black Lives. By Stacey Chimimba Ault This spring has been hard. We have had to process the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery. We watched the premeditated attempt to endanger the life of Chris Cooper. We are also experiencing the violent response against Black Lives Matter protesters while armed … Read More

Via Barack Obama.  How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing problem of unequal justice, many people have reached out asking how we can sustain momentum … Read More

Via Chicago Tribune.  Can Police Data Predict how ‘Bad Apple’ Officers Influence their Fellow Cops? New Study Says Yes. By ANNIE SWEENEY For years, researchers and police officials across the country have mined data such as arrest and shooting records to examine how criminals influence each other’s behavior — and in the process try to predict … Read More

Via Medium.  Letting Go: 8 Years After Losing My Life Partner to Police Violence By Brandon D. Anderson Well before I was born, my grandfather, Foster, organized a group of Black business owners against police harassment. Grandpa Foster owned a nightclub in Oklahoma City where police had harassed him and his customers, threatening their safety so … Read More

Via HuffPost.  11 Things To Do Besides Say ‘This Has To Stop’ In The Wake Of Police Brutality Want to end police brutality against Black people? To paraphrase Angela Davis, it’s not enough to *not* be racist — you need to be antiracist. By Brittany Wong Let’s face it: We’ve become depressingly rote in our … Read More