How Demands for Affordable Housing Are Defining Pittsburgh’s Mayoral Race A disproportionate number of Black residents have left the city, and advocates say the next mayor needs to ensure greater access to housing. Joshua Vaughn
Confront and Remedy the Black Community’s COVID-19 Vaccine Skepticism Decades of exploitation, abuse, and racism in medicine have cost many Black Americans their lives during the pandemic. Now the government can act to prevent further harm. Ruqaiijah Yearby
Carroll Fife Is Fighting To Make Oakland Safer And More Equitable For Everyone In her run for City Council, Fife pushes back on the institutional barriers to Black people that come from a history of oppression. Eoin Higgins
Florida Governor’s Bid To Felonize Protesting Is An Attack On Democracy, Justice Advocate Says Legislation proposed this week by Gov. Ron DeSantis also seeks to withhold state funding from counties that move to decrease police budgets. Lauren Gill, Jerry Iannelli
Lawmakers Push For The Federal Government To Treat Racism As A Public Health Crisis Members of Congress have introduced a bill that would create a National Center on Anti-Racism in Health. Kira Lerner
Trump’s Voter Fraud Lie Is the Oldest Trick in the Book The president’s fearmongering over mail-in ballots is part of a long history of politicians denying members of marginalized communities, and particularly Black people, the right to vote. Jay Willis
Don’t Let Cops Join Our Protests Cops who turn marches against police violence into parades don’t actually want substantial changes to policing. Derecka Purnell
The Supreme Court Just Struck Down the Last State Law Allowing Split Jury Verdicts Ramos v. Louisiana is a long-overdue affirmation of the constitutional rights of criminal defendants—and sets the stage for dramatic Supreme Court fights in the years ahead. Jay Willis
Black Women Have Long Faced Racism in Healthcare. COVID-19 Is Only Amplifying It. A Brooklyn teacher tried three times to get treatment for the coronavirus. Now she’s fighting for her life. Erin Clare Brown
Jamal Trulove: The Enduring Trauma of Stop-and-Frisk As a Black child in San Francisco, I learned early that mine and others’ bodies meant nothing to those supposedly tasked with our protection. Jamal Trulove
A North Carolina Professor Gave Up His Free Speech Rights To Resolve a Case Involving a Controversial Sheriff Rann Bar-On pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault of Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson to remain a legal U.S. resident. For the next two years, he isn’t allowed to protest in the county. Aaron Morrison
Black Women Prosecutors Rally Behind St. Louis Circuit Attorney Over Racist Backlash Top prosecutors in Baltimore, Chicago, and New York City are supporting Kim Gardner over the “entrenched interests” that they say seek to undermine reforms and police accountability. Aaron Morrison
Community Policing Is Not the Answer Investing billions of government dollars into programs that embed police in Black communities will not reduce police violence, nor repair years of injustice. Philip V. McHarris
The Appeal Podcast: The War on Drugs Continues In Family Court With Miriam Mack and Elizabeth Tuttle Newman of The Bronx Defenders Adam H. Johnson
The Persistent History of Excluding Black Jurors in North Carolina A statewide pattern of discrimination in jury selection has gone largely uncorrected, while lives remain in the balance, advocates say. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
The Power of Peremptory Strikes As public servants, prosecutors should be willing to put their cases before anyone in the communities they serve. Vida B. Johnson
Spotlight: When Police Spread Racism and Hate Online, It Says Something About How They Work Vaidya Gullapalli
Spotlight: In A Study of Cops’ Facebook Accounts, 1 in 5 Had Posted Racist, Violent Content Vaidya Gullapalli
The Appeal Podcast: Reframing The Bronx 120 Raid With City University of New York law professor Babe Howell Adam H. Johnson
The Appeal Podcast: Black Lives Matter and Racism in the Criminal System With Angela J. Davis, Appeal contributor and professor of law at American University's Washington College of Law. Adam H. Johnson
In Alabama, Black People Are 4 Times More Likely Than White People To Be Arrested For Marijuana Possession A new report details Alabama’s “War on Marijuana” ahead of a key DA election. George Joseph
Justice in America Episode 4: A Conversation With John Legend Josie and Clint talk with the artist about criminal justice reform and his #FREEAMERICA campaign. Josie Duffy Rice, Clint Smith
An Inside Look At An Ohio Police Force’s Race Problem A white cop joked about bringing explosives to a Black Lives Matter protest in Columbus with no consequences. A black cop joked about ‘black on black’ crime and may be fired. George Joseph
Keith Tharpe’s Scheduled Execution Tests Our Tolerance for Racial Bias in Executions There are two types of Black people, the juror said, and Tharpe wasn’t a “good” one. Cassandra Stubbs
