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Spurred by Black Lives Matter, coverage of police violence is changing
Newsrooms are moving away from privileging police accounts over those of police violence victims.
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Black Chicago has been looted for decades
Three weeks ago, the nation was transfixed on images of people running out of downtown stores with their hands full. But the historic plunder of Black Chicago deserves our attention, too.
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Kenosha police shooting of Jacob Blake spotlights systemic racism, police spending in Wisconsin
Wisconsin cities with the highest numbers of Black residents tend to spend more on policing. Those police forces are also a lot whiter than the cities they serve.
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Q&A: What does pollution have to do with police violence?
Particulate matter pollution and racist police violence have quite a lot in common, according to this academic.
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In Chicago, a steep rise in suicide among Black people
Halfway through 2020, the number of Black residents of Cook County who’ve died by suicide has already surpassed last year’s total. “Ignoring the issue until it becomes a crisis has become the method of treatment,” says one mental health advocate.
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Listen: Chicago youth leaders Miracle Boyd and China Smith reflect on activism, trauma, and growth
Two youth organizers with GoodKids MadCity share what activism has taught them, how it has affected them, and how they want to transform Chicago.
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‘How was she a threat?’ Chicago police attack on Black youth leader Miracle Boyd outrages activists, officials
Miracle Boyd, 18, is an organizer with GoodKids MadCity and a rising Chicago youth leader. An unidentified police officer struck her in the mouth Friday at a Black, Indigenous American rally, breaking several of her teeth.
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Essential Work: Young Black activists ‘in the middle of history’ confront Covid-19 and racism
GoodKids MadCity youth organizers China Smith and Miracle Boyd reflect on their experiences amid the pandemic and the growing movement against racial injustice, part of our ‘Essential Work’ series.