Park Center for Independent Media
Black rebellion brings insecurity to those in power, as editors, mayors and even long dead criminals are being called to account. “Demands for community control and abolition must remain at the top of the list.” Everything has changed since the world witnessed George...
Facing attacks from President Trump, Joe Biden’s campaign said on Monday that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee would not answer the call from hundreds of thousands of people who have taken to the streets to defund local police departments. However, most...
They are everywhere at the protests, handing out masks, squirts of hand sanitizer, bottles of water, energy bars. They don’t have a name, really, the people who decide to come to the marches prepared to keep others around them safe, fed, and hydrated. There are...
A new website created by recent Park School graduate Peter Champelli, and Nate Richter has been launched. Good News is a digital exploration of what the news is doing to our society and how activists are building a better future. The team had three goals for this...
Recent graduates and former PCIM interns Peter Champelli and Tara Eng, with Lauryn Edmondson, created social media infographic "How to Spot Propaganda," discussing unethical tactics mainstream media use while covering the Black Lives Matter protests. Sleek visuals...
All Four Officers Involved in George Floyd Case Will Face Charges On Thursday, following nine consecutive nights of protests after the killing of George Floyd, one of the movement’s goals has been met: all four Minneapolis Police Department officers present at Floyd’s...
With the nation convulsed by multiple crises, President Donald Trump returned to a favorite stand-by of his presidency—asserting his authority to sweep aside environmental restraints and speed up construction of oil and gas pipelines. But the executive order that he...
As the revolt against The New York Times’ decision to publish GOP Senator Tom Cotton’s op-ed calling on President Donald Trump to “send in the troops” spread across social media Wednesday night, encouraged by brave Times writers who publicly challenged the move, it...
Donald Trump, who has cratered in opinion polls this spring as the pandemic and the economic collapse have battered the U.S., is attempting to turn this past week’s explosion of political protest amid a deadly pandemic into his Reichstag fire moment. Back in 1933,...
We go to Louisville, where protesters are calling for charges against the officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old African American woman who was an emergency room technician treating COVID patients and was shot to death by police inside her...