From Indy Media

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...

The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis has drawn historic levels of interest in police misconduct and drawn condemnation from law enforcement leaders nationwide. As a reporter covering law enforcement for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey,...

Over the last few days, we’ve seen a national uprising against racism and police brutality. In response, the first instinct of the defenders of the status quo was to unite behind an old talking point: the uprising was carried out by “outside agitators” from beyond the...

The flames burned both for Floyd and for the vanishing dream of a moral economy. “In America the processes of racial subjection and material dispossession are inseparable.” As we emerged from a weekend in which legions of protesters in Minneapolis and other cities...

The Osmonds," a Saturday-morning cartoon from the 1970s, always ended with a sickly melody that stays permanently in  my mind. "One Bad Apple" was about unrequited love (from girls, rather than cops). I knew the lyrics before I understood what "bad apple" meant, or,...

A narrative, by its nature, is a contained thing. Some bits get trimmed out in the interest of coherence. Some get cut for time or space. Always, a storyteller makes choices, choices that are informed by her worldview, to collect material in support of a thesis, a...

The public has protested for nine consecutive nights following George Floyd’s death on May 25 and one of the goals—that all four of the Minneapolis Police Department’s (MPD) officers who were on the scene for the deadly encounter are charged—has been met, national...

Organizers of the United Nations COP 26 climate change conference that has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic announced Thursday that the summit will now be held during the first two weeks of November 2021 in Glasgow—prompting a new wave of calls for...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday regarding social media sites, in response to a fact-check he received from Twitter earlier this week, with hopes that his doing so will allow the reinterpretation of a law widely cited as crucial for the...

The police killing of George Floyd, a Black man who said he couldn’t breathe as white officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck, has touched off an uprising in Minneapolis that left a police precinct ablaze Thursday night. After Minnesota governor Tim Walz, a...