Civil Rights

‘#BlackLivesMatter’ is used for a reason

• The New Threat: 'Racism without Racists' | CNN

• Things To Stop Being Distracted By When A Black Person Gets Murdered By Police | Black Girl Dangerous

  A discussion of how post-non-indictment rebellion is not "looting" or a "riot."

• How to Really Understand White Privilege | Quartz

  In comic form.

• Hands Up: A Roundtable on Police Brutality | n+1

• All Eyes on Ferguson | Bitch Magazine

  A review of the indictment with an examination of racial profiling and killing by police officers.

• MTV's Look Different

  Collaboration between MTV and the Southern Poverty Law Center to create PSAs and online interaction related to racism, privilege, and inequality surrounding Ferguson events.

• Why It's Impossible to Indict a Cop | The Nation

  "It’s not just Ferguson—here’s how the system protects police."

• A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement | The Feminist Wire

  An account of how the #BlackLivesMatter movement began and where it stands currently by one of its founders.

• Black Lives Matter / Black Life Matters: A Conversation with Patrisse Cullors and Darnell L. Moore | The Feminist Wire

  Both Cullors and Moore will be in Tucson for the Black Lives Matter conference in January 2015 (see more info on the Campus Resources page).

• Women of Color and the Hidden Trauma of Police Brutality | The Nation

• Being a cop showed me just how racist and violent the police are. There’s only one fix. | The Washington Post