Racial Profiling, Security, and Human Rights: State-Sanctioned Violence and Anti-Blackness
The police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade, a transman, sparked the current uprising, but we shouldn’t forget the much longer list of people, women and trans people included, we’ve lost because of police brutality and the violence that civilians, vigilantes supposedly enforcing law and order in their communities, also inflict on … Continue reading
How a Divided USA Faces a Convergence of Multiple Crises
This essay is a slightly revised version of the original English-language version of an op-ed translated into Slovak for Pravda, which posted it on June 2, 2020: https://spravy.pravda.sk/svet/clanok/553237-rozdelene-usa-celia-viacerym-krizam/ I appreciate the interest that Pravda, a newspaper in Slovakia, has in covering the escalating situation in Minneapolis and national responses to it, from the White House to … Continue reading
Police Brutality, Mass Protests, & Demands for Racial Justice
I was interviewed on the current civil unrest in the United States, which is being closely watched all over the world. I’m posting a link to “Systemic racism in the U.S. assumes a variety of covert and overt forms,” which is on the website of the human rights organization, Organization for Defending Victims of Violence … Continue reading
Faye V Harrison
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