https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to police violence en https://religiondispatches.org/2023/03/10/death-black-man-hands-black-officers-unveiled-something-more-complex-whiteness Americans of conscience are exhausted by law-and-order grief—a chronic remorse and lamentation emanating from police violence visited upon unprotected peoples. The storied American tradition of anti-Black policing crudely lengthens the legacy of Black mothers’ tears as yet another unarmed Black… Fri, 10 Mar 2023 01:18:28 EST Willie Dwayne Francois ec07752c-d03c-4ff6-b792-60923180c2d5 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/30/police-response-uvalde-prompts-question-serve-and-protect-whom Sometimes it’s little details that evoke the biggest feels. I’ve been writing about the Uvalde massacre most of the past week. I’ve been so focused on facts and arguments, I haven’t sobbed. But the tears came after reading a report… Mon, 30 May 2022 02:19:33 EDT John Stoehr 8108e5f7-af47-403c-9f36-b478773c79f6 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/12/20/youre-fcked-how-pouncing-mistakes-helps-right-escape-moral-accountability “If you make a mistake, another mistake, there is a very severe possibility that you’re both going to get shot,” says a cop to the man and the woman lying face down on the floor of a hotel hallway. It’s… Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:16:41 EST Jonathan Malesic 13f717a0-c65e-4b84-a5d9-c20b690d9d69 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/10/13/tell-me-what-you-believe-about-ferguson-and-ill-tell-you-what-you-believe-about-god Three years post-uprising, the community still struggles to be seen. Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:40:23 EDT Anita Little 5f8f4eae-d124-492e-bf1a-e0263401fe14 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/09/25/takeaknee-race-and-religious-violence-heart-trump-attacks-kaepernicknfl Thinking about the place of violence in American civil religion helps solve a perplexing theme in the debate over professional athletes’ protests. Mon, 25 Sep 2017 03:44:36 EDT Benjamin E. Zeller 49c56818-d2f8-44b8-92f7-f7ff4c78d65d https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/06/charged-impiety-when-black-bodies-defy-tradition When Black athletes like Gabrielle Douglas fail to be model Olympians and model players, they become treasonous. Thu, 06 Oct 2016 01:47:16 EDT Yazmine Nichols 141a775e-2167-447d-8abf-3e3b4f0132bd https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/27/whitechurchquiet-anything-outrage-complicity Why is it always “courageous” to stand with Black people? Tue, 27 Sep 2016 09:04:25 EDT Andre E. Johnson 850e33d9-c366-410e-a799-460b1078004d https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/22/how-protesting-black-bodies-are-imagined-threat-national-pride Last night, Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman declined to take questions during a press conference, opting instead to give a plainspoken but powerful speech on the police killings of black men and the damage it does to black communities, especially… Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:17:25 EDT Joseph Winters ab6fd319-0b93-4708-baad-313713db72f4 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/18/good-guy-gun-myth On the windy bluffs of Weehawken, New Jersey, overlooking Manhattan, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr regard one another coldly. In awful synchrony, the pair raise their flintlock pistols, each one squinting down the barrel. Two sharp reports, and Hamilton collapses… Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:04:02 EDT Carlos Wilton 032aa329-b153-4dd4-b9f7-a66e59cd5626 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/11/america-willing-be-freed-its-demons There is a poignant story in the gospel of Mark where Jesus encounters a young man tormented by a demon. The boy’s father, who desperately wants Jesus’ disciples to help him, has reached the point of exhaustion. The disciples cannot… Mon, 11 Jul 2016 05:37:34 EDT Willie James Jennings 60a746a9-c69e-4002-a34e-755ddf7879c2 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/10/fire-time I know. You want me to say something profound, the hard thing. You want me to say something passionate, something to rally you, something to make you feel like there is hope, and that we’re going to change. But that’s not what this piece is about. Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:19:22 EDT Anthea Butler a5261ba9-4829-4a5a-87c0-f2bd06a655cf https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/10/problem-we-all-live-bearing-witness-never-finding-justice We do not love ourselves. We have become cavalier with each other’s lives and we, as a nation, have not yet decided that we have reached the point where we will now practice willful and strategic eradication of the complex… Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:34:03 EDT Emilie M. Townes 3cb3b705-2189-4ded-b533-8aa778d960a4 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/08/blacklivesmatterstill-we-cannot-let-anyone-else-define-our-movement Words are insufficient. Words—like horror, atrocity and domestic terrorism—are inadequate. Words—like sin, evil and blasphemy—are wholly lacking. “Violence is woven into the fabric of our country. Violence has been deployed against black folk from the moment we arrived on this… Fri, 08 Jul 2016 08:14:15 EDT Wil Gafney a7ab597b-9f3e-4b3e-a815-b2c2fe89ce21 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/02/26/gay-black-and-muslim-naz-maalik-challenges-easy-assumptions-about-progress Naz & Maalik is a groundbreaking film. Featuring two black, gay Muslim teenage boys, the film, written and directed by Jack Dockendorf, is based on interviews with youth living at the intersections of multiple identities. Sure, there are plenty of… Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:44:47 EST Zannah Kimbrel 5eb5557c-665d-4993-80c2-336959364177 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/04/16/why-body-cameras-wont-solve-police-brutality In a word: us. Thu, 16 Apr 2015 05:02:11 EDT Stephanie Gaskill 40998482-cdea-4a3e-beeb-291e847e9d0c https://religiondispatches.org/2010/01/13/black-media-fails-its-lgbtq-community When police brutally beat an African American transsexual the black media turns away; but homo- and transphobia in the media hurt the entire community. Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:23:23 EST Rev. Irene Monroe 47fc0340-627f-41f4-8dec-2ac21dee983d