Rolling Stone recently featured some of the youth activists inspired by the Black Lives Matter protests and how they are using social media to lead the fight for change in their communities. In this video companion to our Year in Review article, we sat down with the photographers behind the …
Read More »'John Lewis: Good Trouble' Review: Portrait of an American Hero
John Lewis declares that, during the 1960s, he was arrested “a few times.” Then the elder statesman and éminence grise of the civil rights movement pauses before correcting himself in front of the large Dallas crowd he’s addressing: “40 times…and since I’ve been in Congress, another five times. I’m probably …
Read More »John Oliver Traces History of Racist Police Violence, Routes to Reform
John Oliver dedicated all of Sunday’s Last Week Tonight to examining the history of racist police violence, the roadblocks to reform and ways to overhaul law enforcement following worldwide protests over the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others. Oliver opened by showing just how “deeply policing in this …
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