Bruce Zagaris

Some Americans call the cops on black people for frivolous reasons. Others appoint themselves judge, jury, and — sometimes — executioner.

How the school-to-prison pipeline, poverty, and racism endanger our school children

A recent UN report on international poverty highlighted an unexpected crisis area: the United States.

The president’s offer to pardon people unjustly behind bars is a welcome one. But he could do so, so much more.

More than half a million Americans are homeless — the size of a large city.

The fight to curb gun violence must address the violence inflicted by law enforcement.

The deaths of Alton Sterling and others show that black Americans rarely get justice.

The evolution of Black roles in film, from Mammy to T’Challa.

The president called a man who freely violated people’s constitutional rights a “patriot.” What does that make his victims?

The economic concerns of the white working class and people of color are more alike than different.

Shooting after shooting, police deny black lives even the most basic human concern that could’ve saved them.

Punitive school policies are funneling children – especially African-Americans – out of the classroom and into jail cells.

The infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court ruling once denied African Americans any and all rights as human beings. Has anything changed?

Emmett Till’s mother brought awareness to America’s failed, racist justice system over 60 years ago. Today, mothers are still at the forefront of the fight for justice for their children and all children.

An emerging grassroots, family-based movement, sustained by the love of mothers across the nation, reminds us that mothers are leaders as well as nurturers, teachers as well as advocates.

A movement of family members is developing around the country that aims to challenge both the conditions in which their loved ones are held and the fact of mass incarceration itself.

State-sanctioned racial oppression is achieved through a new kind of slavery.

Drug profits moving through the U.S. financial system are estimated to be as high as $100 billion a year.