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High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach

By Andrew Guthrie Ferguson | June 18, 2020

Police forces across the country now have access to surveillance technologies that were recently available only to national intelligence services. The digitization of bias and abuse of power followed.

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What the Supreme Court’s decision on LGBT employment discrimination will mean for transgender Americans

By Christopher Carpenter and Gilbert Gonzales | June 18, 2020

In a national survey, transgender individuals had worse employment outcomes, lower incomes and higher rates of poverty than cisgender people.

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Native American tribes’ pandemic response is hamstrung by many inequities

By Lindsey Schneider, Joshua Sbicca and Stephanie Malin | June 18, 2020

Many Native American tribes are reporting high COVID-19 infection rates. State and federal agencies are impeding tribes’ efforts to handle the pandemic themselves.

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Asian Americans invisible in COVID-19 data and in public health response

By Namratha Kandula and Nilay Shah | June 16, 2020

In Illinois and beyond, specific action is needed to better understand how the pandemic is impacting Asian American communities especially at risk of infection.

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Coronavirus-related debt will live in digital profiles for years – hurting Americans’ ability to get jobs, apartments and credit

By Michele Gilman | June 12, 2020

For economically strapped Americans, the financial fallout from the epidemic may be permanently embedded in their digital profiles, making it harder for them to regain their economic footing.

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Militarization has fostered a policing culture that sets up protesters as ‘the enemy’

By Tom Nolan | June 12, 2020

The militarization of local police departments has been associated with an increase in police violence against citizens.

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What’s the alternative to police in schools? Restorative justice.

By Curtis Black | June 11, 2020

Restorative justice programs have already proven effective at Chicago Public Schools, but lack the level of funding budgeted for the district’s contract with the Chicago Police Department.

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‘It’s really a revolution’: Ja’Mal Green on protests taking over Chicago and the nation and what’s next for the movement

By Josh McGhee | June 5, 2020

In an interview with The Chicago Reporter, the local organizer explains why ongoing mass demonstrations in response to the police killing of George Floyd are different from those about Laquan McDonald five years ago.

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To mobilize outrage over George Floyd’s killing, look to lessons of social movements past

By Curtis Black | June 4, 2020

The Chicago Black Panther Party, Rainbow Coalition, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and other historical organizing projects point to the possibilities for harnessing the vast mobilization of outrage we’re seeing today.

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We protest police in the streets, so why do we let police in our schools?

By Dave Stieber | June 3, 2020

The fear of black students and white savior ideology in educators and policymakers is keeping police in under-resourced schools despite their role in the school-to-prison pipeline and the well-known harm to students.

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