Prosecuting Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers And Facing Down Legal Threats to Black Lives Last Wednesday, a grand jury indicted the three Georgia men who harassed, chased down, and killed Ahmaud Arbery in broad daylight. Each of the defendants was indicted on nine counts, the...

The Brother of George Floyd Offers Historic Testimony before Global Human Rights Body On Wednesday, three weeks after the killing of George Floyd, his brother riveted the United Nations Human Rights Council with resounding testimony about the grief and anger the...

George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police—the cruel, unjustified killing of yet another Black man by White officers charged to protect and serve—is a mournful window into America’s shameful human rights crisis. If the inherent right to life venerated in...

COVID-19 Is Not the Only Virus at Work: We Must Counter Racist Attacks on Asian Americans A crisis can bring out the best in people. Unfortunately, it can also bring out the worst. The novel coronavirus pandemic has done both. Americans first heard in December about...

Support the Jabara-Heyer “No Hate” Act to Increase Accountability Khalid Jabara, a Lebanese-American whose family had fled Lebanon’s civil war and religious persecution, was shot and killed on his front porch in Tulsa, Oklahoma on August 12, 2016. The shooter, who...

Many of us are besieged right now with calls to embrace the joy of the season—to plan parties, buy gifts, don our most festive faces. The promise of time with family and friends sparks joy, indeed, as does the anticipation of Christmas, even as holiday expectations...

On the San Francisco Bay Area public transit system last spring, I saw a heavily armed police officer rouse a man who was sleeping peacefully on the seat in front of me, his humble load of well-worn belongings beside him. The officer forced him to get off at the next...