An examination of Sedgwick County’s bail system found practices that exacerbate inequality within the criminal justice system ...

The US Program understands racial justice to be fundamental to respect for human rights, impacting all other rights in the US. Racial justice considerations inform all our work, which includes ...

Enrique C. Ochoa details the transformation of Mexico’s food economy from a traditional, locally controlled system to one driven by neoliberal ideas of modernity and efficiency.

A Manatee County judge’s decision to dismiss a murder charge in a Bradenton shooting is drawing outrage from the victim’s family and local activists. The court ruling cites Florida’s “stand your ...

A new systematic review finds that Black students are still consistently punished more than their white peers, even after a ...

NBC4 will air a special edition of “The Conversation” on Wednesday, June 18, marking five years since the show began its mission to highlight issues of racial inequality. Anchors Matt Barnes and ...

Starting in the late 1990s and 2000s, Wisconsin’s “truth-in-sentencing” law, which requires people convicted of crimes to serve their full prison sentences with longer paroles, resulted in both a ...

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.”— Audre LordeWhen we talk about justice reform in ...

“Allowing the president to unilaterally redefine who gets to be a U.S. citizen in states subject to Trump’s rewriting of the ...

Many Democrats continue to believe that the racism of average Americans — many of whom voted for Barack Obama twice — explains why Donald Trump won. This moralism suits party elites who would rather ...