Tag Archives: Missouri

The news media are a major presence in the Baltimore riots. Are they providing an accurate picture of what's going on?

Nearly a quarter of US bridges are functionally obsolete or structurally deficient. Why does it take so long to repair a bridge? There are better ways to get these projects underway.

Three social facts that guarantee it won’t be long before the nation’s attention focuses on another divided community or insensitive Tweet that yet again reveals the permanence of racism.

The use of body cams by police in Rialto, California led to a 60 percent drop in use of police force with complaints against police officers falling by almost 90 percent. The only obstacle preventing every police department from making cameras standard is cost — $300 to $400 per unit and oversight of video recordings.

A hashtag campaign confronts the racial biases in the images we see and challenges the opinions we embrace of young, black Americans. This is social media at its best, offering a real-time counter-narrative to the media’s typically negative and stereotypical imagery of young black people as something to be feared.