By David McDaniels August 6, 2021 It is past time to end the romanticization of Supreme Court decisions. While historic, humanity-affirming cases are vital for advancing human and civil rights, they are equally used to quiet demands for structural change and pacify...
By Chris Mansa LaPorte and Hana Porter August 3, 2021 Brown v. Board made it illegal to segregate schools based solely on race, but the promise of racial equity in education remains unfulfilled in many parts of the country, including the largest school district in...
In 1989, Graham v. Connor again tested the possibilities for police accountability at the Supreme Court. The standard of “objectively reasonable” became the benchmark for police decision-making, but as Harbani highlights in her poem, “the question is whether an...
The newly launched Dicta poetry exhibit unearths the persistence of injustice and highlights, among other injustices, the lack of genuine desire for police accountability. Two poems in particular, LA v. Lyons and Graham v. Connor, illustrate the legacy of police...
On June 21, 2021, a federal judge dismissed all claims against Federal officials in the Black Lives Matter D.C., et al. v. Trump, et al. case where local and federal law enforcement attacked protestors with clubs, shot them with rubber bullets, and tear-gassed them....
By David McDaniels June 14, 2021 Facial recognition is far from the measure of effective justice it is presented to be by police departments and large tech developers. It is regarded as the future of policing and a step away from racial profiling. The New York Police...
