To the Mayor’s Office of Los Angeles, My name is Meron, and I am a reporter with Raise the Voices, an advocacy journalism organization. I am writing to you to discuss the unjust killing of Ezell Ford and the inaction following his death. On August 11th, 2014, Ezell Ford,

Maria Kalesnikava is a Belarusian musician and political activist, who is a member of the Coordination Council Presidium which was formed in 2020 as a result of 2020 Belarusian post-election protests. Two actions have changed the life of Maria: the first one – to endorse the opposition candidate for the president

(Оппозиции, Координационный. Создание Координационного Совета: Итоги Пресс-Конференции, 18 Aug. 2020, rada.vision/sozdanie-koordinacyonnogo-soveta.) Olga Kovalkova, also known as Volha Kovalkova, is a Belarusian politician who wants to be a presidential candidate, even though she admits there is no real election in Belarus. She is a co-chairman for the Belarusian Christian

The recent increase in peaceful protests against police brutality clearly shows that the American people want change, and the Minneapolis City Council attempted to initiate that change by revamping the policing structure last June. However, the Minneapolis Charter Commission, a group of 15 people appointed by the Hennepin District Court,

Written by Starlene Parris & Kasey Michaud Approximately 15% of all people living in state prisons experience a serious mental illness. What happens to these people? They are left to rot in prison, fighting against their own minds and a broken system they don’t fully understand. If you are

Immigrant Children Held Illegally in US Hotels On July 22, the Associated Press (AP) reported that the Trump Administration is detaining immigrant children in three Hampton Inn & Suite Hotels, particularly in El Paso and McAllen, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona. When Roberto Lopez of the Texas Civil Rights Project visited

THE BIG PICTURE: As COVID-19 escalates, prisons across the United States are resorting to solitary confinement as a means of containing the virus. Within weeks, the number of isolated inmates surged from 60,000 inmates to a staggering 300,000, suggesting that solitary confinement is headed toward a path of

When the US killed Iranian General Quasem Soleimani in an airstrike in Iraq at the start of this year, most press coverage focused on the resulting rise in tensions and potential repercussion for US-Iranian relations. Yet General Soleimani, the former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was not the