Released in 1965, the Moynihan Report traced the severe social and economic distress of poor urban African Americans to high rates of single-parenthood. Against...

The tradition of protest has been present in every generation of Negroes since the seventeenth century. During slavery hundreds of petitions for freedom were ap...

The Black Power movement emerged as a reaction to lagging, uneven progress toward equality and as a challenge to the assimilationist theme of the Civil Rights m...

(2020). ‘Softening’ school resource officers: the extension of police presence in schools in an era of Black Lives Matter, school shootings, and rising inequality. Race Ethnicity and Education: Vol....

Exposing the deeply harmful impact of street-style policing on urban high school students

The number of school resource officers (SROs) placed at schools has increased dramatically. These officers are tasked with making schools safer, yet the effect ...

There have been an increasing number of incidents in which school resource officers (SRO) have been used to manage student disciplinary issues with disastrous r...

Effects are larger when those killed by police are unarmed

As police officers have become increasingly common in U.S. public schools, their role in school discipline has often expanded. While there is growing public debate about the consequences of police...