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Roland Fryer writes that from Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to the public beatings of Rodney King, Bryant Allen, and Freddie Helms, the relationship between African-Americans and police has an unlovely history. The raw memories of these injustices...

Don't believe the right-wing spin about Harvard's damning study that illustrates how cops target blacks. Philando Castile was killed by a Minneapolis-area police officer while giving him his identification. Like so many other black men, Levar Jones...

The study found no signs of racial biases in police shootings. But there are some big caveats. Does a new study really show that there’s no racial bias in police shootings? That’s how the New York Times reported Harvard economist Roland Fryer’s new...

Racial bias in policing has emerged as one of the most contentious issues of our time. The issue has been difficult to study due to gaps in data, but this week a Harvard economist released a report that used statistical analyses to determine whether...

Gregory Gunn. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile. Terence Crutcher. Those are just a few of the names of black men who were killed in high-profile police shootings in 2016. Now, as the year comes to an end, a new study reveals disturbing data on how much...