Nigerian protesters have taken to the streets to protest the police’s brutal special anti-robbery unit, which they say profiles tech-savvy youths
On Tuesday, Free State farmers set a police van on fire and stormed the Senekal magistrate’s court to get to the cells where two people accused of killing a farm manager were being held. The police took no action. “I want police to treat me like they treat a white man.” This was one wry […]
A recent report shows that racism has cost the US economy $16-trillion in growth over the past two decades. If the financial-services industry wants to show that Black Lives Matter, it needs to rethink how it allocates capital
Musicians break genre boundaries and, through the lyrics about the Los Angeles police officer who killed cops, express black anger
Social media is driving a new – largely anonymous – form of protest in Zimbabwe and Zambia
The 22-year-old fourth seed has spoken out repeatedly in the wake of the protests that swept the United States following the death of George Floyd during a confrontation with police in May
The death of teenager Nathaniel Julius means we urgently need to refuse to allow politicians and police leadership to protect violent officers
Not all police officers are guilty of killing criminals who cross their path, writes SAPS spokesperson Brigadier Vish Naidoo.
What do Covid-19, the killing of George Floyd and the toppling of statues express about the human condition at this time of disease-anxiety and global economic recession?
The conflation of human rights violations and a pandemic leave the most vulnerable marginalised. Equitable and democratic societies are needed to fight against this
Amadou Diallo, a Guinean man, was killed by NYPD officers 21 years ago. Today protesters still invoke his name as they fight for justice
It appears that those tasked with enforcing the law don’t know it.
We condemn the killing of a black Americans, yet women, African foreigners and queer people are regularly abused and killed in SA
In South Africa, police brutality and violence affect black, working- class lives in particular. We must dismantle this systemic oppression
Those on the street say that the usual abuse has intensified under the lockdown
Using assumptions and faulty tools leads to racist conclusions about why so few black students are taking up biological sciences
As Africa mourns George Floyd, we must look in the mirror and address police brutality on our own continent
Kenya has a long history of policing with excessive force, often resulting in unnecessary deaths. Recently at least six people died from police violence during the first 10 days of a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, asked Douglas Kivoi, an expert on police reform and policy, to shed light on the situation. […]
Known as a hub of revolution during the Civil Rights Movement, Atlanta has once again been at the forefront of police brutality protests in the US
The police brutality protests through the eyes of an African in Brooklyn, New York
The protests are rooted not in the pandemic, but in centuries of discrimination
The protests sweeping the United States after the latest police killing of a black man again speak to the ability of images to evoke powerful emotional responses
To end racism, we will have to change the structures from which it draws its mandate, and get rid of liberal and right-wing politicians who give it oxygen while we are being asphyxiated
Police violence and the murder of black people in the United States have provoked outrage and protest around the world, including on the continent. But, why is there so little outrage over police violence in African countries?
The English winger, who now has 17 goals and 17 assists in the Bundesliga this season, joined a host of protests in the German top-flight over the weekend at the death of an unarmed black man in the United States
There is no separating George Floyd’s killing from the struggles black people have faced ever since the first slave ships landed on these shores
Guinea’s response to the coronavirus has exacerbated the country’s existing fault lines
Guidelines can’t regulate the police and military’s use of lethal force and will, in the end, be subordinate
to bad legislation
The family of Collins Khosa is threatening to seek a personal costs order against Police Minister Bheki Cele
Brutality at the hands of those meant to protect us is just too common in our society and is mostly targeted at poor, black people
The Defence Force and the Independent Police Investigative Directorate now say their inquiries into the death of Collins Khosa are not complete
The family of Collins Khosa, who died after police and army personnel assaulted him, says the easing of the lockdown does not spell the end of police abuse of power