African American & Police

Matt Agorist, The Truth About Police Violence Against Minorities, What #BlackLivesMatter Isn’t Talking About, The Free Thought Project (Sept. 6, 2015), http://thefreethoughtproject.com/truth-police-violence-blacklivematter-telling/.

Black Radical Congress, Contemporary Police Brutality and Misconduct: A Continuation of the Legacy of Racial Violence, Civil Rights Teaching (Mar. 21, 2001), http://civilrightsteaching.org/resource/contemporary-police-brutality/.

Equal Justice Initiative, A History of Racial Injustice (2014), http://racialinjustice.eji.org/timeline/.

Nichelle Smith, Violence Against Blacks Recalls Civil-Rights Era, USA Today (Feb. 7, 2016), http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/02/07/black-history-month-violence/79837270/.

Josue Zapata, A History of American Violence: Police, All Day Everyday (Apr. 6, 2016), http://www.alldayeveryday.com/articles/a-history-of-american-violence-police.

Race & Criminal Justice

ACLU, Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice (2016), https://www.aclu.org/search/%20?f%5B0%5D=field_issues%3A67. 

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2d ed. 2012), http://www.vanderbilt.edu/ctp/The_New_Jim_Crow.pdf.

Bethonie Butler, Ava DuVernay’s Netflix Film “13th” Reveals How Mass Incarceration is an Extension of Slavery, The Washington Post (Oct. 6, 2016), https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/10/06/ava-duvernays-netflix-film-13th-reveals-how-mass-incarceration-is-an-extension-of-slavery/?utm_term=.b1ac85d4dde8.

Charles R. Epp, Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship (2014).

Edwin Grimsley, African American Wrongful Convictions Throughout History, Innocence Project (Feb. 28, 2013), http://www.innocenceproject.org/african-american-wrongful-convictions-throughout-history/.

Andrew Kahn & Chris Kirk, What It’s Like to Be Black in the Criminal Justice System, Slate (Aug. 9, 2015), http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/08/racial_disparities_in_the_criminal_justice_system_eight_charts_illustrating.html. 

Pamela Kruger, Netflix’s “13th” Explores “Modern Slavery” in Incendiary New Documentary, Fortune (Oct. 6, 2016), http://fortune.com/2016/10/06/13th-netflix-documentary-ava-duvernay/.

Marc Maurer, Justice for All? Challenging Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System, American Bar Association (Jan. 2010), http://www.americanbar.org/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/human_rights_vol37_2010/fall2010/justice_for_all_challenging_racial_disparities_criminal_justice_system.html. 

Marc Mauer, The Crisis of the Young African American Male and the Criminal Justice System, The Sentencing Project (Apr. 15-16, 1999), http://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Crisis-of-the-Young-African-American-Male-and-the-Criminal-Justice-System.pdf.