Police Shootings

A collection of surveillance and body-camera footage offers a raw look at the 2018 shooting of Harith Augustus, and at the immediate attempts to shape the story.

The two tragedies make for easy inferences about the importance of commemoration. But this is not how trauma works.

With shootings in the city on the rise, trust in the police has nearly bottomed out.

After years of impunity, the police in Vallejo, California, took over the city’s politics and threatened its people.

It’s both necessary and, at this point, pedestrian to observe that policing in this country is mediated by race.

The screenwriter’s new film is about a first date that goes terribly wrong when a police officer is accidentally shot. “We create the heroes we need,” Waithe tells Jelani Cobb.

The Met’s social-media manager, Kimberly Drew, on the evolution of her popular blog, Black Contemporary Art.

His mother, Lezley McSpadden, goes on tour to promote her memoir, about losing her son in a police shooting.

A new kind of movement found its moment. What will its future be?