criminal justice reform

Christian leaders are calling for prayer, peace and reform after the release of video footage showing Memphis, Tenn., police officers brutally beating 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, who died three days later.

Senator Tim Scott's police reform bill was blocked by the Senate this week.

In the wake of mounting racial injustice, Warner Brothers has opened up access to its new film, Just Mercy, for free for the next month across many popular streaming services.

May 25 was the day when the world became aware of a reality that already existed. African slaves were first imported into what we know as America four hundred years earlier. Racial minorities have been dealing with discrimination for centuries. If you’re like most of us, you wish we were making more progress than we are on this front.

On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order that would ban police officers from using chokeholds in most situations and would establish a database to track police officers who use or have used excessive force.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn, a veteran of the Civil Rights movement, worries that calls to defund or abolish the police could “hijack the momentum to make serious police reforms in the wake of George Floyd’s death.” As he put it, “if you mean reimagining policing, say that.”

Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, a man killed while in police custody, implored Congress on Wednesday to reform the police.