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Elena Kiejliches, featured on 'Snapped' in 2004, reveals how her story was twisted to perpetuate harmful stereotypes about women's violence.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

'It's not a story—it's a life:' A look at Snapped, from the inside

by Elena Kiejliches and Molly Hagan November 21, 2023November 21, 2023

"True crime" relies on the manipulation and simplification of facts to create entertaining narratives. Elena Kiejliches, who was featured on Snapped in 2004, reveals how her story was twisted to perpetuate harmful stereotypes about women's violence.

In this November 2005 file photo, Larry Greene, public information director of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, demonstrates how a curtain is pulled between the death chamber and witness room at the prison in Lucasville, Ohio. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File) Author Keith LaMar's execution date was moved to 2027 after 30 years on Death Row in Ohio, awaiting the death penalty.
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

A Death Row Reprieve: One man's bittersweet reflection

by Keith LaMar November 16, 2023November 15, 2023
Young people gather during a rally held by Fairness Campaign to advance LGBTQ rights, Wednesday, February 19, 2020, in the Rotunda at the State Capitol, Frankfort, Kentucky. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston) Finding hope and solidarity for LGBTQ Kentucky youth. A trans student on how they and other LGBTQ Kentucky youth are dealing with the mental health fallout of Senate Bill 150 in schools.
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

For LGBTQ+ young Kentuckians, community matters for mental health

by Ray Loux September 14, 2023November 13, 2023
Dakerri Rhone of the Human Rights Campaign speaks during a news conference held by the Human Rights Campaign to draw attention to anti-drag bills in the Tennessee legislature, on Tuesday, February 14, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee. (John Amis/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign) The mental health toll of anti-LGBTQ+ bills on Tennessee students. Tennessee has passed a record number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills attacking students' rights, mental health, and well-being.
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

LGBTQ+ students in Tennessee have never been more terrified

by Lauren Barton September 14, 2023November 13, 2023
Henry Drake was convicted for a 1975 murder he didn’t commit—twice. Even after another man confessed to the crime, he still spent 12 years on Death Row seeking exoneration and battling the classism and legal misconduct of Georgia's judicial system.
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

A Close Shave with Death

by Lillah Lawson September 1, 2023September 1, 2023
Federal receiver Robert Sillen in the prison yard at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California, on June 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Prop 66 doesn't dismantle California's Death Row—it expedites our executions

by Timothy James Young August 30, 2023August 29, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

A Man Alone

by Ahmed Jallow, The Assembly July 11, 2023June 29, 2023
Demonstrators march near Atlanta police during a protest over plans to build a new police training center, Thursday, March 9, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz) Cop City protestors now face felony stalking, intimidation, and domestic terrorism charges.
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Cop City protesters face felony charges for distributing flyers

by Candice Bernd, Truthout May 8, 2023May 8, 2023
Unlike the NBC show, real life night court "is a place you can go to see that as a society we don't care about poor people. You’re in this microcosm of all the institutions that failed our clients."
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Night Court: New(ish) Sitcom, Same Copaganda

by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg April 20, 2023November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Contradictions and Convictions: Megan Thee Stallion and why abolition can't wait

by Da'Shaun Harrison February 14, 2023December 1, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Cop City, Gentrification, and Young Thug: Atlanta's uneven war over greenspace in 'The City of the Forest'

by Justin A. Davis February 9, 2023December 1, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

How 'the shadow of state abandonment' fostered then foiled Young Thug's YSL

by Justin A. Davis February 9, 2023December 14, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

'Justifiable police homicide' and the ruse of American justice

by Da'Shaun Harrison, Joy James and Samaria Rice March 8, 2022November 14, 2023
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Anita Hill: Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court signals historic change 

by Anita Hill February 28, 2022July 1, 2022
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Roe is down. Keep supporting these abortion funds.

by Scalawag Team January 22, 2022June 24, 2022
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

When reparations grow from the grassroots

by Ray Levy Uyeda, YES! Magazine January 11, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Florida's legacy of slow-rolling parole keeps thousands of people behind bars—some, for decades past their eligibility date

by Justin Garcia October 28, 2021March 9, 2022
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Mississippi's childhood lead exposure interventions don't do enough for kids

by Erica Hensley October 5, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

'A lifetime of damage' on a creosote plume in Houston's Fifth Ward

by Xander Peters August 3, 2021August 2, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Qualified Immunity: How 'ordinary police work' tramples civil rights

by Lyle C. May June 23, 2021October 18, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Prostitution was already illegal in Louisiana. Then Republicans crafted an even more damning law used to target trans sex workers.

by Matt Nadel June 1, 2021April 20, 2022
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Meet the 5 women uprooting white beauty standards and white supremacy in West Virginia

by Crystal Good May 11, 2021May 12, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Bad medicine in Louisiana prisons

by Xander Adams May 5, 2021April 13, 2022
Posted inARTS & SOUL

A Prophet Without Eyes: Pauli Murray's Moment

by Brenna M. Casey April 30, 2021October 6, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

In Arkansas, falling behind on rent could mean jail time

by Maya Miller & Ellis Simani, ProPublica; & Benjamin Hardy, Arkansas Nonprofit News Network March 22, 2021March 26, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Alabama taxpayers have paid $4 billion toward a policy that Governor Ivey refuses to bring home

by Katherine Webb-Hehn March 16, 2021March 29, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The majority of Alabamians want Medicaid expansion

by Katherine Webb-Hehn March 15, 2021March 29, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

How a Black and Latinx coalition turned utilities back on in LaGrange

by Lewis Raven Wallace February 19, 2021February 19, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

A new administration still leaves Southern abortion funders with political and cultural barriers

by Clare Busch February 9, 2021February 11, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

North Carolina's Racial Justice Act can remove prisoners from death row. But is life without parole actual justice?

by Lyle C. May October 26, 2020

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