Police killings of civilians in the US have been undercounted by more than half in official statistics

Research found that police officers killed more than 30,000 people from 1980 to 2018 – 17,000 more than official federal data suggests.

Fablina Sharara, Researcher at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington • conversation
Oct. 5, 2021 • ~5 min

American society teaches everyone to be racist – but you can rewrite subconscious stereotypes

If you’re American – regardless of the color of your skin – racism structures how you think. Changing the system should change these implicit biases.

R. Nathan Pipitone, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Florida Gulf Coast University • conversation
Sept. 17, 2020 • ~10 min

George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery deaths: Racism causes life-threatening conditions for black men every day

Police killings of black men gain widespread attention, but black men's life-and-death issues are ignored on a daily basis, a physician who studies health gaps explains.

Shervin Assari, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Michigan • conversation
June 1, 2020 • ~11 min

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