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Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees hopes for an equitable city that can ‘live with difference’
When the statue of 18th-century slave trader Edward Colston was torn from its plinth and dumped in Bristol’s harbour during…
How the rise of anti-crime politics caused lasting harm to black Americans
The police killing of George Floyd, and the protest movement that emerged from it, has reinvigorated a national conversation around…
US policing never adjusted to the decades-long decline in urban violence
Princeton University’s Patrick Sharkey is an almost impossibly prolific academic, regularly publishing an array of well-regarded studies on everything from…
Academics are mapping the legacy of slavery in Britain’s cities
For 125 years, a statue of the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston stood in the centre of Bristol, ostensibly to…
Camden, New Jersey, isn’t really a model for police reform
As the streets of US cities erupted in anger over the police killing of George Floyd earlier this summer, a…
How America became over-policed and under-policed at the same time
In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, American cities are grappling with the role of law enforcement…
The reality of US city budgets: Police funding eclipses most other agencies’
Across the US, protesters stand on sidewalks and city streets holding signs, megaphones and petitions. They carry the names of…
British cities face a long overdue reckoning with racist monuments
With Liverpool, it was cotton. For Bristol, it was sugar; for Glasgow, it was tobacco. Then there’s London which, aside…
Why you shouldn’t confuse 2020 for 1968
Rick Perlstein is the doyen of modern American conservative history. Starting in 2001, he has chronicled the rise of the…