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Police Abolitionists Are Building a Dispatch App To Replace 911
With police killings reaching record highs, Raheem is helping activists respond to emergencies without calling the cops.
How to Fight Police Violence Beyond Just Posting About It
If you want to help push back against police brutality, there are plenty of ways to take your politics from your phone into the real world.
5 Unthinkable Ideas That Would Change the World
VICE Magazine's Unthinkable Ideas issue explores revolutionary ideas that could alter our world completely.
How to Build a Global Abolition Movement
The carceral state is on the rise around the world, and ending it will require a movement that recognizes the internationalism of policing, even if, as one activist put it, "My pigs are not your pigs."
‘Time’ Captures the Devastating Losses Caused By Mass Incarceration
Garrett Bradley's new documentary follows Sibil ‘Fox Rich’ Richardson as she fights for the release of her incarcerated husband, illuminating one of the 2.3 million faces behind America's prison industrial complex.
The Statue of Liberty Was Originally Intended to Celebrate the End of American Slavery
We spoke with Ed Berenson, author of The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story, about the little-known origins of the iconic statue in New York Harbor.
New York City's Surprising Role Funding Slavery and Profiting Off the Civil War
I talked to author John Strausbaugh about his new book, which details how "New York was arguably the most pro-South, pro-slavery city in the North," during the Civil War.
Executions Across the World Hit a 25-Year High in 2015
A new Amnesty International report found that 1,634 people were executed in 2015 – 50 percent more than were recorded in the previous year.