Police officers first deployed the earsplitting beeps against protesters more than a decade ago in Pittsburgh: Painfully loud noises emitted from a powerful speaker atop a police vehicle, a crowd-control device known informally as a “sound cannon.” Since then the items, called Long Range Acoustic Devices, or LRADs, have provided a soundtrack to marches and […]
Good morning. The past year has been momentous for so many reasons it’s hard to even begin to describe them. A harsh spotlight has been cast on deep inequities in American life and on the myriad ways that racism and hatred afflict our nation. But if there’s one thing I hope we carry forward, it […]
By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs The trial of Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd is unusual for many reasons: It is being livestreamed from Minneapolis, attendance is severely limited because of the coronavirus and the public’s interest in the case may make this one of the highest-profile trials in recent memory. Closing arguments are expected […]
American deaths from misuse of substances, including alcohol, have increased over the past two decades, but not uniformly across various demographic groups. Overall rates of alcohol abuse and related deaths have consistently and significantly increased for white non-Hispanic Americans, while Black Americans have experienced a much slower and less significant incline, and some other groups […]
At Main Street Dear Diary: In fall 1969, I was a college freshman commuting from Bayside into Manhattan via bus and subway. On one particular September morning, as I took my usual seat on the Q13, I noticed an attractive yet unfamiliar man sitting at the back of the bus and wrestling with an armload […]
INDIANAPOLIS — For decades now, Sikhs have come by the thousands to Central Indiana seeking good jobs, quiet lives and affordable homes. Some became doctors or police officers, but many others worked as truckers or in warehouses, toiling overnight and out of the public eye to support their families. They were people like Jaswinder Singh, […]
Jianna Curbelo attends a career-focused public high school in New York City, works at McDonald’s and lives in the Bronx with her unemployed mother, who did not graduate from college. So when her high-school counselor and her Ph.D.-educated aunt urged her to apply to Cornell, on her path to becoming a veterinarian, she had her […]
Phil Colbert was on his way to meet his father for lunch before his shift at an Arizona auto dealership in 2019 when he saw the flashing lights of a sheriff’s patrol car in his mirror. He made sure his hands were on the steering wheel, planted at 10 and 2 as his parents had […]
CHICAGO (REUTERS) – Hundreds marched through the streets of Chicago on Friday (April 16) to protest the police shooting of Adam Toledo, a day after the city released a graphic video of a police officer shooting and killing the 13-year-old Latino boy in an alley two weeks ago. Demonstrators chanted “Hands up, don’t shoot!” and […]
INDIANAPOLIS (REUTERS) – The 19-year-old gunman who killed eight workers and himself at an Indianapolis FedEx centre was a former employee who was placed under psychiatric detention last year after his mother reported concerns he might commit “suicide by cop”, police and FBI said. Four members of the Sikh religious community – three women and a […]