Instead of forming a new commission to investigate police reform, why doesn't President Obama take a second look at the rejected recommendations of the 1968 Kerner Commission? Read more →

Beacon authors respond to a week of intense protest in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager killed by a police officer. Read more →

Noliwe M. Rooks, author of White Money/Black Power, explores the complex questions of race and poverty raised by homeless child Dasani, subject of the recent New York Times "Invisible Child" series. Read more →