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Young People Are Uniting to Fight Atlanta's "Cop City"
"This is every issue we care about wrapped into one."
By Lex McMenamin
Memphis's Special Police Unit Is Over – But It's Only One of Many
Plainclothes units like SCORPION are on the rise again after 2020's policing protests.
By Lex McMenamin
12 Things You May Not Know About Rosa Parks
Parks spent her life “rebelling against second-class citizenship.”
By Jeanne Theoharis
Black Cops Are Still Cops
The Black officers who killed Tyre Nichols are part of a racist, violent system.
By Olayemi Olurin
Atlanta's "Cop City" Is Putting Policing Before the Climate
Weelaunee forest defender Tortugita was killed on January 18.
By Hannah Riley and Micah Herskind
Protests Break Out Over Videos of Police Assault on Tyre Nichols
Nichols, 29, died from a police beating during a traffic stop.
By Lex McMenamin and Aamina Inayat Khan
‘No More Police’ Shows Abolitionists Are the Actual Realists
Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie explain how "we don't actually care about children in this country."
By Lex McMenamin
There's So Much We Don’t Question About Mass Incarceration
We invest billions of dollars into policing and prisons while still insisting we are not safe.
By Olayemi Olurin
Eric Adams's New Homeless Policy Is Messed Up
How is sending cops after the mentally ill and unhoused "care"?
By Lex McMenamin
These Cruel Policies Prevent People in Prison From Receiving Mail
“Mail is a little piece of home,” one 14-year-old says of her letters to her dad.
By Alaina Demopoulos
We Can’t Fight Injustice Without Taking Care of Ourselves
Some jobs require us to encounter profound trauma on a regular basis.
By Chanel Smith
The Real Winner of the Midterms Will Be the Police
Fearmongering about rising crime has dominated the election cycle.
By Kandist Mallett
We Talked to Five First-Time Voters About Crime and Policing
Here’s what they had to say.
By Teen Vogue Editors
How Articles of Sikh Faith Are Criminalized on College Campuses
And how Sikh students are fighting back.
By Anissa Deol
Behind the Urban Legends About Drugs in Your Halloween Candy
This spooky season, “rainbow fentanyl” is the new monster in town.
By Farrell Greenwald Brenner
Some School Districts Are Bringing Police Officers Back
But students are carrying on the fight for police-free schools.
By Neal Morton
From Facing Charges As an Organizer to Winning Elected Office
Justin Jones is now the youngest lawmaker in the Tennessee State Capitol.
By Teen Vogue Staff
Uvalde Parents Are Blockading the School District Office
"It’s like they don’t care,” the father of one victim said.
By Lex McMenamin