The 'socially liberal but fiscally conservative' position is a part of the kyriarchy. Equality requires investment.

In November 2018 Florida police officers shot and killed a black psychiatric patient inside the hospital.

A black Texas graduate student was asked to leave a public library by both the library manager and the police.

In November 2018 a black female police officer in Tennessee filed a lawsuit alleging racial and gender discrimination against the department for which she works.

In November 2018 an Illinois police officer shot and killed a black man who had detained an active shooter.

In September 2018 a Wisconsin high school called police on a black student who stood up for herself after experiencing unaddressed racism.

In October 2018 a Missouri hospital filed charges against a black woman who was beaten by one of their security guards in July.

In August 2018 a Kansas officer detained a black man as he was moving into his new home.

In September 2018, Georgia pre-school teachers tied up and threatened black students.

In September 2018 a Florida former police chief pled guilty to framing black residents for burglaries to increase his department’s clearance rate.

In August 2018 Chicago police participated in a sting using a bait truck filled with expensive shoes in a low income predominately black neighborhood.

In June 2018, the Michigan Department of Education proposed changes to social studies standards, which would erase gay rights, Roe v. Wade, and the KKK.

Dehumanization is the root of violence and injustice in the United States.

In June of 2018 slavery exists in the United States.

Reporting in June 2018 revealed that a black legislator in Ohio had been stopped multiple times while attempting to enter the statehouse, her workplace, including once being told that she doesn’t “look like a legislator.”

In May 2018 a police officer in Virginia shot and killed an unarmed, possibly mentally ill, black man.

White women use white men (i.e. police officers) to enact their white supremacy.

In May 2018 a police officer in California followed a black man for ten minutes to see who was in his car.

Income inequality is a key form of marginalization within the kyriarchy: every marginalized group is affected.

America's violent culture is more pervasive than mental illness or video games. We're having the wrong discussion.

In March 2018 four black police officers in Arkansas filed a lawsuit claiming that their police department and chief of police engaged in racist discrimination including retaliation for their complaints.

A March 2018 memo reveals that the US Department of Housing and Urban Development is removing sustainability, consumer protection, and anti-discrimination from its mission statement.

A report released in February 2018, the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Commission, found that gains on poverty and racial justice have been stalled or reversed.

For Black History Month, we explore the marginalization of black neighborhoods.

In February 2018 two black men in Missouri were exonerated after police released surveillance video showing, six months later, that they were the victims instead of the perpetrators in a robbery.

In January 2018 a nationally syndicated radio host argued that white people in the United States are experiencing a “cultural genocide.”

In January 2018 a Mississippi black woman was indicted for second-degree murder after her infant died.

In January 2018 a state senator in South Dakota, while interrupting an interfaith gathering at the state capitol, advocated banning Muslim individuals from traveling to the US.

In January 2018 a Wisconsin private school homework assignment asked for three good reasons for slavery.

In December 2017 a report on groups that bail poor people out of jail noted an increase in higher bail amounts in recent years, as well as bail amounts forcing poor people to stay in jail before their court date.

In December 2017 the UN’s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights found a shocking degree of poverty is parts of rural Alabama.

In December 2017 the NAACP received reports of voter suppression during a special election for a senate race in Alabama.

In October 2017 nurses returning from Puerto Rico blamed the federal government for a slow response to the humanitarian crisis that resulted from Hurricane Maria five weeks earlier.

After a school shooting in South Carolina in October 2017, a police captain said that the incident was not an example of domestic terrorism because the shooter and all of the victims were white.

In October 2017 the Supreme Court of Louisiana denied a man’s right to appeal for a lack of a lawyer because, they said, his request for lawyer during interrogation was ambiguous.

In October 2017 dark skinned New York strippers went on strike protesting discrimination within the clubs in which they work.

In September 2017 a study in Wisconsin found that voter ID laws in the state potentially deterred nearly 17,000 individuals from voting.

Data released by the Justice Department in September 2017 revealed an increasing gap of incarceration rates between black and white youth.

In September 2017 the Department of Homeland Security released a new rule to include social media information in the files of all individuals who have become naturalized citizens or who hold a green card.

In September 2017 a New York prosecutor in the case of an officer accused of excessive force, who was found to be guilty of excessive force by the Civilian Complaint Review Board, recommended that the officer forfeit 10 vacation days.

A Florida first grade student was reprimanded in front of classmates after taking a knee during the Pledge of Allegiance in September 2017.

In September 2017 a fifth grade teacher in South Carolina, as part of a lesson on Reconstruction, assigned students to consider the justification of KKK members.

An undocumented man was detained and later deported to Mexico, only to be murdered - likely by the same gangs that his family had fled from to enter the United States - six months later in September 2017.

In September 2017 an Hispanic couple in Oregon were racially profiled as undocumented immigrants.

In September 2017 an officer shot and killed a deaf Hispanic man.

In September 2017 an infant with undocumented parents needed a procedure that could only be done at a hospital that required the parents to go through a border patrol checkpoint. The border patrol agents escorted the ambulance to the hospital to detain the parents for deportation proceedings.

In July 2017 Mississippi police shot and killed a Latino man while attempting to serve an arrest warrant to a neighbor.

In June 2017 Washington police shot and killed a black woman who had called police to report a burglary.

In June 2017 a Wisconsin former police officer was acquitted in the shooting death of a black man.

In June 2017 a Stanford University research study found that black and Hispanic/Latinx drivers were more likely to be searched, ticketed, and arrested than white drivers.

According to a June 2017 advocacy organization’s report, black women in the United States face structural barriers to advancement of all sorts.

In June 2017 a Georgia police officer used excessive force on a homeless black woman who may suffer from mental illness.

In April 2017 Massachusetts black students were targeted in a school dress code crackdown that seemed to focus on black hairstyles.

In April 2017 an officer who was fired for excessive use of force was reinstated due to an arbitration process built into the police officer’s union contract.

In February 2017 the US Attorney General stated that the Department of Justice will “pull back” on investigating and suing police departments for violations of citizens' civil rights.

A Texas police chief announced a lower number of reports of rape and violent crime by Hispanics during the period between January and March 2017, and he noted that this is a reduction compared to the previous year.

A change in Missouri law that went into effect in January 2017 could be applied to students, increasing the effects of the school-to-prison pipeline.