Progress 2025: Race and Policing

Can Elections Still Help Defund Police?

Efforts to invest in “care, not cops” continue in advance of the 2024 election—albeit at a slower pace than in 2020.

Marianne Dhenin | Jun 20, 2024

Realizing Reparations

An exclusive digital series exploring the leading edges of the reparations ecosystem—and revealing a path toward healing and reconciliation.

Sonali Kolhatkar | Feb 26, 2024

Reparations for Black Americans are past due. Edgar Villanueva makes the case for reparations as an election issue.

Why Reparations Are a 2024 Election Issue

Reparations for Black Americans are past due. Edgar Villanueva makes the case for reparations as an election issue.

| Feb 22, 2024

Becoming Abolitionist: A Lawyer’s Radical Vision

“The only way that we are going to get people to have a decent, equitable future is to completely re-envision this entire rubric that is suffocating and killing our people,” says lawyer Noelle Hanrahan.

Sonali Kolhatkar | Jul 18, 2023

An illustrated representation of "a new set of core values" to create how an infrastructure of care appears as a circle with concentric rings: the outer circle is community health, the next inside circle is interpersonal health, followed by individual health. Illustration by Joe Magee for YES! Media.

The Care(ful) Work of Abolishing Prisons

How to kick our national addiction to prisons.

Amanda Alexander, Deanna Van Buren | Feb 27, 2023

Analysis | #BlackLivesMatter | Abolition | Progress 2025

Abolishing the Nation’s Largest Jail System

L.A. County activists are working to replace violent jails with mental health facilities, and to reallocate funding from incarceration toward social services.

Sonali Kolhatkar | Dec 16, 2022

Opinion | Abolition | Police | Progress 2025

Reimagining Safety and Liberation Without Police

We can work for safety and liberation by investing in community-based alternatives to policing, like mental health programs, public education, restorative justice practices, and economic justice.

Marlene Sanchez | Sep 21, 2022

California Forms a State-Level Reparations Task Force

The first of its kind, the nine-member task force will study and develop reparations proposals in order to start repairing the harm done to African American families and communities by U.S. policies.

Sonali Kolhatkar | Dec 21, 2021

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