State Sanctioned
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Spring Valley High
Color of Change – Online Petition – Prosecute Officer Shields and Drop the Charges Against Spring Valley High Students
Reliance on Police Cannot Be Consistent With What We Want to Happen in Public Schools (interview with Kimberle Crenshaw), Real Independent News and Film, November 5th, 2015
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No One Deserves Abuse: Obedience and Spring Valley High, Huffington Post, November 5th, 2015
An Open Letter to Every Teacher Who Has a Told a Student to Put Away Their Cell Phone, Huffington Post, November 3rd, 2015
Grieving shouldn’t be a privilege, Al-Jazeera America, October 30th, 2015
Violent School Arrest Shows Weakness of South Carolina Authorities, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 30th, 2015
Black Women Leaders Outraged by Police Violence Against South Carolina Student, San Francisco Bay View, October 29th, 2015
Guilty of Being a Black Girl: The Mundane Terror of Police Violence in Schools, The Hampton Institute, October 29th, 2015
No, the Victim of #AssaultAtSpringValley is Not an Orphan, Colorlines, October 29th, 2015
Assault at Spring Valley High Brings Attention to Police in Schools – Are Black Students a Target? Inquisitr, October 29th, 2015 (archived)
Ben Fields is One Problem, and the Silent Black Male Administrator May Be Another, The Feminist Wire, October 28th, 2015
Violent South Carolina High School Arrest Adds to ‘School to Prison’ Pipeline Debate, Los Angeles Times, October 27th, 2015
For Black Girls, Teenage Behavior is Criminal, Take Part, October 27th, 2015 (archived)
A South Carolina Cop Brutally Manhandles Young Black Girl and Nobody Flinches; We Have a Problem, Daily Kos, October 26th, 2015
What You Need to Know About #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh, Advancement Project, undated October, 2015 (archived)
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