Black Lives Matter, Presidential Candidates, Sit Down

ByAdam Zolkover

Popular media coverage of Black Lives Matter in this presidential primary season often portrays activists in the movement as a less than civil bunch. Reporters tend to focus on their loudest, not their most civil, tactics. The group got a lot of attention, for example, for their action this past August 8, in which activists…

Hands Up, Don’t Shoot and Other Discourses of Civility

ByAdam Zolkover

Do civil disobedience and public protest have a part to play in a civil political culture? The question seems like a strange one following more than six months of highly visible, sometimes violent protests that began in August 2014 with the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and that were fueled by the…