Nikkita Oliver is a Seattle-based creative, community organizer, abolitionist, educator, and attorney. Working at the intersections of arts, law,
Washington courts have ruled against sentencing children as though they were adults. So why are local prosecutors asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider those rulings?
Chief Carmen Best's resignation must not distract from the work of overhauling public safety and investing in Black communities.
Young people too often waive their Miranda rights during encounters with law enforcement. We need to fix that.
The county named for Martin Luther King Jr. is investing vast amounts of money in a facility intended to incarcerate children.
Yakima's population is nearly half Latinx, yet it took a tumultuous voting rights battle to open the door to more Latinx elected officials. Now the city council has just one.
