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Justin Fenton , Ben Conarck , Pamela Wood
Forensic Failures: 36 Police-Custody Deaths Should Have Been Ruled a Homicide, Audit Finds
28 May 2025
Independent audit finds patterns of racial, pro-police bias in Maryland’s chief medical examiner’s office.
Clau O'Brien Moscoso
Dollarization in Ecuador: How the Safest Country in Latin America Became a Money Laundering Transnational Crime Hub
29 Jan 2025
Ecuador was once a safe country. However, U.S. interference, the rise of neoliberal economic policies, the dollarization of its currency, and enhanced state repression have combined to worsen the…
Erica Caines
Bound by Imperialism: Trinidad’s Role in U.S. Agenda
08 Jan 2025
Trinidad is experiencing an unprecedented crime wave. The state has responded by militarizing the police and loosening restrictions on their actions. To understand these mechanisms, one must look at…
Ujima People’s Progress Party
Ujima People’s Progress Party Statement on Governor Wes Moore’s Marijuana Conviction Pardons
26 Jun 2024
Maryland Governor Wes Moore recently issued pardons for over 175,000 people in a show of "progress" in criminal justice reform. But these pardons barely scratch the surface of the destruction of…
Gus Griffin
O.J. Simpson and Understanding the Black Support He Never Deserved
17 Apr 2024
O.J. Simpson's acquittal in one of the most infamous murder trials of the 20th century was celebrated as a symbolic win for the Black community against an oppressive system. However, O.J. was…
Jamiles Lartey
These States Are Once Again Embracing ‘Tough-on-Crime’ Laws
19 Mar 2024
Louisiana is one of several states passing punitive measures in response to fears stoked by orchestrated crime panics.
Max Parthas
The Evolution of Slavery
07 Feb 2024
In the U.S., a nation built on the enslavement and exploitation of humans, the system of slavery cannot be destroyed. It has merely changed from one form to another.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio September 22, 2023
22 Sep 2023
U.S. hostility towards China, the Beloved Community and the effort to end violence, and partisan gerrymandering and its impact on voting rights.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Ending Violence with the Beloved Community in Chicago
22 Sep 2023
Orion Meadows is a non-violence trainer with Institute for Nonviolence Chicago.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
A Manufactured Crime Panic in New York
18 Nov 2022
Ashoka Jegroo is a multimedia journalist who reports on protests and policing.