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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio January 27, 2023
27 Jan 2023
Police killings increase, Nicaragua, and Cuba in Africa
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Record Number of Police Killings in 2022
27 Jan 2023
Samuel Sinyangwe is founder of the Mapping Police Violence Project.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio September 30, 2022
30 Sep 2022
The undercount of communities of color worsened in the 2020 census, the 20th commemoration of Gabriel's Rebellion at the African Burial Ground in Richmond, Virginia, and the quest for justice for…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Qualified Immunity for Police and the Death of Andrew Joseph III
30 Sep 2022
Dr. Melina Abdullah is Co-Founder and Director of Black Lives Matter Grassroots. She joins us from Los Angeles to discuss the 2014 death of Andrew Joseph III and the issue of qualified immunity for…
Netfa Freeman
Biden Kills the Demand to Defund Police
08 Apr 2022
The same people who wanted to defund policing voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden. But Biden not only rejects cutting police budgets but announced a proposal to give police departments $30 billion.…
Netfa Freeman
The US Political Elite Gives Cover to the Brutal US Police State
09 Feb 2022
The US political elite and their elite press are using the fraudulent claims about a “crime wave” as an ideological offensive, a backlash, against the large-scale protest movements over the pas
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Covid Funds Spent on Police and Prisons
22 Sep 2021
Systemic racism and weak movement politics allow states and cities to spend relief funds on police and jails.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Truth About Defunding Police
09 Jun 2021
“Defunding” the police has often turned out to be an accounting trick, but community control of police – a righteous demand – must also ensure that all government functions address human n
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Emerging Movement for Police and Prison Abolition
12 May 2021
In the past year or two, the proposition of defunding or abolishing police and prisons has travelled from incarcerated-activist networks into mainstream conversations.