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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Notes Toward a National Defense Organization Against Racism and Political Repression, 1973
10 Dec 2020
Few records survive of the birth of a national anti-police repression organization formed by supporters of Angela Davis – but government spies preserved Davis’ speech.
Adofo Minka
Spies of Mississippi: Mayor Lumumba’s Cops Put Public Under Spyglass
25 Nov 2020
Jackson’s supposedly “radical” Black mayor wants to make surveillance great again in Mississippi.
Carroll Bogert
Superpredator: The Media Myth That Demonized a Generation of Black Youth
25 Nov 2020
By the end of the 90s corporate journalists were feverishly dehumanizing young blacks in news stories, editorials and commentaries.
Flint Taylor
Torture Survivor Jackie Wilson Exonerated in Pandemic Murder Trial
18 Nov 2020
Wilson’s 40-year ordeal has ended, but his attorneys hope to make Chicago prosecutors pay for their crimes.
Bree Newsome Bass
Black Cops Don’t Make Policing Any Less Anti-Black
11 Nov 2020
The idea that we can resolve racism by integrating a fundamentally anti-Black institution is the most absurd notion of all.
Jinette Jimenez and Anya Milberg
Cops Kill People in Psychiatric Crisis
04 Nov 2020
The Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP), a New York City-based policy analysis and advocacy organization, recently released a report
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Police “Reform” = Counterinsurgency
03 Nov 2020
Attempts to “reform” the police through body cameras, so-called “community” policing and other such measures “all presume the continued presence of police” in oppressed communities, said Dy
Sam Biddle
Twitter Surveillance Startup Targets Communities of Color for Cops
28 Oct 2020
Insiders say Dataminr’s “algorithmic” Twitter search involves human staffers perpetuating confirmation biases, searching specific neighborhoods, streets, and even housing complexes for crime.
BBC staff
Nigeria SARS Protests: Amnesty Warns of “Escalating Attacks”
21 Oct 2020
Protests mount against Africa’s most populous nation’s most feared police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
by Signatories from the Use of Force Community Working Group
A Public Letter to Mayor Lightfoot: A Call for Leadership
21 Oct 2020
The Chicago Police Department’s new use-of-force policy input process is a sham, designed only to create the illusion of community engagement.