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Katelyn Burns
NYPD “Jump Out Boys” Have Been Accosting People for Years
05 Aug 2020
When Trump’s federal cops snatched people off the street in Portland, folks cried “fascist,” but that’s an everyday occurrence in Black and brown New York.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Minneapolis Uprising Syllabus” Tells Why That City Sparked National Rebellion
03 Aug 2020
Adam Bledsoe, a professor of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota, has compiled a comprehensive “Minneapolis Uprising Syllabus” containing articles and
Shaka Shakur
A View from the Faultlines of National Oppression and Class Contradictions
29 Jul 2020
They try to kriminalize the righteous rage of the people. “This slaughtering has a historical context and foundation.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
What Are Trump and His Goons Up To?
22 Jul 2020
That’s the question I asked policing and privacy expert Tracy Rosenberg, Executive Director of Media Alliance, and coordinator of Oakland Privacy.
Chip Gibbons
Barr's New Task Force Is a Blatant Attempt to Target Racial Justice Protesters
15 Jul 2020
The attorney general’s theory rests on the premise that there is a set path by which one radicalizes into becoming violent.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
George Floyd Protests Were Result of Years of Organizing
06 Jul 2020
There was nothing spontaneous about the breadth and scope of the protests that rocked the nation last month, said veteran activist Monifa Bandele, a member of the policy table of t
Mark P. Fancher
Is “Black Lives Matter” a Therapeutic Mantra for White Guilt?
01 Jul 2020
Many who took to the streets were out there to engage in a form of mass group therapy.
Adofo Minka
The Self-Confessed Bankruptcy of Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba
01 Jul 2020
Jackson, Mississippi’s Black mayor is celebrated as a “radical” in some quarters, but his cops kill, maim and abuse Black people just like police forces everywhere in the US.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Movement to Abolish the Police Must Place Politics in Command
24 Jun 2020
Community control of the police offers a concrete vision for what the beginnings of police abolition might look like.
Kate Levine and Joanna Schwartz
Hold Prosecutors Accountable, Too
24 Jun 2020
Police violence is tied to other agents in criminal law enforcement, including and especially prosecutors.