| Black Agenda Report

Jeff Haas and Dennis Cunningham
The Torture Machine, Racism and Violence in Chicago
19 Feb 2020
Chicago’s torture machine was both a real mechanism to produce confessions through pain, and a racist political instrument.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Catch the “‘F’ the Police” Train
21 Jan 2020
On January 31 activists plan to confront New York City cops in protests over high transit fares and police brutality, under the banner “F.T.P,” according to Shannon Jones, of Bronx
Netfa Freeman
The US Surges Into A Police State While Media White Out Structural Racism
08 Jan 2020
Trump wants to “surge” against urban Black and brown Americans in the same way that the US surged against Iraq and Afghanistan.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
New York Activists Battle Police Brutality Underground: Shannon Jones Speaks
26 Nov 2019
Over 1,000 protesters recently confronted police repression and high subway fares at demonstrations in Brooklyn, under the banner “F.T.P.” Shannon Jones, of Bronxites for NYPD Acco
Nida Khan
When Even The FBI Can’t Hold Police Accountable, How Can Anyone Else?
20 Nov 2019
A brutal New Jersey police chief who routinely spouted racist slurs and threats was fingered by his own officers, but exonerated in court.
Sikivu Hutchinson
Justice for Atatiana, Abolish Police Domestic Terrorism
16 Oct 2019
Terror in blue: a white cop shoots through a window to kill a young Black woman playing video games with her nephew.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Newark, Other Cities Remember Michael Brown
06 Aug 2019
Communities across the nation will mark the August 9, 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, an outrage that spawned nationwide protests under the umbrella of the Black Lives M
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Institutionalized Impunity for Killer Cops
23 Jul 2019
The cops that caused the deaths of Eric Garner, Sandra Bland and countless other Black people are protected by a “social contract” with the rulers of the nation, sais New York City activist
Shea Howell
Detroit Targeted for Massive Facial Surveillance
17 Jul 2019
A Black elected police commissioner was manhandled at a public meeting for protesting a draconian facial recognition scheme.
Vaidya Gullapalli
Will Chicago Get a Memorial to Honor the Survivors of Police Torture?
26 Jun 2019
The memorial would be a stone monument with the names of those tortured by Burge and his officers and the dates they were tortured.