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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Biko Mandela Gray’s Book, “Black Life Matter”
08 Mar 2023
This week’s featured author is Biko Mandela Gray. Gray is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. His book is Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject.
John Parker
Capitalism in Black and Blue
08 Feb 2023
Policing is inextricably linked to racism and to capitalism.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio December 2, 2022
02 Dec 2022
The NYPD Gang Database profiles communities of color, Cleveland's mayor breaks a campaign promise for community control of police, and a conversation on which protests are considered legitimate, and…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Activists Demand Report on the NYPD Gang Database
02 Dec 2022
Rigodis Appling has been a public defender in Manhattan for 17 years. She is currently working in the Special Litigation and Community Justice Unit at The Legal Aid Society. She is also a founding…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio November 18, 2022
18 Nov 2022
The electoral process furthers the interest of capital and subverts what the people want. A manufactured crime panic enhances the power of the police and perpetuates racist politics.
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.
Alec Karakatsanis
Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating “Copaganda”
27 Jul 2022
US police departments spend tens of millions of dollars every year to manipulate the news, flooding the discourse with “copaganda.” These aggressive tactics give the public a distorted view of what…
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.…
Paul Butler
Policing in the US is Not About Enforcing Law. It’s About Enforcing White Supremacy
03 Jun 2020
If we had something approaching equal justice, would we still even be the United States? “Mr. Floyd was not human to these officers.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
PROP Calls for Free Mass Transit for NYC Poor
06 Mar 2018
“Our position is that the city should provide free fares to low income people,” said Robert Gangi, of the Police Reform Organizing Project, who notes that 85 to 90 percent of the 2