“In terms of the front pages of major newspapers in this country, police brutality has not been covered to the degree it was in the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and others,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress (POP), in Newark, New Jersey. POP, which was founded 37 years ago, last week held its 70th weekly protest against police brutality. “We have to keep demonstrating, we have to keep fighting, in order to keep public attention on the issue,” said Hamm.
Black health is directly connected to the displacement and dispossession of our ancestors and the conditions of our neighborhoods.
Through photography, the author asks questions about the meaning and nature of liberation.
In some jurisdiction police dogs only bite Black people, but only a few that are mauled by dogs get justice.
Muntaqim is one of the longest-held political prisoners in the world. “Both his age and serious medical conditions made him vulnerable to the coronavirus.”
The defendant was caged behind thick glass, and had to crawl on his knees to a slit in the glass to make contact with his lawyers.
