Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Violent Cops are Health Menace
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
10 Dec 2018
🖨️ Print Article

Activists of Critical Resistance won American Public Health Association endorsement of the principle that police violence is a public health issue. Jade Rivera, co-author of the report that documented a cascade of ills flowing from police mayhem, said the problem goes beyond those killed outright by cops. “We can also see that there are physical harms as well as mental health and stress associated with these interactions” between civilians and cops, said Rivera.

Police brutality

Related Podcasts

Robert Brooks memorial
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Robert Brooks, Rikers Island and the Fight Against New York Incarceration
10 January 2025
The subject of our discussion is mass incarceration in New York City and New York State.
Black Agenda Radio March 10, 2023
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio March 10, 2023
10 March 2023
This week we hear about the absence of home rule in Washington DC and the congressional and white house decision to overturn its city council’s cri
Community Control of Police in Chicago
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Community Control of Police in Chicago
09 December 2022
Frank Chapman is Executive Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.

More Stories


  • Black Agenda Radio, Week of March 25, 2019
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black Agenda Radio, Week of March 25, 2019
    26 Mar 2019
    Nnamdi Lumumba: all parties have a class charac
  • Congress Got Ilhan Omar Resolution Backwards
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Congress Got Ilhan Omar Resolution Backwards
    26 Mar 2019
    Suad Abdul Khabeer and Asha Noor joined with two other Muslim and Jewish women to publish an article titled, “How Targeting Ilhan Omar Instead of Wh
  • MLK Assassination Day Desecrated by NATO Festivities
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    MLK Assassination Day Desecrated by NATO Festivities
    26 Mar 2019
    The Trump regime will host NATO’s 70th anniversary celebrations in Washington on April 4, the day Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968.
  • Louisianans Seek End of “10-2” Law
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Louisianans Seek End of “10-2” Law
    25 Mar 2019
    “We have over 2000 people sitting in prison that were convicted under this racist, unconstitutional Jim Crow law” that allows guilty verdicts by just 10 of 12 jurors, said Belinda Parker-Brown, pre
  • Black-Led Maryland Party Looks Beyond Elections
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black-Led Maryland Party Looks Beyond Elections
    25 Mar 2019
    Maryland’s Ujima Peoples Progress Party is preparing for a statewide conference in Baltimore, May 11, under the theme, “Elections and Beyond: Building Independent Solutions for the Black Community.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us