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

You Can’t Separate Police and Violence
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
22 Oct 2018
🖨️ Print Article

“Police reform can’t work,” said Micol Seigel, author of Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police,“because the rock-bottom function of the police is to do the work of the state -- and the work of the state is violence.” The professor of sociology and Africana Studies at Stony Brook University maintains that, “The main way that the capitalist market state has organized violence over the past 500 years, is by race.”

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


  • Assange Defense
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Julian Assange Freedom Celebration
    01 Nov 2024
    Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report Executive Editor, spoke at an event in Berkeley, California celebrating the release of political prisoner Julian Assange. She connected his case with that of…
  • Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
    Trump Rally, Washington Post and Michelle Obama Generate Fake Outrage
    30 Oct 2024
    Liberals love to indulge in performative virtue signaling rather than serious political conviction. Recent events proved that their highest priority is maintaining alliances with the Democratic Party…
  • Editors, The Black Agenda Review
    SPEECH: Everybody is Quiet But the Nationalist Party, Pedro Albizu Campos, 1950
    30 Oct 2024
    Hardly a “floating island of garbage,” Puerto Rico remains a colony, treated like trash by the US. Read this ledger of the cost and crimes of the US colonial project.
  • Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
    Jean Leonard Teganya Faces Torture in Rwanda
    30 Oct 2024
    Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s regime continues its lawfare against Rwandans in the Western diaspora.
  • Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report Contributor
    BRICS Declaration Reinforces Call for Multipolarity
    30 Oct 2024
    Kazan summit rejects unilateralism advanced by the West.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us