Tag
Police Violence
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Abolish Sheriffs: Talking with Jessica Pishko
“My perspective is that we should abolish the office of the sheriff.”
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When NYC Invented Modern Policing: Emily Brooks on WWII–Era Surveillance and Discrimination
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“Mississippi Masala” @30: Revisiting a Film Classic in Authoritarian Times
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Open Letters, Open Secrets: Laurence Ralph on Police Torture in Chicago
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We Can’t Look Away from the Courts: An Interview with Matthew Clair
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The Black Rebel Athlete: Spectacle and Protest
As more and more protests make clear, the bodies of Black people playing sports are not outside history. Indeed, they never have been.
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Making Black Lives Matter in Italy: A Transnational Dialogue
“So, dear sister, do you think that Black Italian movements have changed qualitatively in the wake of George Floyd?”[none-for-homepage]
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Covid Blindness
Withholding accurate information obscures both the impact of the pandemic on the most vulnerable and the resurgence of institutional violence.
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How to Defund the Police
The inconvenient truth of police history in the United States is that police departments were not designed to keep a generic public safe.
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Rage and Uprising
A politics of rage does not equate emotions with irrationality or impulsive behavior, but can affirm equality, claim agency, and ask for justice.
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Defund the Police and Refund the Communities
The dueling crises of the pandemic and police brutality have brought many problems to the surface of our society and made them impossible to continue to ignore.
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The Police: Gentrification’s Shock Troops
In Detroit today, politicians promise that real estate development—coupled with police violence—will guarantee the city’s spiritual redemption.[none-for-homepage]
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Power, Poison, Pain, and Joy
Sitting atop a police car beneath an oversized American flag, Kendrick Lamar opened the 2015 BET awards with his single “Alright.” “We hate the po-po …
