Veteran journalist and activist Thandisizwe Chimurenga joined us again to discuss her award winning coverage of cases involving police violence against Black people and the context in which she sees that work taking place. Chimurenga has covered the trial of the killer of Renisha McBride and is also author of the recently published No Doubt…
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Veteran community journalist Thandisizwe Chimurenga who covered closely the killing of Oscar Grant and subsequent trial of his killer Johannes Mehserle joined us to discuss her forthcoming book No Doubt The Murder of Oscar Grant. I began by asking her to tell us about her book and why she began early on in the introduction that, “In order…
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“I was worried about the police… Call it a father’s intuition… In the past, you could hang a black man from a tree and nothing would happen. Now, the same thing happened to Oscar Grant. It’s the same mentality. It hasn’t changed. Why is it always a white officer killing a black or brown youth…
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