Dr. Natasha Pratt-Harris, the only Black woman from Baltimore, working in Baltimore as a Criminologist, was our guest academic in the car and took us for a ride around Baltimore discussing how her own history growing up there informs her current work. That work involves community engaged police training and work within and about the…
Read moreCitations Needed Podcast (#6): The Media’s Default Setting of White Supremacy
From Citations Needed: “In Episode 06 we explore how the media both consciously and subconsciously works to smear black victims, protect the police, and works overtime to ameliorate the sensibilities of white media consumers with our guest Dr. Jared A. Ball. The white supremacist regime at work in the media can be broken down into…
Read morePolice Brutality is a Politically Protected Reality
Submitted to iMWiL! by Africa Jackson Quick question. Why do cowards get to take sick days off from basic accountability? Alonzo Smith is one of dozens of Black people subjected to blatant torture by police under Richard Daley’s watch. He filed a lawsuit in 2016 because the ‘enhanced interrogation’ tactics officers used on him more…
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