Tag: police
An iMWiL! EXCLUSIVE: Book Excerpt: POLICE FORCED: The Case of Earl Faison, By Lawrence Hamm (with Annette M. Alston)
Thursday night, the People's Organization for Progress, a New Jersey progressive activist group, will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the police killing of a Black man named Earl Faison. He was...
The Unique Racial Nature of Baltimore City Police Governance
Stefanie Mavronis takes an important look at the history of the Baltimore police department and raises powerful questions about the nature of policing, the particular history of policing in Baltimore...
Media Coverage and the Political Economy of Black Death
Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble joined us again to discuss how her work on the political economy of the internet is playing out in current media coverage of the deaths of Black people. Money and audience...
The 4th of July, Hip-Hop and National “Inattentional Blindness”
Say what you want about the level of resistance to this country’s wonderfully constructed image and mythology, that which it creates about itself or those it holds in check; but hip-hop is a...