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 killed on April 11, 1999 by a revenge-hungry, white-majority police force in Orange, New Jersey, because the police were angry by the killing of…
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“Can you hear me? … I’m Screaming from way down here below!” – Hugh Masekela I. INTRODUCTION “Chief Blame for Riots Put on White Racism,” read the first first published headline 50 years ago today about the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders and suggests why the story was largely the result…
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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 and why that department is governed as it is by the state, not the city itself. The Unique Racial Nature of Baltimore City Police GovernanceWatch…
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