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Black Agenda Radio December 9, 2022
09 Dec 2022
Rwanda's M23 proxy militia terrorizes the Congo with U.S. permission, Chicago organizes for community control of police, and charges are dismissed in the case of abuse survivor Tracy McCarter.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Community Control of Police in Chicago
09 Dec 2022
Frank Chapman is Executive Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. That organization has led the fight for community control of the police, with the creation of the…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio December 2, 2022
02 Dec 2022
The NYPD Gang Database profiles communities of color, Cleveland's mayor breaks a campaign promise for community control of police, and a conversation on which protests are considered legitimate, and…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Cleveland Mayor Breaks Campaign Promise on Community Control of Police
02 Dec 2022
Taru Taylor is a freelance journalist based in Cleveland, where he focuses on the issue of police reform. He recently wrote an op-ed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer about that city’s mayor, Justin Bibb…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Protesting for Jayland Walker
06 Jul 2022
The number of bullets used to kill Jayland Walker have sparked an outcry, but police kill one Black person every day in this country. If systemic change is not the demand all protest is for naught.
Black is Back Coalition
Black Is Back Coalition Holds Conference on Community Control of Police
15 Jul 2021
“We must deepen the resistance to police terror and all attempts to protect a status quo of colonial domination of our people,” the 17 organizations of the coalition declared.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Community Control of Police is the Best Remedy
30 Jun 2021
Community Control of Police is the Best Remedy Chicago leads the nation in moving towards community control of the police, with a majority of the city’s board of aldermen in favor.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Community Control is Best Route to Abolishing Policing As We Know It
15 Mar 2021
Community control of police advocates in the Washington, DC region say their approach is the best -- and most democratic – way to achieve both defunding and total abolition of policing as it exists
Pan-African Community Action
The Radical Practicality of Community Control Over Policing: A Reply to Our Critics
03 Mar 2021
Once we are able to secure Community Control over Police and ensure that entire communities are empowered to exercise such control, we will be free to re-imagine and re-envision the very nature of
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Community Control of Police is a Right and Necessity
12 Oct 2020
In response to protests, the eastern North Carolina city of Greenville has discontinued its ties to the Pentagon’s infamous 1033 program that funnels military weapons and equipment to local police.