| Black Agenda Report

Topher Sanders and Lucas Waldron
Still Can’t Breathe
27 Jan 2021
NYPD officers continue to use chokeholds on civilians without any meaningful punishment.
Priyam Madhukar
Police Shouldn’t Tag Students as Potential Criminals
20 Jan 2021
When cops create lists of kids “at risk” of falling into crime, it becomes a self-fulfilling indictment.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Notes Toward a National Defense Organization Against Racism and Political Repression, 1973
10 Dec 2020
Few records survive of the birth of a national anti-police repression organization formed by supporters of Angela Davis – but government spies preserved Davis’ speech.
Adofo Minka
Spies of Mississippi: Mayor Lumumba’s Cops Put Public Under Spyglass
25 Nov 2020
Jackson’s supposedly “radical” Black mayor wants to make surveillance great again in Mississippi.
Carroll Bogert
Superpredator: The Media Myth That Demonized a Generation of Black Youth
25 Nov 2020
By the end of the 90s corporate journalists were feverishly dehumanizing young blacks in news stories, editorials and commentaries.
Flint Taylor
Torture Survivor Jackie Wilson Exonerated in Pandemic Murder Trial
18 Nov 2020
Wilson’s 40-year ordeal has ended, but his attorneys hope to make Chicago prosecutors pay for their crimes.
Bree Newsome Bass
Black Cops Don’t Make Policing Any Less Anti-Black
11 Nov 2020
The idea that we can resolve racism by integrating a fundamentally anti-Black institution is the most absurd notion of all.
Jinette Jimenez and Anya Milberg
Cops Kill People in Psychiatric Crisis
04 Nov 2020
The Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP), a New York City-based policy analysis and advocacy organization, recently released a report
Sam Biddle
Twitter Surveillance Startup Targets Communities of Color for Cops
28 Oct 2020
Insiders say Dataminr’s “algorithmic” Twitter search involves human staffers perpetuating confirmation biases, searching specific neighborhoods, streets, and even housing complexes for crime.
BBC staff
Nigeria SARS Protests: Amnesty Warns of “Escalating Attacks”
21 Oct 2020
Protests mount against Africa’s most populous nation’s most feared police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).