Police Repression

Don Fitz
Politicians Agree: Any White Cop Can Kill a Black Man
09 Oct 2019
Racist barbarity is on the march, with Missouri’s men and women in blue in the vanguard.
Tory Russell
A Ferguson Organizer Reflects on the Aftermath
11 Sep 2019
We figured out pretty fast that hashtags don’t move white supremacists, and petitions don’t change policy for Black lives.
Chelli Stanley
Jussie Smollett, the Chicago Police Department, and the Appearing/Disappearing Video Footage Trick
04 Sep 2019
The cops “investigating” the Smollett case have long records of racist brutality, evidence tampering and lying – facts the corporate media ignored.
Elizabeth Hinton
How the ‘Central Park Five’ Changed the History of American Law
05 Jun 2019
Despite no DNA evidence, fingerprints, blood, or semen linking any of the black and brown boys to the crime, all five defendants grew up in prison.
Joe Penny
The Fight for Justice Takes Its Toll on Ferguson Activists
13 Mar 2019
Activists keep winding up dead under questionable circumstances, but Black St. Louis is a stressful and violent place.
Paul Street
Buried Alive: The Story of Police State Racism in Chicago
20 Feb 2019
Chicago media care more about the safety of a killer cop and the Jesse Smollett saga than victims of the city’s rabidly racist police.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Free Marzieh Hashemi
23 Jan 2019
A Black American journalist languishes in a DC jail, imprisoned without charge as part of the US vendetta against Iran, yet the Black political class has not raised a peep in protest.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Arrest of Marzieh Hashemi Reveals Nature of Bipartisan Police State
23 Jan 2019
The only reason our sister is being held captive is to once again demonstrate how a runaway slave is treated.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Victory Over Military Cop Convention
04 Apr 2018
“The best-selling t-shirt at the previous year's expo: a picture of an assault weapon with the caption ‘Black Rifles Matter.’”