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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio June 3, 2022
03 Jun 2022
The effort to end qualified immunity in New York, rezoning and housing in Harlem, and the National Day Laborers Organinizing Network at the People's Summit.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Ending Qualified Immunity in New York
03 Jun 2022
Qualified immunity is the legal doctrine that shields public officials accused of civil rights violations. Police and corrections officers face limited repercussions for acts of brutality, even for…
Mark P. Fancher
Patrick Lyoya’s Death Sentence for the Crime of “Contempt of White Cop”
20 Apr 2022
Police in the United States kill an average of three people every day and one of those persons will be Black. Patrick Lyoya was one recent victim of a police execution.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Activist Journalist Frank Sterling on Trial
09 Feb 2022
A KPFA reporter experienced violent encounters with police in Antioch, California and advocates on behalf of others.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Copaganda
05 Jan 2022
Copaganda I.
Netfa Freeman
Biden’s DOJ Sleight of Hand on Police Reform
22 Sep 2021
DOJ "reforms" are a smoke screen covering up systemic complicity with law enforcement.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The NBA’s Black Power
02 Sep 2020
Black NBA players, writes Ann Garrison, are just beginning to understand the power of the attention and admiration they command.
Marjorie Cohn
Federal Judge Tackles Police Immunity Law
26 Aug 2020
The Black judge listed the injustices of “qualified immunity,” which allows police and other government officials to escape liability for their law breaking.
Eric Umansky and Mollie Simon
The NYPD Is Withholding Evidence From Investigations Into Police Abuse
19 Aug 2020
The NYPD has regularly failed to turn over key records and videos to police abuse investigators at New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. “
Alene Tchekmedyian
LA’s Gang-Infested Police are Deadly – and Costly
12 Aug 2020
Uniformed thugs calling themselves Vikings, Regulators and Banditos prey on the city’s Black and brown civilians, and even brutalize their fellow cops.