Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
25 Apr 2025
🖨️ Print Article

Black Agenda Radio · Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

Alec Karakatsanis is an attorney with a long history of work as a public defender. He is the founder of the Civil Rights Corps , an organization that advocates for racial justice and brings systemic civil rights cases on behalf of impoverished people. He joins us to discuss his new book Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News, published by The New Press.

copaganda
mass incarceration
Hyper policing
Racial profiling

Related Podcasts

Delaney Hall
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Racism, Mass Incarceration, Settler Colonialism and Immigration Enforcement
29 May 2026
The Trump administration is accelerating policies meant not just to deport undocumented people, but to restrict every avenue of legal immigration f
Mumia Abu Jamal
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
March for Mumia
21 November 2025
Beginning on November 28, a March for Mumia Abu Jamal and will begin in Philadelphia, Penns
Rikers protest
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Eric Adams Loses Control of Rikers Island to Federal Receivership
30 May 2025
Our guest is Melanie Dominguez, Organizing Director, New York with the Katal Center for Equity, H

More Stories


  • Black Agenda Radio
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Black Agenda Radio August 16, 2024
    16 Aug 2024
    This week, we discuss the international sports federations that fail to uphold their expressed values and allow apartheid Israel to compete. First, we talk about Black political history and the…
  • UAW picket line
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Kamala Harris and the Failure of Black Political Imagination
    16 Aug 2024
    Jon Jeter joins us to talk about the state of US politics and his soon-to-be-published book, Class War in America: How the Elites Divide the Nation By Asking Are You a Worker or Are You White?
  • Palestine Football Association
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Palestine and International Sports Double Standards
    16 Aug 2024
    Katarina Pijetlovic joins us to discuss international sports federations, such as the International Olympic Committee and FIFA, their choice to let Israel compete in the Olympics, and other double…
  • Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
    Kamala Harris in Her Own Words
    14 Aug 2024
    Kamala Harris stands with the corporate democrats who are committed to austerity and imperialism. No one needs to wonder what she will do should she become president. What did Bill Clinton, Barack…
  • Editors, The Black Agenda Review
    SPEECH: Address to the AIPAC Policy Conference, Kamala Harris, 2017
    14 Aug 2024
    Kamala Harris: Your Auntie, AIPAC’s servant.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us