Related Stories
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
02 September 2020
Black NBA players, writes Ann Garrison, are just beginning to understand the power of the attention and admiration they command.
Marjorie Cohn
26 August 2020
The Black judge listed the injustices of “qualified immunity,” which allows police and other government officials to escape liability for their law
Eric Umansky and Mollie Simon
19 August 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
12 August 2020
Uniformed thugs calling themselves Vikings, Regulators and Banditos prey on the city’s Black and brown civilians, and even brutalize their fellow c
Clarence Taylor
22 July 2020
The antidote to police lawlessness isn’t more training, or fancy equipment, but putting the community in charge of the cops.
Jeff Haas and Dennis Cunningham
19 February 2020
Chicago’s torture machine was both a real mechanism to produce confessions through pain, and a racist political instrument.
Netfa Freeman
08 January 2020
Trump wants to “surge” against urban Black and brown Americans in the same way that the US surged against Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nida Khan
20 November 2019
A brutal New Jersey police chief who routinely spouted racist slurs and threats was fingered by his own officers, but exonerated in court.
Shea Howell
17 July 2019
A Black elected police commissioner was manhandled at a public meeting for protesting a draconian facial recognition scheme.
Vaidya Gullapalli
26 June 2019
The memorial would be a stone monument with the names of those tortured by Burge and his officers and the dates they were tortured.
More Stories
- Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist24 Feb 2021The people of Texas suffer unnecessarily from bad weather because their state puts oligarchs first and does not recognize the human right to health and safety.
- Black Agenda Review Editors24 Feb 2021South Africa must dismantle and transcend the colonial nation-state through creation of a Pan-African federation that stretches across the Southern African sub-continent.
- Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor24 Feb 2021Is there any limit to how far the West will go to cover for Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s Crimes? asks Ann Garrison.
- Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor24 Feb 2021The show has become a reliable platform for uncritical regime change propaganda, demonizing targets of US empire from Syria to Nicaragua.
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence24 Feb 2021The rioters all knew him— it had to be an inside job— ‘cause to a man they spoke to him by name as they breached the building. Read their lips…