Search Results for: police brutality

From HIV-AIDS to COVID-19: Black Vulnerability and Medical Uncertainty

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 Antoine S. Johnson COVID-19, Harm Reduction, HIV-AIDS, medical racism

As America experiences mounting unrest amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and protests against police’s senseless murdering of Black people,

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Using MLK to Quell Outrage Distorts His Legacy

June 8, 2020June 7, 2020 Jeanne Theoharis civil rights, Martin Luther King Jr., policing, Resistance

Over the past week, numerous public officials—faced with disruptive protests around police brutality and racial inequality in the age of

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Status of the Bail Funds

June 4, 2020June 3, 2020 Say Burgin Activism, black lives matter, Resistance

Since last weekend, we’ve seen a nation-wide uprising in response to the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd,

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Black Deaths and Black Mourning in the Time of Coronavirus

April 20, 2020April 19, 2020 Joan Flores-Villalobos Afro-Latin, Afro-Latinx, Caribbean, Latin America, mourning, Panama

That coronavirus (COVID-19) is “the great equalizer” has quickly become an old and tired adage, rightly critiqued by scholars and

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Violence, Empathy, and Solidarity, in the New History of Policing

April 6, 2020April 5, 2020 Dan Berger #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, carceral state, mass incarceration, police brutality, police violence, policing

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing

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