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Black Radical Activists and the Dangers of the Police State

November 11, 2020November 9, 2020 Denise Lynn Black political thought, black politics, class, Communism, police brutality, police violence, policing, prisons, race, Racial Capitalism, racism

During recent anti-police brutality protests and marches across the United States, American police forces have displayed the very behavior that

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#SayHerName: Seeking Justice for Breonna Taylor

November 2, 2020October 31, 2020 Sasha Ann Panaram police violence, policing, race, racism, social justice, white supremacy

More than six months after Breonna Taylor’s murder and in the wake of former detective Brett Hankison’s indictment on three

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Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor

September 18, 2020September 17, 2020 Andrew Grim electoral politics, police brutality, policing, Politics

Fifty years ago, Newark, New Jersey, elected its first Black mayor—Kenneth Gibson—at a moment when there was an urgency to

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The Everyday Black Life of Abolition

August 5, 2020August 12, 2020 Celeste Winston maroons, policing, Prison Abolition, social justice

The summer of 2020 has seen extraordinary uprisings against policing in the United States. An estimated 15 to 26 million

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Loop/Lapse/Loss: Untimely Dispatches from a Sea of Fragments

July 9, 2020July 5, 2020 John Murillo III #NewBlackSurrealisms, blackness, police violence, policing, race, Racial Violence, racism, Sandra Bland, white supremacy

*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent. I do not

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