Search Results for: police brutality

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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Online Roundtable—Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power

March 31, 2020March 29, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory

April 6–10, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Civil and

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Power and Policing in New York City

March 18, 2020March 11, 2020 Willie Mack New York, police brutality, police violence, policing

  In New York City over the last few months, issues concerning law enforcement reform have been chaotic to say

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