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“Overpoliced and Underprotected”: In Michael Brown Killing, Neglect of Black Communities Laid Bare
“The black community tends be overpoliced and underprotected,” says professor john a. powell.
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The AFL-CIO Should Be in Ferguson
Our biggest problems are political, not organizational.
Activist Mab Segrest Discusses Civil Rights, History of Structural Racism in the US
From police killings, to Stand Your Ground laws, to Medicaid refusal in majority-minority states, 50 years after Freedom Summer and the Civil Rights Act, activist Mab Segrest says structural …
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@Ferguson: It’s Been a Long Time Coming
Every day, a generation is sending a message on YouTube to the world: It's been a long time coming. Change is gonna come. Oh yes it will.
Ferguson Exposes the Reality of Militarized, Racist Policing
This is a teachable moment for the nation that presents an opportunity to transform policing so it serves the people.
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Supremacy: A Social Order of Division, Control and Enslavement
I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little third-graders in a space of fifteen minutes.
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Primal Crimes
If one looks at narrative today, there loom two questions, it seems to me. One is the role and nature of genre, the second is about crime.
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Michael Brown and the United States’ Structural Violence Epidemic
Disproportionality in police use of force against Black Americans persists and cannot be tolerated.
New Orleans’ New Civil Rights Leaders
Like many cities in the South, New Orleans has a proud history of civil rights leadership - along with an equally grim history of civil rights violations.
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The Caveats of Ferguson and the Murder of Michael Brown
Why must one, in America, be confined to a living space that is essentially occupied by law enforcement because they are perceived as “dangerous animals”?