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photo of Otto Kerner with quote: "freedom for every citizen to live and work according to his capacities and not his color"

We Were Warned About a Divided America 50 Years Ago. We Ignored the Signs

As in the 1960s, the nation today stands at a turning point.
by Elizabeth Hinton via Washington Post on March 16, 2021

The Murder Chicago Didn’t Want to Solve

In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.
by Mick Dumke via ProPublica on February 25, 2021
The Black Panthers

Why a Shootout Between Black Panthers and Law Enforcement 50 Years Ago Matters Today

In 1971, armed officers went to a house occupied by Black Panther activists, marking a policing trajectory toward a more militarized response to Black activism.
by Paul Ringel via The Conversation on February 8, 2021
Cover of Coast Magazine titled "Gays Fight Back! San Francisco's Lavender Vigilantes," featuring a man on the floor holding the leg of another man dressed in all black holding a gun.

Queer as Cop: Gay Patrol Units and the White Fantasy of Safety

In the 1970s, gay patrol units in San Francisco and New York City rallied around their whiteness to produce a sense of safety.
by Hugh Mac Neill via NOTCHES on February 2, 2021
Yankees fans celebrate their win over the Kansas City Royals in the 1976 American League Championship

Why Baseball Fans Stopped Rushing the Field

On Oct. 21, 1980, a beloved tradition was put to a stop.
by Mitchell Nathanson via Slate on October 26, 2020
New York

The So-Called 'Kidnapping Club' Featured Cops Selling Free Black New Yorkers Into Slavery

Outright racism met financial opportunity when men like Isiah Rynders accrued wealth through legal, but nefarious, means.
by Jonathan Daniel Wells via Smithsonian Magazine on October 14, 2020
Teenagers from PAL take part in “Commissioner for A Day” on February 18, 1969

Rivalry in the Trenches

Philadelphia’s PAL and the Black Panther Party’s efforts to mold black youth into their own image.
by Menika Dirkson via The Metropole on September 23, 2020
James Baldwin

Freedom Day, 1963: A Lost Interview with James Baldwin

After Baldwin’s biographer died, her niece opened an old desk drawer and discovered a trove of interview material, some of it unpublished.
by James Baldwin, Fern Marja Eckman, Leslie J. Freeman via The New Yorker on September 22, 2020
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The Dark Side of Campus Efforts to Stop Covid-19

Expanding campus police forces’ power threatens to increase surveillance.
by Grace Watkins via Made By History on September 14, 2020

Stretching to Understand Renegade Urban Fireworks

As was the case in 200 years ago, this summer's relentless pyrotechnics may not be meaningless acts of an unthinking mob.
by Marika Plater via The Metropole on September 9, 2020

“The Mask Law will be Rigidly Enforced”

Ordinances, arrests, and celebrations during the influenza epidemic.
by E. Thomas Ewing, Jessica Brabble, Ariel Ludwig via SHGAPE Blog on August 11, 2020
Lithograph depicting police attacking African Americans in New Orleans, 1874

On Riots and Resistance

Exploring freedpeople’s struggle against police brutality during Reconstruction.
by Robert D. Bland via Muster on August 11, 2020
Two people clinking their bottles of beer together.

Let Us Drink in Public

Open container laws criminalize working-class people and make public life less fun. We need to legalize public drinking.
by Miles Kampf-Lassin via Jacobin on August 4, 2020

An Embattled President. A Mass Movement. A Military Used Against Citizens. We’ve Been Here Before.

The inside story of Mayday 1971 and the largest mass arrest in US history.
by Lawrence Roberts via Mother Jones on July 29, 2020

When Conservatives Called to Freeze Police Budgets

The loudest opponents to police funding were once fiscal conservatives.
by David Helps via The Metropole on July 22, 2020
E.J. Banks, a Texas Ranger, in front of a school with an effigy of a Black student hanging over the front door

A Century Ago, One Lawmaker Went After the Most Powerful Cops in Texas. Then They Went After Him

The Texas Rangers were vicious enforcers of white power. J.T. Canales, who once fought against them lost, but the reckoning he sought is finally underway.
by Tim Murphy via Mother Jones on July 22, 2020
A photo of law enforcement emerging from a hazy cloud on a city street.

Trump Has Brought America’s Dirty Wars Home

The authoritarian tactics we’ve exported around the world in the name of national security are now being deployed in Portland.
by Stuart Schrader via The New Republic on July 21, 2020
Armed troops wearing gas masks walk through tear gas at Black Lives Matter protest.
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The Extraordinary Scene Unfolding in Portland Has a Disturbing History

How immigration enforcement and policing became entwined
by Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez via Made By History on July 19, 2020
Men with guns in street
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How Tear Gas Became a Staple of American Law Enforcement

In 1932, the “Bonus Army” of jobless veterans staged a protest in Washington, DC. The government dispersed them with tear gas.
by Lauren Vespoli via JSTOR Daily on June 24, 2020
Black and white photo of black child with his hands up, with police wielding weapons behind him
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The 1968 Kerner Commission Report Still Echoes Across America

Anger over policing and inequality boiled over more than 50 years ago, and a landmark report warned that it could happen again.
by Clyde Haberman via Retro Report on June 23, 2020
Demonstrators against police brutality.
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The Explicit Anthem of Anti-Racist Protest

Rap group N.W.A. understood vulgarity and controversy were necessary to draw attention to police brutality.
by Felicia Angeja Viator via Made By History on June 22, 2020
Lithograph of a New York City street in 1830, bustling with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages.

The Black New Yorker Who Led the Charge Against Police Violence in the 1830s

David Ruggles' fight against the "kidnapping club" in the 1830s shows that police violence has been part of America's DNA from its earliest days.
by Jonathan Daniel Wells via TIME on June 17, 2020
New York Police Department logo on the side of a car.

Why Are NYPD Cruisers Playing the Ice Cream Truck Jingle?

The melody occupies a niche space at the intersection of ice cream, entertainment, and Black history.
by Luke Fater via Atlas Obscura on June 16, 2020
People at a Black Lives Matter protest

The Power of Black Lives Matter

How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next.
by Jamil Smith via Rolling Stone on June 16, 2020
Gordon Park's photograph of law enforcement officers kicking in a door

When Crime Photography Started to See Color

Six decades ago, Gordon Parks, Life magazine’s first black photographer, revolutionized what a crime photo could look like.
by Bill Shapiro via The Atlantic on June 16, 2020

The History of the “Riot” Report

How government commissions became alibis for inaction.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on June 15, 2020
Protester holding a "Defund the Police" sign.

Defund the Police

Protest slogans and the terms for debate.
by Austin McCoy via Perspectives on History on June 12, 2020
Two posterboards covered in red handprints that read "Black Lives Matter" and "No Justice, No Peace."

Stop Comparing Today’s Protests to 1968

There are superficial similarities, but what we’re seeing now is something completely new.
by Thomas J. Sugrue via Washington Post on June 11, 2020

America Begins to See More Clearly Now What Its Black Citizens Always Knew

The present round of protest is different. The participants are people of every race, ethnicity, sex, age, and religion.
by Theodore R. Johnson III via National Review on June 11, 2020
A wanted poster that reads "Wanted by the people: murder, aggravated assault and battery, denying civil rights, perjury. Brinley Evans, Thomas Lyons."

Wanted: An End to Police Terror

The pursuit of justice has been defined by a rote binary of punished in a cage versus unpunished and free.
by Stuart Schrader via Viewpoint Magazine on June 9, 2020
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