Person

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Bylines

The Origins of Policing in America

How American policing grew out of efforts to control the labor of poor and enslaved people.

by Chenjerai Kumanyika, Khalil Gibran Muhammad via Washington Post on September 24, 2020
How Racist Policing Took Over American Cities

"The problem is the way policing was built," historian Khalil Muhammad says.

by Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Anna North via Vox on June 6, 2020
It Really Is Different This Time

Two dozen experts consider the George Floyd protests in light of protests past.

by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Keisha N. Blain, Mark Bray, Clayborne Carson, Lee Drutman, David Greenberg, Vanita Gupta, Mark Holden, Nancy Isenberg, Peniel E. Joseph, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Michael Nutter, Omar Wasow, Will Stancil, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Walter Olson, Kay C. James, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Heather Boushey, Corey Pegues, Christopher S. Parker, Simon Balto, Chuck Wexler, Abdul El-Sayed, Monica C. Bell via Politico Magazine on June 4, 2020
The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing

A new documentary on Michael Brown comes just in time.

by Khalil Gibran Muhammad via The Nation on May 17, 2018
The Descent of Democracy

While the U.S. has expanded its borders of inclusion over time, the borders of whiteness have never fallen. Only a robust black public sphere can change that.

by Khalil Gibran Muhammad via Boston Review on September 20, 2017

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Black man holding a protest sign that says "you may be next!"; cover image of book The Condemnation of Blackness.

Lying with Numbers

How statistics were used in the urban North to condemn Blackness as inherently criminal.

by Mary F. Corey via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 29, 2021

Image from the documentary "Descendant" showing a man standing on a beach looking over the water.

Reckoning with the Slave Ship Clotilda

A new documentary tells the story of the last known slave ship to enter the United States and takes on the difficult question of how to memorialize America’s history of racial violence.

by Vera Carothers via The New Yorker on September 21, 2022

The Invention of the Police

Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on July 13, 2020

NYPD officers in front of an American flag.

There’s Truth in Numbers in Policing – Until There Isn’t

To hold the police accountable for misconduct, data related to police violence must not only become more accessible, it must also become more reliable.

by Carl Suddler via Brookings on June 26, 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

Clara Newton at her home outside Baltimore, holding a picture of her son Odell, who has been in prison for 41 years for a crime he committed when he was 16. State officials have recommended Odell for release three times since 1992, but he has not been freed. August 4, 2015.

The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Politicians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history.

by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on September 15, 2015

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