Book

America On Fire

The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

Elizabeth Hinton

2021

Liveright Publishing Corporation

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Q&A

Whose Streets? Trump’s Federalized National Guard and the Long Arc of White Supremacy

Federal agents have long harassed immigrants and Black and brown people in cities, but something dangerous is changing behind the scenes.

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Book Review

The Ballot or the Brick

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An apartment building on fire.

Did Racial Capitalism Set the Bronx on Fire?

To some, the fires lit in New York in the late seventies signaled rampant crime; to others, rebellion. But maybe they were signs of something else entirely.

by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on August 18, 2025

Formal portrait photo of Destin Jenkins.

Public Thinker: Destin Jenkins on Breaking Bonds

“What if we identified the politics of municipal debt as circumscribing political horizons and futures?”

by Destin Jenkins, Hannah Appel via Public Books on December 13, 2021

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