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Understanding Today’s Uprisings Requires Understanding What Came Before Them
The media must make the long years of organizing as visible as the eruptions and uprisings.
by
Jeanne Theoharis
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Made By History
on
August 11, 2020
The History of the “Riot” Report
How government commissions became alibis for inaction.
by
Jill Lepore
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The New Yorker
on
June 15, 2020
Martin Luther King Knew That Fighting Racism Meant Fighting Police Brutality
Critics of Black Lives Matter have held up King as a foil to the movement’s criticisms of law enforcement, but those are views that King himself shared.
by
Jeanne Theoharis
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The Atlantic
on
September 15, 2021
A Warning Ignored
America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.
by
Jelani Cobb
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New York Review of Books
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July 29, 2021
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
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Viewpoint Magazine
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June 9, 2020