violence

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/28/2020
  

  Violence In Portland Exposes The Real Purpose Embedded In Law Enforcement

  by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

  Policing in America traces its roots back to the institution of the slave patrol.

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• SOURCE: Current Affairs
  7/28/2020
  

  Policing Can’t End Violence in the U.S., But Reparations Might

  Because American police have always upheld racial capitalism through violence, anti-racist public safety requires police abolition—and police abolition requires reparations.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  7/29/2020
  

  Portland History Professor Says She Was Shot in the Head by Federal Agents

  "This is my home. I was protesting peacefully. So why did federal troops shoot me in the head?" said professor Maureen Healy.

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  7/24/2020
  

  The Death of Hannah Fizer

  by Adam Rothman and Barbara J. Fields

  Those seeking genuine democracy must fight like hell to convince white Americans that what is good for black people is also good for them: Reining in murderous police, investing in schools rather than prisons, and providing universal healthcare.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/24/2020
  

  Black Women are the Victims of Police Violence, Too

  by Mary-Elizabeth Murphy

  One lesson of black Washingtonians in the 1930s is that change can come if activists call attention and politicize the over-policing and violence against black women, recognizing how gendered violence upholds white supremacy. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/13/2020
  

  A Century After a Race Massacre, Tulsa Finally Digs for Suspected Mass Graves

  The excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery, delayed for months by the pandemic, begins Monday morning.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/22/2020
  

  Police Say Deaths of Black People by Hanging are Suicides. Many Black People aren’t so Sure.

  by Stacey Patton

  Black people's suspicions that a number of recent hanging deaths were murders rather than suicides echoes a long history of concealing violence against black people by ruling it suicide. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  6/21/2020
  

  Racial Violence and a Pandemic: How the Red Summer of 1919 Relates to 2020

  Geoff Ward, Cameron McWhirter and Saje Mathieu examine the parallels between the notorious "Red Summer" of 1919 and the present. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/16/2020
  

  At Least 2,000 More Black People Were Lynched By White Mobs Than Previously Reported, New Research Finds

  Racial terror followed passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865.

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• SOURCE: History Extra (BBC)
  6/16/2020
  

  American Spotlight: How Today’s Protests Echo Historical Outrage

  In this podcast, Kevin Gaines speaks with History Extra on the history of the civil rights movement, racial tensions in America, and the history behind the police violence of recent weeks.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/16/2020
  

  Why Protest Movements Are ‘Civil’ Only in Retrospect

  Historian Richard Pierce: “Blacks can’t continue to wait around to find an acceptable form of protest that will generate 100 percent approval on the other side, because that doesn’t exist.”

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• 6/21/2020
  

  The Great Upheaval of 1877 Sheds Light on Today’s Protests

  by Richard Schneirov

  1877 saw a wave of mass protests and strikes by the urban poor of multiple ethnicities, violent repression by the forces of law and order, and a news media that focused on sensational instances of looting and property damage while ignoring the protesters' complaints about inequality during a brutal economic downturn.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  6/11/2020
  

  Violence As A Form Of Protest

  Professor of Africana Studies Kellie Carter Jackson speaks with WBUR on the relationship between violence and protest; a relationship which goes back to the Boston Massacre.

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  6/3/2020
  

  ‘It Was a Modern-Day Lynching’: Violent Deaths Reflect a Brutal American Legacy

  As black people continue to die at the hands of police and vigilantes, the nation faces its long history of racial violence.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/27/2020
  

  How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror

  Throughout history, white women have used the violence of white men and the institutions these men control as their own muscle.

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• 5/24/2020
  

  The Lynching of David Wyatt

  by Greg Bailey

  Lynching and mob terrorism against African Americans have never been strictly southern phenomena, as a bloody incident from southern Illinois's histrory reveals. 

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• 5/24/2020
  

  Citizen’s Arrest: Racist at its Roots

  by Alan J. Singer

  Georgia's Citizens's Arrest law has always been used to enable and support white supremacy since its enactment during the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: Radical History Review
  12/19/19
  

  The Power of Chilean Women Denouncing Gendered and Sexual Violence Through Song

  by Margaret Power

  For the last two years and a half women students and faculty have exposed and denounced the rampant sexual abuse and sexist education that take place in Chilean schools and universities. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/18/2019
  

  Chile’s political crisis is another brutal legacy of long-dead dictator Pinochet

  by Paul W. Posner

  After weeks of intense, sometimes violent nationwide protests, Chilean President Sebastian Piñera has relented to demands to rewrite the Chilean Constitution. The protesters say they want a new constitution to address Chile’s severe social and economic inequities.

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• 10/20/19
  

  Can Studying Human Evolution Help Us Understand Impeachment?

  by David P. Barash

  What The Goodness Paradox can teach us about the importance of enforcing societal norms.