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SOURCE: TomDispatch
1/30/2022
The Islamophobia of Domestic Security and the Capitol Insurrection
by Juan Cole
Perhaps if the FBI hadn't been spending the last 20 years spying on American Muslims the organizing of white Christian nationalists leading to to the January 6 assault on the Capitol would't have been an apparent surprise to the authorities.
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SOURCE: Al Jazeera
12/19/2021
Exoneration of Convicted Malcolm X Killers Shows FBI Needs to be Held Accountable
"Were the real killers working with the FBI? And is that why the FBI withheld the information? What does it say that the only witnesses who placed Aziz and Islam at the scene of the crime were FBI informants?"
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SOURCE: Houma Today
9/14/2021
Did the FBI Fail to Investigate Civil Rights Killing Cold Cases?
The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2008 authorizes the FBI to prosecute surviing suspects in acts of racist terrorism. It's not clear that they have exercised this power vigilantly.
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SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
7/8/2021
Marquette's Athan Theoharis Used Hoover's Secret Files to Document the FBI's Illegal Actions
"Theoharis' research proved or verified many episodes of FBI skullduggery, including multiple instances of Sen. Joseph McCarthy enlisting the FBI to seek sexual or political dirt on government officials and workers, even President Dwight D. Eisenhower himself."
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SOURCE: HuffPost
5/10/2021
FBI Releases File On Suspicions Raised About Kurt Cobain’s 1994 Death
Fans who doubted the official story that Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain's death in 1994 was a suicide had requested investigation by the FBI, which declined.
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SOURCE: Spectre Journal
4/21/2021
Revolution is Illegal: Revisiting the Panther 21 at 50
by Orisanmi Burton
"To revisit the history of the BPP is to experience the rhyme of history. Yet, the refrain is not a pleasant one."
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SOURCE: Jacobin
3/2/2021
Newly Obtained FBI Files Shed New Light on the Murder of Fred Hampton
by Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher
New documents shed further light on the involvement of the FBI in the 1969 assassination of Chicago Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, who is the subject of the new film "Judas and the Black Messiah."
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
2/21/2021
What the FBI Had on Grandpa
by Molly Jong-Fast
"I never considered my grandfather to be a danger to the republic, but J. Edgar Hoover disagreed." The FBI surveilled writer Howard Fast extensively, though, as he wrote in his autobiography, "the eleven hundred pages detailed every—or almost every—decent act I had performed in my life."
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SOURCE: Reuters
2/21/2021
Malcolm X's Family Releases Letter Alleging FBI, Police Role In His Death
The family of the late leader released a letter they claim shows the involvement of a NYPD detective in a conspiracy to assassinate Malcolm X.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/13/2021
The Unsettling Message of "Judas and the Black Messiah"
by Elizabeth Hinton
The film "brings the disparities engendered by a surveillance state into focus, leaving audiences to wonder what this country would look like if the war on white supremacy were fought with the same implacable intensity as the one against the Black Panther Party some 50 years ago."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/10/2021
"Judas and the Black Messiah" Is an American Tragedy
The performances of the lead actors in "Judas and the Black Messiah" elevate the story of Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton's assassination by the police and FBI to a complex story of the Black freedom movement.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
2/8/2021
Why a Shootout Between Black Panthers and Law Enforcement 50 Years Ago Matters Today
by Paul Ringel
A 50 year-old police attack on members of the High Point chapter of the Black Panther Party has been largely forgotten, but it shows the historical development of a pattern of law enforcement that targets Black militants and allows white supremacist radicals free rein.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/9/2021
What ‘Defund the Police’ Really Means
by Simon Balto
The debate about "defunding police" must return to the community-driven vision of activists like assassinated Black Panther Fred Hampton, who envisioned a program of community empowerment that could divert the vast resources spent on policing toward other social ends.
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SOURCE: Buzzfeed
1/29/2021
A New Photo Exhibit Looks At Decades Of FBI Surveillance On American Citizens
Christopher Gregory-Rivera's new exhibit documents the FBI's surveillance, in concert with Puerto Rican authorities, of private citizens suspected of involvement in the island's independence movement.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
1/15/2021
A New Film Details the FBI’s Relentless Pursuit of Martin Luther King Jr.
The new film "MLK/FBI" addresses Americans' failure to remember that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was unpopular, labeled as divisive and subversive, and subject to harassment by federal law enforcement agencies during his life.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/11/2020
51 Years Later, Coded Message Attributed to Zodiac Killer Has Been Solved, F.B.I. Says
The FBI announced that a Virginia software developer led a successful effort to solve a coded message created by the notorious Bay Area serial killer.
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SOURCE: New York Magazine
10/26/2020
FBI Won’t Deliver Report on White-Supremacist Terror Threat Until After Election
“This report probably would not be viewed favorably by this administration. That, I think, precipitates the report not being released by November 3,” Mississippi representative Bennie Thompson told The Daily Beast.
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SOURCE: Hyperallergic
9/16/2020
From MLK to Whistleblowers, the FBI’s Trouble with Dissidents
The films MLK/FBI and Enemies of the State offer contrasting looks at government oppression.
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SOURCE: IndieWire
9/13/2020
‘MLK/FBI’ Review: A Damning Look at J. Edgar Hoover’s Attempts to Destroy a Civil Rights Hero
The most revealing takeaway from a new documentary on the FBI's campaign to take down Martin Luther King, Jr. isn’t that J. Edgar Hoover used every dirty machination at his disposal to take King down, but that most of the country seemed to think it was the right thing to do.
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SOURCE: Orange County Register
8/9/2020
There’s Nothing New About Federal Meddling In Protest Movements
by Brian Bensimon
The FBI has a long history of acting more as a "national security" agency than a law enforcement body, targeting racial and ethnic minorities and leftist activists.
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