Protest, Politics and Policing: What Bayard Rustin Could Tell the Ferguson-Garner Movement
“I can’t breathe” actions in street crossings, sports fields and other civic spaces have blown new life into civil rights public history. Demonstrators.
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Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People
In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an underlying assumption that the police.
- by Sam Mitrani
- December 29, 2014
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On Ferguson, Missouri: History, Protest, and “Respectability”
It is difficult to write about the situation in the black working-class community of Ferguson, Missouri, which began last week with the police.
- by Clarence Lang
- August 17, 2014
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Be Consolated, John Handcox
John L Handcox was an African American born in Brinkley, Arkansas, in 1904 at one of the worst times and in one of.
- by Michael Honey
- April 10, 2014
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Race, Class, Labor, and the (Not So) Incognito Controversy
I’ve long appreciated how athletics mirror and shape broader social relations (Consider, for instance, C.L.R. James’s Beyond a Boundary, which famously approached cricket.
- by Clarence Lang
- November 12, 2013