Long-time journalist and organizer Frank Sterling recently appeared on Hard Knock Radio to discuss the troubling controversies surrounding the Antioch Police Department. Sterling revealed that officers exchanged racist, homophobic, and threatening text messages for ten years. The FBI and other federal agencies monitoring the department discovered these messages, including officers threatening the city’s African American […]
Black Lives Matter
A Conversation w/ Shaun King About the Political Upheaval and Protests in Tennessee
Shaun King, the co-founder of the Grassroots Law Project, recently spoke on Hard Knock Radio about the expulsion of Tennessee elected officials Justin Jones and Justin Pearson. The two Democratic lawmakers were removed from their seats by Tennessee Republicans in the House of Representatives after they joined youth who protested inside the floor of the […]
Kali Akuno Speaks on Apartheid 2.0 in Jackson, Ms
(HKR-03-15-23) Davey D speaks with Kali Akuno from Cooperation Jackson about new laws being passed in the state of Mississippi that would essentially create a new, unelected court system in the state capital of Jackson. On Feb. 7, the Mississippi State House approved House Bill 1020, which Kali Akuno likens to Apartheid because it essentially […]
A Conversation w/ Civil Rights Activist Shaun King
We speak with Shaun King, co-founder of Real Justice PAC, about the recent victories all over the country in the midterm election. Despite the harsh rhetoric, many who ran on the promise to reimagine public safety and bring about accountability within police departments ascended into office. King noted that over 30 progressive district attorneys won […]
Race and Policing in America
Steve Martinot is Instructor Emeritus at the Center for Interdisciplinary Programs at San Francisco State University. He is the author of The Rule of Racialization: Class, Identity, Governance, Forms in the Abyss: a Philosophical Bridge between Sartre and Derrida(both Temple) and The Machinery of Whiteness.
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