As part of NPR’s Throughline podcast episode on the history of racialized policing in America, they created a brief overview with Harvard historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad.
Via hosts Ramtin Arablouei and Rund Abdelfatah:
Black Americans being victimized and killed by the police is an epidemic. A truth many Americans are acknowledging since the murder of George Floyd, as protests have occurred in all fifty states calling for justice on his behalf. But this tension between African American communities and the police has existed for centuries. This week, the origins of American policing and how those origins put violent control of Black Americans at the heart of the system.
Listen to the 1-hour episode wherever fine podcasts are streamed.
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Source: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/14/npr-examines-centuries-of-poli.html
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