Netflix Shows to Watch in Understanding Police Brutality in Times of Black Lives Matter

4 years, 6 months ago

Netflix Shows to Watch in Understanding Police Brutality in Times of Black Lives Matter

News 18

The TV series "Dear White People," "When They See Us" and "Orange Is the New Black" have all tackled issues of racism and police violence, which are rarely explored on the small screen. Dear White People In this violent but sadly familiar scene for black citizens from the fifth episode of the series, an argument breaks out at a party between a black student, Reggie, and a white student, Addison. In the mini-series based on the Central Park jogger case, director Ava DuVernay retells the story of five ethnic-minority teenagers wrongly accused of raping a white woman in 1989. Orange Is the New Black In the Netflix series, which broke new ground in denouncing prison violence, racism is always close at hand.

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Taylor Schilling says she felt ‘hurt’ over changing reactions to Orange is the New Black

2 years, 11 months ago

Taylor Schilling says she felt ‘hurt’ over changing reactions to Orange is the New Black

The Independent

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The 45 films and TV shows in Netflix’s new ‘Black Lives Matter’ collection

4 years, 6 months ago

The 45 films and TV shows in Netflix’s new ‘Black Lives Matter’ collection

The Independent

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Netflix is making a comedy set in the coronavirus outbreak

4 years, 8 months ago

Netflix is making a comedy set in the coronavirus outbreak

LA Times

“Orange Is the New Black” creator Jenji Kohan will produce a Netflix series set and filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic. As hundreds of films and TV series around the world have shuttered to help stem the tide of the novel coronavirus, a new Netflix comedy aims to adapt production around quarantine. “Social Distance,” an upcoming anthology series from “Orange Is …

Orange is the New Black: Netflix show launches fund to reform criminal justice system

5 years, 5 months ago

Orange is the New Black: Netflix show launches fund to reform criminal justice system

The Independent

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Orange Is the New Black: Netflix reveals release date of final season with first teaser video

5 years, 7 months ago

Orange Is the New Black: Netflix reveals release date of final season with first teaser video

The Independent

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'White Robes and Broken Badges' exposes the inner workings of the Ku Klux Klan

4 months, 4 weeks ago

'White Robes and Broken Badges' exposes the inner workings of the Ku Klux Klan

NPR

'White Robes and Broken Badges' exposes the inner workings of the Ku Klux Klan TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. In his new book, "White Robes And Broken Badges," Moore gives a firsthand account of his experiences infiltrating the KKK's invisible empire and the rise in white supremacy ideology, specifically within law enforcement in Florida where he lived. He's …

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Ferguson officer critically injured at protest on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death

4 months, 4 weeks ago

Ferguson officer critically injured at protest on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death

Associated Press

A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer was critically injured outside the city’s police station during protests on the 10th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a pivotal moment in the national Black Lives Matter movement, police said Saturday. Ferguson police chief Troy Doyle said Officer Travis Brown suffered a severe brain injury Friday after being knocked to the ground. …

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10 years after Michael Brown's death, police killings are not going down

5 months ago

10 years after Michael Brown's death, police killings are not going down

NPR

10 years after Michael Brown's death, police killings are not going down toggle caption Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images Annissa McCaskill remembers exactly where she was when she heard about Michael Brown. “The emphasis on things like training, tweaking the policies, creating some oversight mechanism through things like body cameras and civilian review boards, were designed to get police to follow …

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Bannon to serve term in prison that inspired 'Orange is the New Black': report

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Bannon to serve term in prison that inspired 'Orange is the New Black': report

Raw Story

Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon will not serve his prison sentence in one of the more highly-sought "Club Fed" facilities he'd hoped for. Instead, CNN's Katelyn Polantz reported Monday, Bannon is headed to the same prison in Danbury, Connecticut, that housed the woman whose memoir inspired the hit Netflix series, "Orange Is the New Black." "So Steve Bannon wanted …

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Los Angeles’ mass uprisings in search of Black justice have punctuated my life, and my library

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Los Angeles’ mass uprisings in search of Black justice have punctuated my life, and my library

LA Times

Book review Ash Dark as Night By Gary Phillips Soho Crime: 312 pages, $27.95 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The most recent addition to my library is Gary Phillips’ excellent “Ash Dark as Night,” his second book featuring Harry Ingram, a Black freelance photographer …

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Takeaways: AP investigation reveals Black people bear disproportionate impact of police force

9 months, 1 week ago

Takeaways: AP investigation reveals Black people bear disproportionate impact of police force

Associated Press

PATERSON, N.J. — Black people accounted for a disproportionate number of people who died after being restrained, beaten or shocked with stun guns by police officers in the United States, according to an investigation by The Associated Press. Here are some takeaways from AP’s reporting: The numbers The AP found more than 330 Black people died after encounters with police …

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Opinion: I wrote a Black true crime book 20 years ago. Why is the genre still so white?

11 months, 4 weeks ago

Opinion: I wrote a Black true crime book 20 years ago. Why is the genre still so white?

LA Times

Before true crime had its recent resurgence in American popular culture, I began investigating the murder of Lance Herndon, a Black man. As Janet Nguyen wrote for Marketplace in 2022: “ True crime now consists of seemingly countless sub-genres, spanning multiple platforms that include network and cable television, streaming services and podcasts.” It also attracts a diverse audience: True crime …

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Commentary: For all of its joy, ‘The Color Purple’ is also a chance to talk about Black women and intimate partner violence

1 year ago

Commentary: For all of its joy, ‘The Color Purple’ is also a chance to talk about Black women and intimate partner violence

LA Times

Although the bold new “Color Purple” has bursts of joy and plenty of energy, the film would have been untrue to Alice Walker’s original story if it had ignored or sugarcoated the physical and emotional abuse that protagonist Celie endures. At their core, all iterations of “The Color Purple,” including the new film version co-starring Taraji P. Henson, left, as …

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After Jacksonville shootings, historically Black colleges address security concerns, remain vigilant

1 year, 4 months ago

After Jacksonville shootings, historically Black colleges address security concerns, remain vigilant

Associated Press

Before the fatal shootings of three Black residents in Jacksonville, Florida, over the weekend, the gunman, a young white man with swastikas painted on his rifle, pulled into a parking lot at Edward Waters University and began putting on tactical gear. “This notion of us against them, Black versus white, is being promoted.” While the shootings took place at a …

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Opinion: Black women are the unseen victims of police brutality. Why aren’t we talking about it?

1 year, 5 months ago

Opinion: Black women are the unseen victims of police brutality. Why aren’t we talking about it?

LA Times

Protesters gather at a mural of Breonna Taylor in Milwaukee after a grand jury in Louisville, Ky., did not bring murder charges against the three police officers who killed her. Black women make up around 10% of the female population in the U.S., yet they account for one-fifth of all women killed by the police and almost one-third of unarmed …

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Black Ops review: Police sitcom is charming enough, but it lacks bite

1 year, 8 months ago

Black Ops review: Police sitcom is charming enough, but it lacks bite

The Independent

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New AP/ABC film probes white supremacy in law enforcement

1 year, 8 months ago

New AP/ABC film probes white supremacy in law enforcement

Associated Press

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Dozens of robed Ku Klux Klansmen gathered around a burning cross in a remote field in North Florida. The story of the klan’s murder plot and the hitman’s secret recordings made over months in 2015 formed the basis of an Associated Press 2021 investigative series called “The Badge and The Cross,” which used the story as a …

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New AP/ABC film probes white supremacy in law enforcement

1 year, 8 months ago

New AP/ABC film probes white supremacy in law enforcement

The Independent

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Videos of police brutality can perpetuate Black trauma

1 year, 10 months ago

Videos of police brutality can perpetuate Black trauma

Al Jazeera

It has been two months since Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black American, was brutally beaten by police officers in Memphis, Tennessee and succumbed to his injuries three days later. Like previous violent deaths of Black people in the United States, this one was also accompanied by the release of graphic footage which was circulated widely by news outlets and on …

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Tyre Nichols' killers were Black. Race still matters

1 year, 11 months ago

Tyre Nichols' killers were Black. Race still matters

LA Times

I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023. Both The Times’ editorial board and op-ed contributor Erin Aubry Kaplan addressed this point after the Memphis Police Department released the video of its officers beating Nichols. ‘It takes off the table that issues and problems in law enforcement about race,’ Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis, who is Black, told …

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Advocates: Black cops not exempt from anti-Black policing

1 year, 11 months ago

Advocates: Black cops not exempt from anti-Black policing

The Independent

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Advocates: Black cops not exempt from anti-Black policing

1 year, 11 months ago

Advocates: Black cops not exempt from anti-Black policing

Associated Press

NEW YORK — That the death of Tyre Nichols — young, Black, just trying to get home — came at the hands of Memphis police officers was a familiar refrain in the nation’s seemingly endless lamentation of racism and police brutality aimed at Black people. That’s what creates the difference.” The key question is “why does policing show differently for …

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Tyre Nichols case revives calls for change in police culture

1 year, 11 months ago

Tyre Nichols case revives calls for change in police culture

Associated Press

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An unarmed Black man dies after a videotaped beating by police. “I don’t know how much more cumulative Black death our community should have to pay to convince elected officials that the policing system isn’t broken — it’s working exactly as it was designed to, at the expense of Black life,” said Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, co-executive director …

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Op-Ed: What finally sunk me on the Memphis videos? Five Black officers’ embrace of racist depravity

1 year, 11 months ago

Op-Ed: What finally sunk me on the Memphis videos? Five Black officers’ embrace of racist depravity

LA Times

Protest signs in front of the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters on Saturday, the day after the release of videos of Tyre Nichols being beaten by officers in Memphis, Tenn. Of course, they all do, all the deaths of Black people at the hands of police, deaths that continue to be among the most painful and potent reminders that racism …

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What Tyre Nichols’ death at the hands of Black officers says about race in policing

1 year, 11 months ago

What Tyre Nichols’ death at the hands of Black officers says about race in policing

LA Times

Demonstrators outside the White House on Friday call for justice for Tyre Nichols and action against police brutality. The cycle of police violence and protest in America has so often been told as a story of white officers killing Black men that three words — “Black lives matter” — stand as global shorthand. “There is no panacea with having Black …

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Kaleidoscope: Netflix tells viewers how to watch series ‘as a Tarantino movie’

2 years ago

Kaleidoscope: Netflix tells viewers how to watch series ‘as a Tarantino movie’

The Independent

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Black prison staff face overt racism and slurs at work, probe finds

2 years ago

Black prison staff face overt racism and slurs at work, probe finds

The Independent

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Opinion: This film is a timely reminder of what patriotism looks like

2 years, 1 month ago

Opinion: This film is a timely reminder of what patriotism looks like

CNN

Editor’s Note: Jemar Tisby, PhD is the author of “The Color of Compromise and How to Fight Racism.” He is a professor of history at Simmons College of Kentucky and regularly writes at JemarTisby.Substack.com. His discharge records, which my aunt read to me after his death, indicated he attained the rank of Airman 2nd Class, and he served as a …

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What So Many Refuse to See in a Horrifying New Arkansas Police Video

2 years, 4 months ago

What So Many Refuse to See in a Horrifying New Arkansas Police Video

Slate

A horrifying incident this weekend in Mulberry, Arkansas, has marked the latest chapter of America’s ongoing conversation about police violence. In addition to the high-profile cases of police violence that we have become familiar with in past years, we have also recently witnessed various forms of other misconduct by law enforcement. The bill was largely intended to address systemic racism …

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A look inside the ‘Disneyland’ prison Ghislaine Maxwell hopes to spend her 20-year sentence in

2 years, 6 months ago

A look inside the ‘Disneyland’ prison Ghislaine Maxwell hopes to spend her 20-year sentence in

The Independent

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'Why Does Black Teen Get Knee in Back, White Man Sat on Sofa?': US Police Slammed On Racial Bias in Mall Fight Video

2 years, 10 months ago

'Why Does Black Teen Get Knee in Back, White Man Sat on Sofa?': US Police Slammed On Racial Bias in Mall Fight Video

News 18

A video of US police violently tackling a Black teenager during a mall fight with a young white man has sparked outrage, prompting the state’s governor to condemn what appeared to be “racially disparate treatment.” The video — posted earlier this week by the platform Storyful and picked up by ABC, CBS and CNN — shows a fistfight breaking out …

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Taylor Schilling: ‘I started to feel like I was just a space-holder in Orange is the New Black’

2 years, 11 months ago

Taylor Schilling: ‘I started to feel like I was just a space-holder in Orange is the New Black’

The Independent

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What is the future of the cop drama?

3 years, 1 month ago

What is the future of the cop drama?

BBC

What is the future of the cop drama? Alamy Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor Terry Crews said the rewrite of the eighth series in the wake of Black Lives Matter was an "opportunity" Dr Mareike Jenner, senior lecturer in Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK, and author of American TV Detective Dramas: Serial Investigations, is among those calling for …

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Column: Reintroducing the series ‘Black L.A.: Looking at Diversity,’ 39 years later

3 years, 3 months ago

Column: Reintroducing the series ‘Black L.A.: Looking at Diversity,’ 39 years later

LA Times

This photo was taken as part of the 1982 series “Black L.A.: Looking at Diversity” from a story Sandy Banks wrote on Black families living in San Fernando Valley neighborhoods that had for decades been whites-only. The year was 1982 and, like most of my Black newsroom colleagues, I was still wounded and fuming over an incendiary front-page series The …

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Black fear of Tulsa police lingers 100 years after massacre

3 years, 7 months ago

Black fear of Tulsa police lingers 100 years after massacre

Associated Press

TULSA, Okla. — There’s been undeniable progress in the relationship between the Tulsa police and the city’s Black community in the past 100 years. “Here in Tulsa, explicitly and specifically, there’s not a really good relationship between law enforcement and the Black community, Black and brown communities,” she said. “This is someone who doesn’t believe — someone who looks like …

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Black fear of Tulsa police lingers 100 years after massacre

3 years, 7 months ago

Black fear of Tulsa police lingers 100 years after massacre

LA Times

There’s been undeniable progress in the relationship between the Tulsa police and the city’s Black community in the past 100 years. “But how far does that change really go when the doors are closed?” In a 2018 Gallup-Tulsa Citivoice Index poll designed to measure quality-of-life issues, only 18% of Black residents said they trust police “a lot,” compared with 49% …

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The reason Hollywood wanted to nix Tulsa Race Massacre docs

3 years, 7 months ago

The reason Hollywood wanted to nix Tulsa Race Massacre docs

LA Times

When filmmaker Jonathan Silvers got the idea a few years ago to make a documentary about the 1921 annihilation of Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Okla. — the most deadly and destructive racist attack in U.S. history — he imagined he would have no trouble finding a distributor. The other documentaries airing this weekend are “Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race …

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Black Americans' collective racial trauma is a serious public health issue, warn experts

3 years, 8 months ago

Black Americans' collective racial trauma is a serious public health issue, warn experts

Firstpost

Many Black Americans are facing a collective sense of grief and trauma that has grown more profound with the loss of each life at the hands of police in America. “It’s not normal to see someone get murdered by the click of a video on your phone, yet it has become the norm for our people, our Black and brown …

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Black Americans experiencing collective trauma, grief

3 years, 8 months ago

Black Americans experiencing collective trauma, grief

Associated Press

Carlil Pittman knows trauma firsthand. “It’s not normal to see someone get murdered by the click of a video on your phone, yet it has become the norm for our people, our Black and brown communities.” Many Black Americans are facing a collective sense of grief and trauma that has grown more profound with the loss of each life at …

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Column: There’s a fight over the direction of Black Lives Matter. The timing couldn’t be worse

3 years, 8 months ago

Column: There’s a fight over the direction of Black Lives Matter. The timing couldn’t be worse

LA Times

It’s unfortunate and yet somehow also entirely predictable that the airing of Black Lives Matter’s dirty laundry would happen during the trial of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin. However, in a statement issued earlier this month, Black Lives Matter L.A. said it owes Simpson no money and that it operates “primarily as a power-building organization, not a social service organization” …

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Orange shooting gunman knew his victims and how to trap them

3 years, 9 months ago

Orange shooting gunman knew his victims and how to trap them

LA Times

Police respond to the shooting, the third mass shooting in the U.S. in two weeks. The suspect is Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez, a 44-year-old man last known to be living in Anaheim who police said had a “business and personal relationship” with the victims. So he will suffer and face the consequences.” Police recovered a semiautomatic handgun and a backpack with …

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‘We turn a blind eye': Boston’s police remain largely white

3 years, 10 months ago

‘We turn a blind eye': Boston’s police remain largely white

Associated Press

BOSTON — For years, Boston city leaders have vowed to diversify the police department so it looks more like the community it serves. “It’s an honor to serve as a police officer and serve the citizens of Boston, but to this day, I don’t feel like I have been completely accepted,” said Larry Ellison, a Black Boston police detective who’s …

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Law enforcement diversity may improve policing, study shows

3 years, 10 months ago

Law enforcement diversity may improve policing, study shows

Associated Press

CHICAGO — In the last decade, high-profile police killings — including George Floyd in 2020 — have shaken the nation and led to widespread protests and calls for reform, including hiring more nonwhite and female officers. “We just haven’t had good data on what reforms work.” For the paper, Knox and his colleagues analyzed data on nearly 3 million Chicago …

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We need more ‘trauma-free Blackness.’ Here’s a start

3 years, 11 months ago

We need more ‘trauma-free Blackness.’ Here’s a start

CNN

CNN — I was scrolling through Facebook one evening when I noticed an odd image that someone had posted on my page. Almost every movie about Black people in South Central has focused on gangs – “Akeelah” is about a humble girl’s brilliance. Tyler Perry’s “Madea” movies – Some say the “Madea” movies are modern-day minstrel shows that reinforce stereotypes …

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Hundreds of US police departments considerably more white than their communities, data shows

4 years, 3 months ago

Hundreds of US police departments considerably more white than their communities, data shows

The Independent

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Cases like Breonna Taylor’s highlight Black women are ‘not safe anywhere,’ #SayHerName campaign founder says

4 years, 3 months ago

Cases like Breonna Taylor’s highlight Black women are ‘not safe anywhere,’ #SayHerName campaign founder says

CNN

CNN — Breonna Taylor’s name echoed in the streets of US cities for months after she was fatally shot by Louisville police in her apartment. “Hopefully people can see the problem is much deeper than a few bad apples.” Video Ad Feedback The difference between law and justice 10:29 - Source: CNN ‘All Black lives matter’ The #SayHerName campaign, launched …

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How HBO's Perry Mason, Watchmen underscore existential tension of policing while Black, in the US

4 years, 4 months ago

How HBO's Perry Mason, Watchmen underscore existential tension of policing while Black, in the US

Firstpost

In the new HBO adaptation of Erle Stanley Gardner’s stories, we meet the beloved mystery-solving trio of Perry Mason, Della Street and Paul Drake in 1932, a year before the first Perry Mason novel was published. It’s something Perry, Della and Paul learn the hard way as they solve the “kidnapping gone horribly wrong” mystery in the first season. Paul …

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The Old Guard director Gina Prince-Bythewood talks about becoming first Black woman to make a comic book movie

4 years, 5 months ago

The Old Guard director Gina Prince-Bythewood talks about becoming first Black woman to make a comic book movie

Firstpost

The year 2020 is a watershed one for director Gina Prince-Bythewood, even if it does not look exactly like she thought it would. A few months ago, as Prince-Bythewood began to put the finishing touches on her new Charlize Theron action film, The Old Guard, she was eager to share her moment with directors like Cathy Yan, Niki Caro and …

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#AskReuters: Why the U.S. protests against police brutality are different this time

4 years, 6 months ago

#AskReuters: Why the U.S. protests against police brutality are different this time

Firstpost

By Beatrix Lockwood - Protests over the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and other Black Americans have ignited a national conversation about the role of law enforcement in society. Certainly, civil rights demonstrations were interracial in the past, as were more recent Black Lives Matter uprisings, but we are witnessing a growing diversity amongst the protesters, …

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Black Lives Matter | Michael Holding delivers stirring message against racism

4 years, 6 months ago

Black Lives Matter | Michael Holding delivers stirring message against racism

The Hindu

An emotional Michael Holding didn’t hold back as he delivered a powerful message against racism on Wednesday, asserting that the black race has been dehumanised and its accomplishments wiped off from a history “written by people who do the harm”. “If you look at the plays of those days, Judas who betrayed Jesus, he is a black man, again brainwashing …

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Black professor: My hope for my students in fight for racial justice (Opinion)

4 years, 6 months ago

Black professor: My hope for my students in fight for racial justice (Opinion)

CNN

Editor’s Note: Herbert Lowe is a lecturer at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications and a past president of the National Association of Black Journalists. Herbert Lowe Emily Dever Long before smartphones began recording instances of excessive force, I, like so many other young Black men, had run-ins with police. As one of too few African American …

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Is 'Watchmen' Copaganda Or A Case For Abolition?

4 years, 6 months ago

Is 'Watchmen' Copaganda Or A Case For Abolition?

Huff Post

Actor Regina King in HBO's "Watchmen." This arc seems to suggest that systemic racism in policing can be fixed when “good cops” like Angela get rid of “bad cops.” But “Watchmen” could also be read as a case for abolition. It sets up a world in which we’re repeatedly shown that “good cops” and policing as we know it is …

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Eric Andre refused to let ‘middle-aged white people’ at Netflix cut police prank from comedy special

4 years, 6 months ago

Eric Andre refused to let ‘middle-aged white people’ at Netflix cut police prank from comedy special

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Eric Andre refused to let the “middle-aged white people” at Netflix …

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George Floyd protests: Viewership of TV shows, films, documentaries about race surges on Netflix, HBO Max, Apple TV

4 years, 6 months ago

George Floyd protests: Viewership of TV shows, films, documentaries about race surges on Netflix, HBO Max, Apple TV

Firstpost

Streaming networks have highlighted programming by black creators in recent weeks as protests swelled over the killing of African American George Floyd in US police custody Television series, movies, and documentaries about the experience of black people in the United States have seen a surge in viewership as public demonstrations have focused new attention on racial discrimination, according to industry …

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