Video: James Baldwin on “The Negro and the American Promise” | PBS

This is a curated version of a PBS extra I will be referencing in an upcoming piece.


 

James Baldwin on “The Negro and the American Promise”

James Baldwin appears in Boston public television producer Henry Morgenthau III’s “The Negro and the American Promise,” alongside Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. The New York Times described the James Baldwin segment as “a television experience that seared the conscience.” Continue reading Video: James Baldwin on “The Negro and the American Promise” | PBS

POLL: Whites More Likely To OK Police Striking People

WASHINGTON (AP) — Whites in the United States approve of police officers hitting people in far greater numbers than blacks and Hispanics do, at a time when the country is struggling to deal with police use of deadly force against men of color, according to a major American trend survey.

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March 2015’s #PoliceBrutality output in one photo

Brutality, increasingly, reigns king in America. The month of March 2015 was the police state’s most prolific ever in terms of output. In fact, it was so prolific that in one month, our police forces have managed to kill more people than individual countries have since the turn of last century. Continue reading March 2015’s #PoliceBrutality output in one photo