COINTELPRO may not be a well-understood acronym but its meaning and continuing impact are absolutely central to understanding the government’s wars and repression against progressive movements. COINTELPRO represents the state’s strategy to prevent movements and communities from overturning white supremacy and creating racial justice. COINTELPRO is both a formal program of the FBI and a [...]
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41ST & CENTRAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE L.A. BLACK PANTHERS is the first part in a documentary series that follows the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party from its glorious Black Power beginnings through to its tragic demise. Despite the Party’s formation of free medical clinics and a successful breakfast program for [...] Raised in the Athens Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Cle “Bone” Sloan was four years old when his father died, and 12 when he became a member of the Bloods. Now an inactive member of the notorious gang, Sloan looks back at the history of black gangs in his city and makes a powerful call [...] An on-air and online investigation into questionable police shootings by the New Orleans Police Department in the wake of Katrina. 1: The Torched Corpse By Brendan McCarthy and Laura Maggi, staff writers Times-Picayune Published: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 11:45 PM Updated: Thursday, November 11, 2010, 7:13 AM Former New Orleans police officer David Warren fired his personal assault rifle at an unarmed man who was trying to run away, his partner told a federal jury Wednesday in the first [...] Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune Published: Monday, November 08, 2010, 7:37 AM Updated: Monday, November 08, 2010, 9:31 AM Two years after they launched the first in a series of civil rights probes into the New Orleans Police Department, which have resulted in charges against 20 officers in four separate cases to date, federal prosecutors will [...] LOS ANGELES — Police made more than 150 arrests in Oakland Friday after a judge in Los Angeles sentenced a former transit officer to two years in prison in the shooting death of an unarmed man on a BART train platform. BY John Marzulli and Bill Hutchinson Daily News Staff Writers Originally Published:Tuesday, July 27th 2010, 6:28 PM Updated: Tuesday, July 27th 2010, 6:28 PM The city agreed Tuesday to pay more than $7 million to settle a wrongful death civil suit lodged by the fiancée and pals of Sean Bell, the unarmed black groom gunned [...] “A former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for fatally shooting an unarmed man at an Oakland subway station. Johannes Mehserle was found guilty on Thursday in the 2009 killing of 22-year-old Oscar Grant. Involuntary manslaughter carries a sentence of two to four years. Sentencing is slated for Aug. 6. Court [...] |
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