This is an important study on what those who live in America’s most overpoliced neighborhoods think of their situation. I know of no survey that’s this comprehensive and directly conversan
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has an excellent essay at The New Yorker today, showing how current protests and uprisings have fewer parallels to the 1960s than they do to the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, expl
Earlier this week Chicago Police Department officers beat the president of the Chicago Police Board during a protest in Hyde Park. The board president declared himself to not be mad about it: Officers
Not to step on Erik’s “On Rioting” post from earlier today, and I have never just screen-grabbed and posted a Twitter thread before, but LGM readers would do well to learn from peopl
When I’ve posted things in recent months that indicate my support of Bernie Sanders’ candidacy for president, it has not been lost on me that factions of the LGM commentariat have essentia
Continuing the week-long roundtable on my book over at the African American Intellectual History Society, historian Max Felker-Kantor weighed in yesterday to highlight the things my book points out im
On Monday I noted that the African American Intellectual History Society is hosting a week-long roundtable on my book. I forgot to post a link to yesterday’s contribution, so here it is. It̵
Two years ago this weekend, I was supposed to be at a conference in Sacramento. Then a few weeks before that trip was scheduled to happen, a New Yorker friend of mine texted me to say that the woman h
