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43) Black in America
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"Racial bias against African Americans remains part of the fabric of American life, 400 years after the first African slaves stepped off a ship docking near Jamestown, Virginia. Black people often face violent attacks simply because they are Black"--
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An NBA veteran offers engaging interviews and reflections that explore police brutality, white supremacy, and the struggle for racial justice in America. ETAN THOMAS, an eleven-year NBA veteran and lifelong advocate for social justice, weaves together his personal experiences with police violence and white supremacy with multiple interviews of family members of victims of police brutality like exonerated Central Park Five survivor Raymond Santana...
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"Policing Black Bodies goes beyond chronicling isolated incidents of injustice to look at the broader systems of inequality in our society--how they're structured, how they harm Black people, and how we can work for positive change. The book discusses the school-to-prison pipeline, mass incarceration and the prison boom, the unique ways Black women and trans people are treated, wrongful convictions and the challenges of exoneration, and more. Each...
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"Black Americans are disproportionately affected by police violence. One central part of the Black Lives Matter Movement calls for an end to this violence. The Police and Excessive Use of Force examines the history of policing in America, including the history of excessive force being used against Black Americans"--
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"An inside look at how police officers are trained to perpetuate state violence. Michael Brown. Philando Castile. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. As the names of those killed by the police became cemented into public memory, the American public took to the streets in unprecedented numbers to mourn, organize, and demand changes to the current system of policing. In response, police departments across the country committed themselves to change, pledging...
49) Police reform
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"Anthology of licensed articles and introductory text and resource material exploring the issue of police reform"--
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"A probing collection of essays and interviews addressing police brutality and racial injustice. Policing has become one of the urgent issues of our time, the target of dramatic movements and front-page coverage from coast to coast in the United States and across the world. Now a wide-ranging collection of writers and activists offers a global response, describing ongoing struggles from New York to Ferguson to Los Angeles, as well as London, San Juan,...
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"Recognizing that an historic study of American racism and police violence should become part of today's canon, Jelani Cobb contextualizes it for a new generation. The Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination, is among a handful of government reports that reads like an illuminating history book-a dramatic, often shocking, exploration of systemic racism that transcends its time. Yet Columbia University...
53) Black and blue
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"Black and blue is an in-depth novel exploring issues around police shootings of unarmed Blacks. It follows Detective Givens, a Black detective assigned to investigate the shooting of a Black man by a White officer. As he investigates, he realizes the issues of unemployment and poverty, drug addiction, political indifference, media sensationalism, and community resistance are deeply connected to this case"--
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Directed by Oscar-nominated and NAACP Image Award winner David Massey, this dynamic documentary features legal experts, local activists, and law enforcement officers delving into ongoing charges of inequality, unfair practices, and politicized manipulations of America's judicial system. Additionally, the Black Lives Matter movement and citizens nationwide question the staggering number of police shootings of unarmed Black men and women.
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"Fill the void. Lift your voice. Say Her Name. Black women, girls, and femmes as young as seven and as old as ninety-three have been killed by the police, though we rarely hear their names or learn their stories. Breonna Taylor, Alberta Spruill, Rekia Boyd, Shantel Davis, Shelly Frey, Kayla Moore, Kyam Livingston, Miriam Carey, Michelle Cusseaux, and Tanisha Anderson are among the many lives that should have been. #SayHerName provides an analytical...
58) Black and blue
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An investigative look at nationwide police brutality. The August 2014, the killing of Michael Brown and the ensuing social and media upheaval become the backdrop for this hard-hitting documentary expose of everyday citizens and their sometimes violent and inequitable relationship with police. Includes the voices of law enforcement and those directly affected by police violence and shootings.
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"In 2020, police killings caught on bystander video placed US police under scrutiny and spurred activists to call for reform. Learn the history and factors behind police brutality in the US, especially in Black communities. Now in Spanish!"--Provided by publisher.
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"Ferguson became the impetus for a national movement. Soon, other fatal officer-involved encounters with black suspects drew similar scrutiny. In South Carolina, officer Michael Slager was charged with murder in the death of 50-year-old Walter Scott after cellphone video appeared to show the North Charleston officer shooting the man in the back. The death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore led to charges against six police officers and massive...
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