By signing up you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, Reporter covering education, foreign affairs, Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events, check back here on the project’s websites for additions, Throughline podcast on the history of policing in the United States, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, Democracy Now: Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing, A 7-year-old student’s telling answers on a worksheet titled ‘Police Protect Us’, Happening Yesterday, Happened Tomorrow: Teaching the ongoing murders of black men, How Chicago’s Public Schools Are Teaching the History of Police Torture, The Murder of Sean Bell: From Pain to Poetry, Remembering Red Summer — Which Textbooks Seem Eager to Forget, ‘What We Want, What We Believe’: Teaching with the Black Panthers’ Ten Point Program, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, Student Athletes Kneel to Level the Playing Field, Violence in Minneapolis is rooted in the history of racist policing in America: Police violence against African Americans has persisted for centuries, ‘We will overcome whatever [it] is the system has become today’: Black Women’s Organizing Against Police Violence in New York City in the 1980s, Gordon Parks’s 1960s Protest Photos Reflect the Long History of Police Brutality in the United States, The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States, website of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), police brutality and protests of the police, We Came to Learn: A Call to Action for Police-Free Schools, Documenting National Organizing toward #POLICEFREESCHOOLS, Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland.

A growing list of campaigns and resources to inform ongoing organizing in schools in defense of black lives. Throughline: American Police: The origins of policing in the United States, starting with slave patrols. The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett 1895. But this tension between African American communities and the police has existed for centuries.

For assistance accessing our public files, please call 916-278-8900 or email us. “#7. How do you think the connection between early police officers and getting people to the polls shaped legislation and the political atmosphere of the U.S. for the decades that followed? Every headline has a history.

One of the calls made by protesters is for reform in police departments, including calls to defund them, meaning to divert money from their budgets to social, health and educational programs.

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By Robert Trujillo, Trust Your Struggle Collective. With police reform front and center in the national debate, it’s a good time to learn about the history of policing in the United States. Every headline has a history. Privacy Policy | Website Feedback

An article about Chicago’s citywide curriculum that requires the history of police torture be taught in all eighth- and 10th-grade public school social studies classes.

Think about the story that Khalil Gibran Muhammad tells at the beginning of the episode about the arbitration hearing. These are stories you can feel and sounds you can see from the Every headline has a history. Throughline: American Police Listen: Today we’re highlighting the podcast Throughline by NPR. What do you think was the intention behind deputizing, by law, almost all white men to be slave patrollers? How Chicago’s Public Schools Are Teaching the History of Police Torture by Thai Jones. SNCC Digital Gateway Often missing from lessons on the civil rights movement are the demands to end police brutality and violence by other white supremacists. The past is never past. Stream the Throughline episode, American Police, free & on demand on iHeartRadio. A truth many Americans are acknowledging since the murder of George Floyd, as protests have occurred in all fifty states calling for justice on his behalf.

The most important news stories of the day, curated by Post editors and delivered every morning. If you would like to read more about the topic: We love to hear from our listeners! Tweet at us @throughlineNPR, send us an email, or leave us a voicemail at (872) 588-8805. Join us every week as we go back in time to understand the present. A 7-year-old student’s telling answers on a worksheet titled ‘Police Protect Us’ by Valerie Strauss (The Washington Post, June 2, 2020), Happening Yesterday, Happened Tomorrow: Teaching the ongoing murders of black men by Renée Watson (Rethinking Schools).
“Fruitvale Station” by Ryan Coogler about the murder of Oscar Grant. The Murder of Sean Bell: From Pain to Poetry by Renée Watson (Rethinking Schools), Remembering Red Summer — Which Textbooks Seem Eager to Forget by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca (Zinn Education Project), ‘What We Want, What We Believe’: Teaching with the Black Panthers’ Ten Point Program by Wayne Au (Rethinking Schools), “Chokehold: Policing Black Men” by Paul Butler, “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color” by Andrea J. Ritchie, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander, “Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas” by Sally E. Hadden, “Teaching for Black Lives” edited by Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au.

Throughline: American Police: The origins of policing in the United States, starting with slave patrols. Sacramento, CA 95826-2625. As part of our People’s Historians Online series, we hosted a special session with Keisha N. Blain on the “Roots of the 2020 Rebellion,” focused on the history of policing. But this tension between African American communities and the police has existed for centuries. Other findings include: 87 percent of Democrats said they support the protests, as do 76 percent of independents and 53 percent of Republicans. Art: Mural of Oscar Grant.
FCC Public Files: KXJZ KKTO KUOP KQNC KXPR KXSR KXJS. The past is never past. A truth many Americans are acknowledging since the murder of George Floyd, as protests have occurred in all fifty states calling for justice on his behalf. Gordon Parks’s 1960s Protest Photos Reflect the Long History of Police Brutality in the United States by Daria Harper in Artsy. Listen to episodes of Throughline on Podbay. To get started, we recommend the “Throughline podcast on the history of policing in the United States” with Harvard professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad. Listen: Today we’re highlighting the podcast Throughline by NPR.

A new Washington Post-Schar School poll reports that a big majority of Americans support the protests that have been held across the country since the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody — and they say that police forces need to do more to treat blacks equally with whites. “When They See Us” by Ava DuVernay about the false arrest and imprisonment of five teenagers known as the Central Park Five. Subscribe to Civics 101 on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Black Americans being victimized and killed by the police is an epidemic.

Features Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of … ), Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee veteran, lawyer, and Teaching for Change board member Tim Jenkins gives a 90-second history lesson about who the police “protect and serve.”, A lesson on voting rights and suppression that students won’t learn in textbooks, ‘Teaching for Black Lives’ — a handbook to fight America’s ferocious racism in (virtual or face-to-face) classrooms. © 2020, Capital Public Radio. Features Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of “The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America.”. All Rights Reserved. The most recent episode looks at American police, and how violent control of Black Americans was built into our system of law enforcement from the beginning. Join us every week as we go back in time to understand the present. The past is never past. “Slavery by Another Name” by Sam Pollard, Catherine Allan, Douglas Blackmon, and Sheila Curran Bernard about false arrests of African Americans to feed the convict leasing system. (Also see 13th. These are stories you can feel and sounds you can see from the moments that shaped our world. Learn more and download. American Police Black Americans being victimized and killed by the police is an epidemic. 7055 Folsom Boulevard This week, the origins of American policing and how those origins put violent control of Black Americans at the heart of the system. Eight-one percent said police need to reform to ensure equal treatment for whites and blacks, the poll said. Big majorities support protests over Floyd killing and say police need to change, poll finds. CapRadio stations are licensed to California State University, Sacramento. Therefore, we offer resources below to teach outside the textbook in middle and high school classrooms about police throughout U.S. history. Student Athletes Kneel to Level the Playing Field by Jesse Hagopian (Rethinking Schools, 2017), Violence in Minneapolis is rooted in the history of racist policing in America: Police violence against African Americans has persisted for centuries by Keisha N. Blain (The Washington Post, May 30). There are many more books, articles and films on the topic — these are just a few student-friendly suggestions. But in this episode on the American police system, the first thing emphasized is that there isn’t as much history here as one might expect. Black Americans being victimized and killed by the police is an epidemic.

A white man with a record? The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond.

Also see books for children and young adults on the Social Justice Books Incarceration list, including a young readers’ edition of “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson. We Came to Learn: A Call to Action for Police-Free Schools A report from the Advancement Project offers the history of how school police became institutionalized in the public education system in the United States, documents the negative impact on students of color, and offers a guide for how to take action.

You can check back here on the project’s websites for additions that will be made to the list below. You can listen on their website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or by clicking the image below. Many stories at the website of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) highlight the role of the police and organizing to defend communities. Hosted by Rund Abdelfatah and Ratim Arablouei, Throughline is a podcast that tracks the history of events, institutions, and more to highlight the ways in which the past is not past.