police brutality

WYPR News

Brown wants Attorney General’s office to handle prosecutions around police killings in Maryland

Matt Bush

Maryland's newest Attorney General Anthony Brown said he seeks to build public trust in law enforcement.

Protesters take over a bridge Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn., after authorities released police video depicting five Memphis officers beating Tyre Nichols, a 29 year-old Black man whose death resulted in murder charges against the officers, and provoked nationwide outrage and protests over the country's latest instance of police brutality. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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The Tyre Nichols murder: again, a nation feeling anguish and anger

Tom Hall

Donell Barnett, president of the Association of Black Psychologists, joins us to discuss how the latest police killing of a young Black man has inflicted new trauma on the African American community.

Dr. Jelani Cobb teaches journalism at Columbia University and is a staff writer at The New Yorker

Programs

Jelani Cobb: Revisiting the 1968 Kerner Comm. report on US racism

Tom Hall

The award-winning journalist, educator and commentator offers a modern context for the landmark 1968 study of racism and police violence.

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The Daily Dose 6-08-20

Aaron Henkin

A look at a persistent COVID-19 hot-spot in Maryland: The prison system. A recap of the weekend's demonstrations in Baltimore, calling for an end to…