Jamal Rich
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jamal Rich
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Opinion
Prison and police abolition: Re-imagining public safety and liberation
June 30, 2020Because capitalism is built on racism, anti-racist struggles are fundamental to its undoing.
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Politics
#ShutDownSTEM: Scientists strike, halt research to focus on Black lives
June 11, 2020The STEM academic research community held a work-stoppage in response to the mass uprising following Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and the countless other police murders.
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U.S.
Another police killing during COVID-19: Seeking justice for Finan Berhe
May 27, 2020On May 7, 2020, a 30-year old Black man was killed by police in the White Oak suburb of Silver Spring, Md., outside his home. His name was Finan Berhe.
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News
From ‘Free Angela Davis’ to #NoNewJailsDC: Organizing against incarceration across generations
May 22, 2020The event featured elders from the Communist Party USA who were involved in the Committee to Free Angela Davis and the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
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U.S.
Black youth stage Emancipation Day protest for D.C. inmates amid COVID-19 crisis
April 20, 2020Emancipation Day protests have a new meaning in the age of COVID-19.
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U.S.
Rent strike wave makes its way to the D.C. Metro area
April 17, 2020Unite Here Local 23 and African Communities Together have organized to cancel rent until one month after the pandemic ends.
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U.S.
Claudia Jones School inaugural event in D.C. features Bill Fletcher, Jr.
March 12, 2020Fletcher’s talk, the highlight of the evening, provided an historical analysis of the role played by Black workers in the U.S. labor movement.
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U.S.
Topic at coming West Coast gathering: Imagining a world without police
November 4, 2019Alex S. Vitale, sociology professor at Brooklyn College, will be featured here on Saturday, Nov. 16, from 5-7 p.m., in The End of Policing, an evening of conversation with local activists on abolition of policing.
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