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Heather Ann Thompson Head and Courtney Wise Head Shot

Making a Community Safer: Courtney Wise Randolph and Heather Ann Thompson

The origin of the police is slave patrols. Human beings held in chattel slavery could not escape. Police were used to break strikes and make sure that people could not organize to have decent working conditions. So, the origins of the police were about protecting racial boundaries and protecting property.

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The origin of the police is slave patrols. Human beings held in chattel slavery could not escape. Police were used to break strikes and make sure that people could not organize to have decent working conditions. So, the origins of the police were about protecting racial boundaries and protecting property.

A Short Statement from MQR on Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter. The staff of MQR has chosen to give $500 to the Detroit Justice Center & $500 to the Detroit and MI chapter of the National Lawyers Guild as an expression of support for people in our community struggling to combat police brutality against Black Americans. In the coming days, we will be

A Short Statement from MQR on Black Lives Matter Read More »

Black Lives Matter. The staff of MQR has chosen to give $500 to the Detroit Justice Center & $500 to the Detroit and MI chapter of the National Lawyers Guild as an expression of support for people in our community struggling to combat police brutality against Black Americans. In the coming days, we will be

Painting of animals dancing and emerging from a bowl next to old-looking portrait of seven people.

Island; I-land: Eye-Land: Caliban on Sugar Island

But golden eras—like edens—end. Even the magic of Prospero’s island, we assume, departs with him, for better or worse. For Sugar Island, much like Prospero’s, the beginning of the final days came with a shipwreck.

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But golden eras—like edens—end. Even the magic of Prospero’s island, we assume, departs with him, for better or worse. For Sugar Island, much like Prospero’s, the beginning of the final days came with a shipwreck.

francine j. harris head shot

what you’d find buried in the dirt under charles f. kettering sr. high school (detroit, michigan)

broken teeth. lost retainers. crumpled letters written to counselors

and discarded for illegible handwriting. phone lists of

abortion clinics. deflated valentine’s day balloons with

trampled white ribbon. sales ads on bassinette sets.

what you’d find buried in the dirt under charles f. kettering sr. high school (detroit, michigan) Read More »

broken teeth. lost retainers. crumpled letters written to counselors

and discarded for illegible handwriting. phone lists of

abortion clinics. deflated valentine’s day balloons with

trampled white ribbon. sales ads on bassinette sets.

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