by Jesse Hagopian | Jan 17, 2026 | Coretta Scott King, history, Interview, Liberals, Martin Luther King Jr., Police Brutality, Racism, Segregation, the South, Vietnam War
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids schools, states ban honest teaching about race and gender, and public officials invoke Martin Luther King Jr. to call for restraint and “civility,” King’s legacy is being aggressively stripped of its political substance. Much of the scholarship and public memory of King has long privileged his work in the South, reinforcing the idea that…
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by Nicole Foy | Jan 13, 2026 | Border Patrol, CBP, choke hold, DHS, ICE, mass deportations, News, Police Brutality, Renee Good
Immigration agents have put civilians’ lives at risk using more than their guns. An agent in Houston put a teenage citizen into a chokehold, wrapping his arm around the boy’s neck, choking him so hard that his neck had red welts hours later. A black-masked agent in Los Angeles pressed his knee into a woman’s neck while she was handcuffed; she then appeared to pass out.
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