Freedom Inc. – Race, Politics, Justice

Vision for Black Lives

August 5, 2016 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

EDITED June 2020 to update links in the M4BL web site. Under the name Movement for Black Lives , a coalition of contemporary Black Power organizations (including Madison’s Freedom, Inc.) have worked for a year to develop a comprehensive vision and agenda for social change. This is an exciting moment

Community Control Over Police

June 21, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice

M Adams and Max Rameau have a forthcoming article titled “Black Community Control Over Police in the Wisconsin Law Review that they were kind enough to let me see in advance of publication. (UPDATE: Publication available here.) The key argument of the article is that traditional ways of thinking about