American Police Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/american-police/ Arts and African History Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:10:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Black Lives Matter: ‘Get Your Knee off My Neck’, ‘I Can’t breathe’ https://consciousness.co.za/black-lives-matter-get-your-knee-off-my-neck-i-cant-breathe/ https://consciousness.co.za/black-lives-matter-get-your-knee-off-my-neck-i-cant-breathe/#respond Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:07:06 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=13899 ‘I was born to work up to my grave, but I was not born to be a slave’ – Maya Angelou (2014) The United States (US) has a peculiar history of racialised police brutality. This phenomena points to a number of issues in American society and some with a long tradition that dates back to [...]

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