Black Rebellion: Mass Violence And The Civil Rghts Movement
Elizabeth Hinton's book America On Fire explores how aggressive policing sparked thousands of incidents of mass violence in Black communities across the United States beginning in the 1960s. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben talks to the author about how the government's typical response to these "rebellions" \u2014 more policing \u2014 is both escalatory and inadequate.
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