Chenjerai Kumanyika

4 weeks ago | inthesetimes.com | Naomi Klein |Astra Taylor |Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor |Chenjerai Kumanyika

About a month after Donald Trump was inaugurated to a second term, and as it became overwhelmingly clear that Elon Musk’s role alongside him is to gut the administrative state and pave the way for widespread privatization, Haymarket Books held ​“An Emergency Town Hall” to help situate this ​“Corporate Coup in Global Context.” The roundtable discussion included bestselling journalist and author Naomi Klein, who is known for many books, including The Shock Doctrine, No Logo and Doppleganger;...

Jan 8, 2025 | npr.org | Gene Demby |Chenjerai Kumanyika |Jess Kung |Courtney Stein |Xavier Lopez |Xavier Lopez | +4 more

"The police are our friends"? Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1223466588/1264425858" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> How should Black parents talk to their kids about the police? Gene gets into it with his friend Chenjerai Kumanyika, host of Empire City, a podcast about the history of the NYPD.

Apr 4, 2023 | publicbooks.org | Chenjerai Kumanyika

I’ve been incarcerated (briefly) twice in my life, and both times my incarceration was linked to a car. I’m embarrassed to admit that I never made the connection until I read Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt and Carcerality by Julie Livingston and Andrew Ross. The many threads that run between cars, surveillance, and policing that this book calls our attention to feel even more urgent in the wake of Tyre Nichols’ fatal beating at the hands of six Memphis police.