Chris Geraldi

1 month ago | blackagendareport.com | Ann Garrison |Noah Shachtman |Raymond Turner |Chris Geraldi

This piece was originally printed in BAR in 2014. If Fox News is the Republican ministry of TV propaganda, MSNBC is the mouthpiece of the White House and corporate Democrats. The last real journalist in an MSNBC host spot was Phil Donahue, fired for letting antiwar lefties on the air once in a while. MSNBC must have a lot of confidence that their new host, Joy-Ann Reid, will carry their water and leverage her black face to carry their message to us instead of the other way around.

Sep 23, 2024 | pressrepublican.com | Chris Geraldi

— This story first appeared in New York Focus, a non-profit news publication investigating New York state politics. Sign up for their stories at nysfocus.com/newsletter. Does anyone care how long people stay in prison? That’s what Carol Shapiro wants to know. In 2017, the longtime criminal justice reform advocate was appointed to New York state’s Board of Parole, which decides whether people who’ve served their minimum prison sentences should be released.

Sep 17, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | Jemima Pierre |Chris Geraldi |Jacqueline Luqman |Sharon Black

“The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity,every crack in the common front against fascism.”  —Henry A.

Jul 2, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | Chris Geraldi |Raymond Turner |Hannah Natanson |Emmanuel Felton

Police Commissioner Edward Caban has often relied on an obscure authority to intervene when officers are accused of serious wrongdoing, often handing out little to no punishment. Originally published in the New York Times. Brianna Villafane was in Lower Manhattan protesting police violence in the summer of 2020, when officers charged into the crowd. One of them gripped her hair and yanked her to the ground. “I felt someone on top of me and it was hard to breathe,” she said.

Apr 1, 2024 | niagara-gazette.com | Chris Geraldi

This story first appeared in New York Focus, a non-profit news publication investigating New York state politics. Sign up for their stories at nysfocus.com/newsletter. Citing a New York Focus report, state Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas introduced a bill last week that would effectively ban public agencies from referencing a largely debunked medical syndrome long used to justify deaths in police custody.