It’s that time of the week, and as always the case, we have a great Daily Kos “The Brief” show on tap. This is the one-year anniversary of the George Floyd murder (and only one year, which seems unbelievable). That murder shook up the world, leading to protests around our country, and as far away as London, Paris, Syria, and Brazil. Yet today’s guest, Yale historian Dr. Elizabeth Hinton, writes in her new book, America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s, that this is nothing new—that the Black rebellion against militarized police is decades old.

rebellion must be understood on its own terms, as a type of political action that has

been integral to the history of the freedom movement in America … what were long assumed to be urban, Black “riots” were, in fact, rebellions—political  acts  carried  out  in response to an unjust and repressive society. This redefinition leads, necessarily, to an  examination  of  the  failures  of  the  Civil  Rights  era,  whose  unfulfilled  promises resulted in continued poverty and skyrocketing imprisonment.”

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