Livestream: American Policing of Black Bodies With Jelani Cobb

By Jamilah King Sep 09, 2014

Ferguson is still on the minds and hearts of activists across the country. While that municipality’s city council meets for the first time to discuss the prospect of a police oversight board, black activists, writers and academics are still organizing around the national implications of Michael Brown’s murder.

This evening the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is hosting a livestreamed discussion on how American policing impacts black bodies. Contributing to the discussion are Khalil G. Muhammad (director of the Schomburg Center); Jelani Cobb (historian and journalist); Claudia De La Cruz (founder of Da Urban Butterflies); Darnell L. Moore (activist and co-organizer of Black Lives Matter); and moderator Joel Diaz (education associate at the Schomburg). There will also be a special reading by writer Akeema Zane.

The discussion starts on Tuesday, September 9 at 6:30pm EST. You can watch above. 

(h/t New York Public Library)