Beats Quote by Langston Hughes

“In Harlem, Negro policemen are feared more than whites, for they have more to prove and fewer ways to prove it”

— James Baldwin

“CONFESSIONS OF A GANGSTER A former gang member talks about racial violence from way back in the eighties. “It started out innocently,” Jones, 39,…

— Colin Flaherty

The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the…

— Noam Chomsky

It's true, we grew up in a ghetto. To us it wasn't too bad, but the police brutality was like that. You see three…

— DJ Yella

For example, it was this pack of wolves that sparked off the Rodney King affair a few years ago in Los Angeles. Let us…

— Paul Virilio

Growing up, you always heard of cops beating people up behind buildings and letting them go. Now they just shoot them.

— DJ Yella

'Blacks were too scared to do anything, but they came out to greet James Meredith': That would have been the story in the evening…

— James Meredith

“It was only after Detroit that riots became known as primarily urban phenomena, ultimately centered on inner-city blacks venting their frustrations on the ghettos…

— Isabel Wilkerson

There is police brutality. People of color have been targeted by police.

— Colin Kaepernick

We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually…

— Courtney B. Vance

What 'Brooklyn's Finest' did was to educate me about the psychological challenges they face and how that part of their lives is often overlooked.…

— Wesley Snipes

You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all…

— David Maraniss