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When the Feds Are Still Watching. Former Black Panthers fear the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after COINTELPRO. In at least one case, they were right.
Former Black Panthers fear the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after COINTELPRO. In at least one case, they were right.
Ad Policy On a warm winter afternoon, Malik Rahim hunched in his darkened living room in New Orleans, the walls plastered with decades of Black radical flyers and photographs, paging through a thin sheath of public records. When Silvers and her husband, an interracial couple, found that their tire had been slashed in a Memphis parking lot, they could attribute it to coordinated state efforts to intimidate them—or to regular Klan members, all of it part and parcel of the legacy of racial terror in the US South. With a hostile incoming administration, a massive infrastructure of courts and judges waiting to turn “freedom of speech” into a nostalgic memory, and legacy newsrooms rapidly abandoning their responsibility to produce accurate, fact-based reporting, independent media has its work cut out for itself.
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