domestic surveillance

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• 3/21/2021
  

  Incognegro, Part II: How New York Law Enforcement Worked to Destroy Core

  by L.E.J. Rachell

  Ray Wood's memoir alleges that as a rookie NYPD detective he was coerced to act as an agent provocateur to convince members of New York's Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) chapters to commit crimes or other acts that would discredit and destroy the movement. The NYPD and FBI could clear the air by releasing their files on infiltration of Black-led organizations. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/13/2021
  

  The Unsettling Message of "Judas and the Black Messiah"

  by Elizabeth Hinton

  The film "brings the disparities engendered by a surveillance state into focus, leaving audiences to wonder what this country would look like if the war on white supremacy were fought with the same implacable intensity as the one against the Black Panther Party some 50 years ago."

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• SOURCE: Buzzfeed
  1/29/2021
  

  A New Photo Exhibit Looks At Decades Of FBI Surveillance On American Citizens

  Christopher Gregory-Rivera's new exhibit documents the FBI's surveillance, in concert with Puerto Rican authorities, of private citizens suspected of involvement in the island's independence movement.