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Black Ops: COINTELPRO & The U.S. Government’s Ongoing Demonization of Black Activism
News Beat
English - October 18, 2018 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsPolitics News News Commentary civil culture hiphop journalism justice liberty media music news politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The U.S. government has a long and sordid history of surveilling, infiltrating, and disrupting peaceful political and social movements it deems threatening, or adverse to the status quo. Perhaps most infamous was a secret FBI-led program codenamed COINTELPRO (‘Counter Intelligence Program’), initiated in the ‘50s against such civil and human rights icons as Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, and many others. While purportedly shut down in 1971, its sinister tactics and spirit are very much alive today, deployed against modern-day activists and groups, including Black Lives Matter, environmentalists, Muslims, and indigenous rights groups. Recently, African Americans seeking social equality have been dubbed “Black Identity Extremists.”
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