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	Podcast:		KQED’s Forum
	Episode:		Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Reimagining the Police, in the Past and Future
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:51:43
	Publish Date:		2020-06-22 12:00:00
	Description:		“Defund the police” may be a new rallying cry, but according to Harvard historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad, black reformers, scholars and activists have been calling out systemic racism in law enforcement for at least 100 years. We’ll talk to Muhammad about historical attempts to root out the use of excessive force, racial profiling and other unconstitutional policing practices as well as the laws, policies and attitudes that have stood in the way of reform. We’ll also discuss whether we, as a nation, are ready to accept an alternate vision of policing that does not, as he writes in his book “The Condemnation of Blackness,” protect white lives at the expense of black ones.
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