The reporters I roll with may not dress like the coifs on TV, or have as many cool lanyards in their credential collection as those who ride campaign buses, but I assure you we are much more serious than most of them.
police brutality
THE CITIZENS AGENDA: WHAT DO YOU WANT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO TALK ABOUT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE?
Below you will find our developing reportorial agenda—the BINJ Citizens Agenda—curated using input from the public as well as media makers who are coming to report on the ground in New Hampshire
GRANITE GRIND: SUPERFICIAL RIFTS ASIDE, WARREN AND SANDERS HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT IDEAS & TACTICS
Less than a year out from the 2020 elections, and weeks away from the dawn of the Democratic Party primaries, the race for the presidential nomination has been whittled down to four “top tier” candidates and a swath of longshots desperate to make late breakthroughs.
OPEN WOUNDS: ANOTHER BLACK HARVARD MAN ARRESTED
As can be seen in a video that one witness submitted to police, officers repeatedly punched Ohene in his torso. A subsequent CPD report depicts Ohene as being so wildly combative that three cops from Cambridge plus a transit officer were needed to restrain him and to place the perp in handcuffs in order to “avoid further injury to himself.”
FRONT AND CENTER: RACE PLAYS INTO THE BOSTON MAYORAL ELECTION IN MORE WAYS THAN YOU REALIZE
While both candidates have positioned themselves as the best choice for addressing racism in a city that is 53 percent people of color, their outlooks on related issues and strategies regarding how to fix things differ substantially.
THAT ‘FREE SPEECH’ THING
Photo by Kori Feener
Mayor Walsh and various police agencies were no friends of civil liberties at Boston’s monster protests against the ultra right
Despite the “mission accomplished” happy talk ...
GALLERY + INTERVIEW: MAJOR GROUP ART SHOW TAKES AIM AT POLICE VIOLENCE
It can be challenging to make art of any kind that asks people to engage with hard and heavy and ugly issues, but if you look for it there are artists everywhere taking it on.
BROKEN RECORDS: BEATING TRANSPARENCY
The MBTA doesn’t want you to know how much it spends concealing evidence of police brutality
SPIN MASTERS: JEFF ROSS ROAST COOKS THE FACTS
The overriding concern here is that the BPD once again proved itself masterful at misrepresenting facts, and of presenting officers in a positive media light.
SIX SHOT: ALL-STAR CREW WRITES NEW CHAPTER IN LONG HISTORY OF HEALING HUB THROUGH HIP-HOP
“Our movement is awareness. We’re talking for the people who you aren’t going to hear elsewhere."