The Warren Center has added its name to the following statements:
- Value of History: History Relevance: https://www.historyrelevance.com/endorsers
- About racist police violence: Harvard research centers: https://fxb.harvard.edu/2020/05/29/carrcenterfxbcenterstatement/
- About racist police violence: American Historical Association: https://www.historians.org/news-and-advocacy/aha-issues-statement-on-the-history-of-racist-violence-in-the-united-states-(june-2020)
Felber, Garrett: The Struggle to Abolish the Police Is Not New; http://bostonreview.net/race/garrett-felber-struggle-abolish-police-not-new
Felber, Garrett: Police Reform Hasn’t Stopped the Killings Before in Los Angeles. It Won’t Now Either; https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/20063-police-reform-hasn-t-stopped-the-killings-before-in-los-angeles-it-won-t-now-either
Losier, Toussaint: The Movement Against “Modern Day Slavery”; https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/09/prison-strike-slavery-labor-jls-abolition (note: not a super relevant piece concerning current moment but offers power insights to the development of incarceration)
Murch, Donna: Begging’ to be heard: Young protesters implore police to acknowledge them and their cause; https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/were-begging-for-us-to-be-heard-young-protesters-implore-police-to-acknowledge-them-and-their-cause/2020/06/04/19557452-a507-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html
Reverby, Susan: Prisons and public health: Gov. Cuomo must let out thousands or many will die; https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-prisons-and-public-health-20200327-fvrf4uxrr5bsze5xbjegfbhdmi-story.html (note: this piece is more related to the pandemic and covid than the uprisings but it provides another layer to demonstrate the widespread impact of failed policies in re: to the carceral state and policing)
Schrader, Stuart: Police Departments Are Parasites on the Public Purse; https://jacobinmag.com/2020/06/police-spending-austerity-defund-pandemic
Schrader, Stuart: How Empire is an Accomplice to the Murder of George Floyd, with Stuart Schrader; https://www.albawaba.com/news/how-empire-accomplice-murder-george-floyd-stuart-schrader-1365281
Thompson, Heather Ann & Matthews, Dylan: How today’s protests compare to 1968, explained by a historian; https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/6/2/21277253/george-floyd-protest-1960s-civil-rights (note: great piece of public-facing scholarship)