Disopticon

Uncovering Chicago police secrets with the man fighting Homan Square.

Civil rights attorney Flint Taylor explains how the Chicago's Homan Square facility allows police to disappear, intimidate and torture detainees while a clueless local media nitpicks the the international newspaper that broke the story, and a cynical mayor uses evidence of police abuse to make the case for more police abuse.

Last week, Flint's law firm, the People's Law Office, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Chicago and six Chicago police officers.

Exploring the ties and tensions between Ferguson's Jewish and Palestinian activists.

Live from St. Louis, journalist Sarah Kendzior explores the complicated relationship between the Black Lives Matter movement and local Jewish and Palestinian activists, fighting for Black liberation while at times struggling to maintain solidarity and cooperation in a city the media has abandoned and white flight has stripped of resources.

Sarah wrote The Jewish and Palestinian Activists of the Ferguson Movement for Medium.