The FBI Won’t Hand Over Its Surveillance Records on ‘Black Identity Extremists,’ so the ACLU and CMJ are Suing
Mar 21, 2019
At a time when violence by white supremacists is on the rise, the FBI appears to be targeting Black people in a secret intelligence program concerning so-called “Black Identity Extremists”— an inflammatory term for a group that doesn’t even exist. The bureau’s practice echoes earlier, shameful government surveillance programs that sought to discredit civil rights and Black power activists who were...
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