Spies of Mississippi: New Film on the State-Sponsored Campaign to Defeat the Civil Rights Movement

http://www.democracynow.org - A new documentary reveals how the Mississippi state government spied on civil rights activists in the 1950s and 1960s. A little-known state agency called the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission hired spies to infiltrate the civil rights movement and squash attempts to desegregate the state and register African Americans to vote. 

This is just an excerpt. Click here to watch the full 20-minute segment: DN LINK HERE

Some of the spies were themselves African American. The Commission generated more than 160,000 pages of reports, many of which were shared with local police departments whose officers belonged to the Ku Klux Klan. The film, "Spies of Mississippi," also looks at how some of those reports contributed to the 1964 deaths of Freedom Summer activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, 50 years ago. For more, we speak with Jerry Mitchell, an investigative journalist for the Jackson Clarion-Ledger. He won the release of more than 2,400 pages of Commission records in 1989, and used those to reopen many cold cases from the civil rights era. His work helped lead to the 1994 conviction of the killer of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers, and paved the way for 23 more convictions. We are also joined by Dawn Porter, the award-winning producer and director of "Spies of Mississippi," which is now streaming online at PBS Independent Lens. 

DC teacher handcuffed in front of students

A field trip for some District of Columbia high schoolers went horribly wrong when police handcuffed and questioned their teacher in front of them. Reports had come in to DC Metro Transit Police of an assault, and the officers believed the students matched the suspects’ description. 

Dunbar High School teacher Brandi Byrd says she was detained for 20 minutes and repeatedly pushed against a wall, yet police never told her why they were detaining her. 

RT’s Meghan Lopez takes a closer look at the civics lesson these high schoolers will never forget. 

New Jersey Cops Beat-up, Arrest and Frame Black man ! ... Video Footage ...

For the 3rd time this month a black man is beat up and arrested on false charges by racist police.

Black man and woman ... it's time to separate from these European-Americans before we are all killed or caged !!!

NYPD Cops detain and Arrest Bronx man for Nothing !

A black man got off a bus on Pelham parkway in the Bronx and was immediately accosted by 2 NYPD cops that accused him of not paying his bus fare. When the man produced his I.D and bus ticket the officers refused to release him.

The man repeatedly asked the officers why he was being held after he had presented them with I.D and the ticket but the cops refused to let him go until the man got fed up and attempted to walk away at which point the cops got what they wanted ... an arrest towards their monthly quota for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

The cops that make up the NYPD are racist and see all black men as easy targets that they can use to meet their monthly arrest quotas ! The NYPD only hires black and Latino cops to give the illusion of diversity so no one will suspect rampant racism, racial profiling and corruption.

If black men don't come together and unite the minions of white supremacy will hunt us down until we are all dead or in jail !