Before “defund the police” became a rallying cry at gatherings, marches, and protests for social justice in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, it was an idea unformed but incubated within something known as abolition democracy. The term “abolition democracy” was first coined by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1935 and resurfaced by the work of Angela Davis, most prominently in her book
How Media Transformed “Defund the Police”
How Media Transformed “Defund the Police”
How Media Transformed “Defund the Police”
Before “defund the police” became a rallying cry at gatherings, marches, and protests for social justice in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, it was an idea unformed but incubated within something known as abolition democracy. The term “abolition democracy” was first coined by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1935 and resurfaced by the work of Angela Davis, most prominently in her book