Richard E. Rubenstein Fifty years ago this year, I published my first book, entitled Rebels in Eden – an exploration of mass political violence in America focusing on the uprisings … Read More
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”The Life of Reason~ George Santayana (1905) Once again, Indianapolis and its police department have come to a fork in … Read More
It is a term we have heard a lot since the killing of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers last month. But what does the term actually mean in … Read More
Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Louisville, Georgia…. In every state in the United States and certainly in every major urban center within the nation; police brutality against black people has been … Read More
Over fifty years ago in Chicago, I founded the Afro-American Patrolman’s League. Black policemen were routinely ridiculed and called Uncle Toms, and they were primarily thought to be the Praetorian … Read More
I’m really saddened by a recent selfie video I saw on Facebook of a young man fleeing from Indianapolis police that ended up being the last video he will ever … Read More