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Donna Murch

  • Author and Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
Philadelphia
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History Prof at Rutgers University, New Brunswick Chapter President of Rutgers AAUP AFT and author of Living for the City and Assata Taught Me.

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Donna Murch is associate professor of history at Rutgers University. She is currently completing a new trade press book entitled Crack in Los Angeles: Policing the Crisis and the War on Drugs. In October 2010, Murch published the award-winning monograph Living for the City: Migration, Education and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California with the University of North Carolina Press, which won the Phillis Wheatley prize in December 2011. She has written for the Sunday Washingto…

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Paying for Punishment

Paying for Punishment

Drawing on the historical analogy to debt peonage and convict leasing following the Civil War, Donna Murch ar…

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Cam Newton and the Burden of History

Cam Newton and the Burden of History

While the mainstream media spends much of their time pondering Carolina Panthers quarterback Cameron Newton's…

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The Clintons' War on Drugs: When Black Lives Didn't Matter

The Clintons' War on Drugs: When Black Lives Didn't Matter

A true paradox lies at the heart of the Clinton legacy. Both Hillary and Bill continue to enjoy enormous popu…

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Five myths about Martin Luther King

Five myths about Martin Luther King

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is a historical figure every school child knows, one of the few from American…

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Who's to Blame for Mass Incarceration?

Who's to Blame for Mass Incarceration?

In a biting review of a recent book on the war on drugs in 1960 and 1970s New York, Murch challenges the asse…

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Black Agenda Report

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By Big Sis, Raymond Turner, Ann Garrison, Donna Murch
| Black Agenda Report Verified
Roughly a third of the people who were arrested by LAPD in the city of Los Angeles for cannabis-related offenses since 2020 were arrested in Westchester. Nearly all of those arrests happened at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Originally published in L.A. Taco. There’s one neighborhood in Los Angeles where you’re more likely to be arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for possession of cannabis than anywhere else in the city: Westchester.
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‘The Thing That’s Made the Union Strong Is to Privilege the Lowest Paid’

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By Donna Murch, Janine Jackson
| ZNetwork
Janine Jackson: Thousands of teachers—full-time, tenured, part-time, adjunct—grad students, counselors and others at New Jersey’s Rutgers University went on strike this month, an unprecedented labor action at the 257-year-old institution. Workers standing up anywhere can have rippling effects, but somehow when it is educators at a public university, there seems to be an added opportunity to find some lessons in the fight.
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Belabored: How to Bargain for Power, with Jane McAlevey

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By Jane McAlevey, Donna Murch, Katrina Kozarek
| ZNetwork
The wave of unionization continues apace across the United States and elsewhere in the world, but there’s often much less attention paid to the part of the process that comes after the winning of a union election: the bargaining of a contract. It can seem like the hard part is over when the votes are counted, but our guest this week reminds us that the hard part is just beginning.
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