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“Oscar Grant, 17 Years Later: Police Violence, Accountability, and the Unfinished Struggle”
Guest: Cat Brooks, Director of the Anti-Police Terror Project
Oscar Grant would have been 40 years old on February 27 of this year. His murder on January 2, 2009, became a catalyst for a generation of organizers, journalists, artists, and community members, igniting national conversations about police violence and accountability years before hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter entered the mainstream. Seventeen years later, we reflect on what has changed and what has remained stubbornly the same when it comes to policing, justice, and state violence in the United States.
In this conversation, Thandisizwe speaks with Cat Brooks, a community organizer and the founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) to examine the legacy of Oscar Grant’s killing and the ongoing struggle for justice.
Audio from Hard Knock Radio broadcast on January 6, 2026. Thandisizwe Chimurenga sitting in for Davey D. Produced by Anita Johnson
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Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist and independent grassroots journalist based in South Central Los Angeles, CA.
She is the creator, host and producer of “Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots,” a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media.
A co-founder of Black August Los Angeles and a member of the editorial committee of the ReBuild Collective, Chimurenga is also the author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant; Reparations ... Not Yet: Reparations and Why We Must Wait; Some Of Us Are Brave: Interviews and Conversations with Sistas on Life, Art and Struggle (Volumes 1 and 2), and the co-author of What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman with Deborah Jones.
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