Below is a partial list of suggested readings highlighting the extensive and pervasive control that the US government seeks to have over every aspect of our existence. We are living in a militarized state where the US government has been at war with
African and other non-white people since it’s inception.
Websites and online articles
“Fact Sheet – New Attorney General Guidelines” –
This article is from 2008 when under the Bush Administration the FBI were given the power to investigate anyone they chose without any factual predicate. https://www.aclu.org/other/fact-sheet-new-attorney-general-guidelines?redirect=national-security/fact-sheet-new-attorney-general-guidelines
“Tracking Activists: The FBI’s Surveillance of Black Women Activists Then and Now” https://www.oah.org/tah/issues/2020/history-for-black-lives/tracking-activists-the-fbis-surveillance-of-black-women-activists-then-and-now/
Before Book Banning Wave, The FBI Spied on People’s Library habits.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/01/23/library-awareness-program-fbi-surveillance/.
New terrorism guide shows FBI still classifying Black ‘extremists’ as domestic terrorism threat. https://news.yahoo.com/new-terrorism-guide-shows-fbi-still-classifying-black-extremists-as-domestic-terrorism-threat-190650561.html.
The Federal Government’s Secret War on Black Activists
https://prospect.org/justice/federal-government-s-secret-war-black-activists/.
“Invisible Men; A new book exposes the FBI’s obsession with black writers”
https://www.bookforum.com/print/2105/a-new-book-exposes-the-fbi-s-obsession-with-black-writers-14147
A short history of the U.S. war against Black musicians
https://mronline.org/2022/05/24/a-short-history-of-the-u-s-war-against-black-musicians/
The CIA Within Academe – Book documents how foreign and domestic intelligence agencies use — and perhaps exploit — higher education and academe for spy operations.
FBI Urges Universities To Monitor Some Chinese Students And Scholars In The U.S. https://www.npr.org/2019/06/28/728659124/fbi-urges-universities-to-monitor-some-chinese-students-and-scholars-in-the-u-s?utm_id=38187204.
The FBI Wants Schools to Spy on Their Students Thoughts https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/fbi-wants-schools-spy-their-students-thoughts.
The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1927/03/the-case-of-sacco-and-vanzetti/306625/.
How the US Spies on Medical NonProfits and Health Defenses Worldwide
How the Government Target Strange Fruit Singer Billie Holiday with Drug Arrests https://www.biography.com/musicians/billie-holiday-narcotics-us-government.
Targeting Arab/Muslim/South Asian Americans: Criminalization and Cultural Citizenship https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=socs_fac.
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Books and Films
AGENTS OF REPRESSION: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther party and the American Indian Movement by Ward Churchill
FB EYES – HOW J. EDGAR HOOVER’S GHOST WRITERS FRAMED AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE, by William J. Maxwell
THE FBI WAR ON TUPAC SHAKUR – State Repression of Civil Rights Leaders by John Potash
DISRUPT, DISCREDIT, AND DIVIDE – How The New FBI Damages Democracy, by Mike German
POISONER IN CHIEF: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, by Stephen Kinzer
Spate of awards-season films track FBI tactics against Black activists