The tainting of character, the undermining of basic trust, the disruption of democratic politics -- these are the great achievements of state surveillance.
Today, "stop snitching" campaigns have lead to a form of tribalism whereby African-American communities forfeit their right to police protection in favor of a tenacious defiance to authority.
The grief-stricken aides photographed by Withers on April 4, 1968, had no clue, but the man they invited in that night was an FBI informant -- evidenc...
A veteran freelancer for America's black press, Withers was known as "the original civil rights photographer," an insider who'd covered it all, from t...