How Police Unions Protect Their Own and Chuck Ross: Mavericks Money and Men: The AFL, Black Players and the Evolution of Modern Football

All the attention to police violence lately has prompted questions about the role of police unions and benevolent associations in a code of silence that blocks accountability. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll ask Kristian Williams, author of Our Enemies in Blue; Police and Power in America, whether police should have unions. Then, we interview Charles Ross, author of Mavericks, Money, and Men. It’s a history of the other AFL – the American Football League – whose greater willingness to integrate African Americans paid off in a Kansas City Superbowl victory in 1969. Thursday at 6pm, rebroadcast Friday at 5am.


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