Joshua Clark Davis
@joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social
Author POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT (Oct. 2025) on civil rights activists vs. state violence, surveillance, undercover officer infiltration | Historian, University of Baltimore | Bylines at The Nation, Jacobin, Slate
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I'll be in Brooklyn to discuss POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT with @chenjerai.bsky.social next Thursday, 11/06 at the Word is Change!
October 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I'll be in Brooklyn to discuss POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT with @chenjerai.bsky.social next Thursday, 11/06 at the Word is Change!
Judges in every courthouse in the country should be doing this.
October 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Judges in every courthouse in the country should be doing this.
Paul Robeson’s house museum has reopened in Philadelphia after 8 months of renovations and nearly 50 years since his death.
October 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Paul Robeson’s house museum has reopened in Philadelphia after 8 months of renovations and nearly 50 years since his death.
We should be putting up signs to mark these acts of state violence in every community in the country.
October 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
We should be putting up signs to mark these acts of state violence in every community in the country.
Have a piece today in TEEN VOGUE from my new book POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT detailing how the NYPD, LAPD, cops in Chicago and Memphis surveilled the civil rights movement—and then destroyed millions of surveillance files in the ‘70s, including ones that may have shed like on MLK’s assassination.
October 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Have a piece today in TEEN VOGUE from my new book POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT detailing how the NYPD, LAPD, cops in Chicago and Memphis surveilled the civil rights movement—and then destroyed millions of surveillance files in the ‘70s, including ones that may have shed like on MLK’s assassination.
POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT retells the '60s civil rights struggle through its overlooked work against police violence and the surveillance, infiltration, and retaliatory prosecutions they faced from police in return. It's a pre-history of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements.
September 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT retells the '60s civil rights struggle through its overlooked work against police violence and the surveillance, infiltration, and retaliatory prosecutions they faced from police in return. It's a pre-history of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements.
11/06, Brooklyn: The Word is Change w/ Chenjerai Kumanyika
12/02, Baltimore: Enoch Pratt Central Library w/ Jill Carter
12/04, Atlanta: A Cappella Books @ Auburn Ave Research Center w/ Josie Duffey Rice
12/02, Baltimore: Enoch Pratt Central Library w/ Jill Carter
12/04, Atlanta: A Cappella Books @ Auburn Ave Research Center w/ Josie Duffey Rice
September 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
11/06, Brooklyn: The Word is Change w/ Chenjerai Kumanyika
12/02, Baltimore: Enoch Pratt Central Library w/ Jill Carter
12/04, Atlanta: A Cappella Books @ Auburn Ave Research Center w/ Josie Duffey Rice
12/02, Baltimore: Enoch Pratt Central Library w/ Jill Carter
12/04, Atlanta: A Cappella Books @ Auburn Ave Research Center w/ Josie Duffey Rice
My new book, POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT, comes out 10/7 and I'm going on a book tour in SF, LA, Baltimore, DC, NYC, and ATL!
10/07, SF: City Lights w/ Daphne Muse
10/09, LA: Skylight w/ Elizabeth Hinton
10/16, Baltimore: Red Emma's w/Judy Richardson
10/18, DC: Politics & Prose w/Judy Richardson
10/07, SF: City Lights w/ Daphne Muse
10/09, LA: Skylight w/ Elizabeth Hinton
10/16, Baltimore: Red Emma's w/Judy Richardson
10/18, DC: Politics & Prose w/Judy Richardson
September 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
My new book, POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT, comes out 10/7 and I'm going on a book tour in SF, LA, Baltimore, DC, NYC, and ATL!
10/07, SF: City Lights w/ Daphne Muse
10/09, LA: Skylight w/ Elizabeth Hinton
10/16, Baltimore: Red Emma's w/Judy Richardson
10/18, DC: Politics & Prose w/Judy Richardson
10/07, SF: City Lights w/ Daphne Muse
10/09, LA: Skylight w/ Elizabeth Hinton
10/16, Baltimore: Red Emma's w/Judy Richardson
10/18, DC: Politics & Prose w/Judy Richardson
Jeff Bezos: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
Today's Washington Post opinion page:
Today's Washington Post opinion page:
August 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Jeff Bezos: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
Today's Washington Post opinion page:
Today's Washington Post opinion page:
AI thinks the postwar presidents mated with each other to birth future presidents.
August 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
AI thinks the postwar presidents mated with each other to birth future presidents.
Fraternal Order of Police president Patrick Yoes to Trump:
“You made a promise that you were going to address overtime — a tax on overtime…The one big new bill is certainly making good on that promise.”
“You made a promise that you were going to address overtime — a tax on overtime…The one big new bill is certainly making good on that promise.”
July 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Fraternal Order of Police president Patrick Yoes to Trump:
“You made a promise that you were going to address overtime — a tax on overtime…The one big new bill is certainly making good on that promise.”
“You made a promise that you were going to address overtime — a tax on overtime…The one big new bill is certainly making good on that promise.”
Zohran Mamdani recalling how his father was brutalized and arrested by Montgomery police at a SNCC protest against segregationists in 1965.
June 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Zohran Mamdani recalling how his father was brutalized and arrested by Montgomery police at a SNCC protest against segregationists in 1965.
Jeff Bezos: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
Today's Washington Post opinion page:
Today's Washington Post opinion page:
June 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Jeff Bezos: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
Today's Washington Post opinion page:
Today's Washington Post opinion page:
This Minnesota assassin/fake cop was approached by a real police officer outside a lawmaker’s home, but the officer didn’t question him or ask for any ID, just let him go about his way.
June 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This Minnesota assassin/fake cop was approached by a real police officer outside a lawmaker’s home, but the officer didn’t question him or ask for any ID, just let him go about his way.
ICE agents were so scared fleeing from an angry crowd outside a raid on a Long Island school that they wrecked their car and had to run from the scene. theintercept.com/2025/06/13/i...
June 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
ICE agents were so scared fleeing from an angry crowd outside a raid on a Long Island school that they wrecked their car and had to run from the scene. theintercept.com/2025/06/13/i...
Restaurant employees in Kennett, Missouri, after seeing a co-worker during a video meeting from where she was held in immigration detention in May.
June 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Restaurant employees in Kennett, Missouri, after seeing a co-worker during a video meeting from where she was held in immigration detention in May.
DJT: I'm going to launch an unconstitutional, fascist military attack on peaceful civilian protesters so I can escalate thousands of racist human rights violations.
NYT: This is going to hurt Democrats.
NYT: This is going to hurt Democrats.
June 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
DJT: I'm going to launch an unconstitutional, fascist military attack on peaceful civilian protesters so I can escalate thousands of racist human rights violations.
NYT: This is going to hurt Democrats.
NYT: This is going to hurt Democrats.
"March 10, 1965: A sit-in demonstrator is lifted by his arm and leg as he is removed from a Federal Building parking lot in Los Angeles. Arrests began after the demonstrators blocked the path of a U.S. mail truck. (Art Rogers / Los Angeles Times)"
June 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"March 10, 1965: A sit-in demonstrator is lifted by his arm and leg as he is removed from a Federal Building parking lot in Los Angeles. Arrests began after the demonstrators blocked the path of a U.S. mail truck. (Art Rogers / Los Angeles Times)"
"March 10, 1965: Deputy U.S. marshal, right, speaks to group of demonstrators who are lying across a parking lot entrance to L.A.’s Federal Building. (Ray Graham / Los Angeles Times)"
June 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"March 10, 1965: Deputy U.S. marshal, right, speaks to group of demonstrators who are lying across a parking lot entrance to L.A.’s Federal Building. (Ray Graham / Los Angeles Times)"
"March 9, 1965: Sit-in protesters are removed from a hallway in the U.S. Attorney General’s office in L.A.’s Federal Building. (Bruce Cox / Los Angeles Times)"
June 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"March 9, 1965: Sit-in protesters are removed from a hallway in the U.S. Attorney General’s office in L.A.’s Federal Building. (Bruce Cox / Los Angeles Times)"
"March 10, 1965: As a bus loaded with arrested women prepares to leave the Federal Building in Los Angeles, male demonstrators try to block its departure. The man at left is dragged away from the bus. Marshals then removed the other man from under the bus. (Steve Fontanini / Los Angeles Times)"
June 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"March 10, 1965: As a bus loaded with arrested women prepares to leave the Federal Building in Los Angeles, male demonstrators try to block its departure. The man at left is dragged away from the bus. Marshals then removed the other man from under the bus. (Steve Fontanini / Los Angeles Times)"
Original L.A. Times photo caption: "March 10, 1965: U.S. deputy marshals forcibly remove a demonstrator from an entrance to the Federal Building parking lot in L.A. (Larry Sharkey / Los Angeles Times)"
June 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Original L.A. Times photo caption: "March 10, 1965: U.S. deputy marshals forcibly remove a demonstrator from an entrance to the Federal Building parking lot in L.A. (Larry Sharkey / Los Angeles Times)"
On March 10, 1965, nearly 100 protesters were arrested and assaulted by U.S. Marshals outside the Los Angeles Federal Building as they demanded federal officials crack down on law enforcement who had brutalized civil rights protesters in Selma, Alabama.
June 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
On March 10, 1965, nearly 100 protesters were arrested and assaulted by U.S. Marshals outside the Los Angeles Federal Building as they demanded federal officials crack down on law enforcement who had brutalized civil rights protesters in Selma, Alabama.
"This is the life story of a young man trained to be a leader in the Communist Party who today is giving his full time as a Christian Crusader, warning the people against the satanic Christ-hating program of world Communism."
May 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"This is the life story of a young man trained to be a leader in the Communist Party who today is giving his full time as a Christian Crusader, warning the people against the satanic Christ-hating program of world Communism."
Five years ago on May 27, Memphis and LA were among the first cities outside Minneapolis to record protests against the police murder of George Floyd two days earlier.
In the nine days that followed, law enforcement made more than 13,000 arrests of protesters.
In the nine days that followed, law enforcement made more than 13,000 arrests of protesters.
May 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Five years ago on May 27, Memphis and LA were among the first cities outside Minneapolis to record protests against the police murder of George Floyd two days earlier.
In the nine days that followed, law enforcement made more than 13,000 arrests of protesters.
In the nine days that followed, law enforcement made more than 13,000 arrests of protesters.