MLK/FBI

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Sam Pollard’s masterful documentary MLK/FBI follows in the footsteps of Ava DuVernay’s 13th by forcing us to examine the ways in which law enforcement works against Black Americans: in her film’s case, the prison-industrial complex; in his, the darkest moment in the FBI’s history: their surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. As we are only now beginning to understand how the media has shaped the image of cops as good guys who only break the rules to protect you from the…