Select Media

Print

• Cosmopolitan: How Women Want to Fix The Police Department (Sept 2020)

• Harpers Bazaar: 100 Days of Protest (Sept 2020)

Videos

• Cornell University: Getting Free: Race and Abolition

• Haymarket: Abolition Can’t Wait- A Teach In with 8 to Abolition

• Dream Defenders: Abolition in Our Lifetime with Angela Davis, Derecka Purnell, Cherell Brown, and K Agebebiyi

• Haymarket: Raising Antiracist Kids with Dr. Ibram Kendi and Derecka Purnell (Jun 2020)

• The Wing: Is Defunding the Police Possible? A Discussion with Josie Duffy Rice & Derecka Purnell (Jun 2020)

• Frank Barat: Andrea Ritchie & Derecka Purnell : "Policing as an institution is violent" (June 2020)

• For Harriet: So after we abolish prisons and policing...then what?: A Black Feminist Dialogue (Jun 2020)

• People’s Forum: Lessons for Rebellions (Jun 2020)

Podcasts

• Radical Imagination: Police Abolition Pt. 2 with Derecka Purnell

• Hear to Slay with Roxanne Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom: A Historic First. Now What? ft. Keeanga Yamattah Taylor and Derecka Purnell (Sept 2020)

• NPR: Defunding the Police- What Would it Mean for the US? (Jun 2020)

• Justice in America Podcast: 10 Questions with Derecka Purnell (Apr 2020)

• Justice in America Podcast: "School to Prison Pipeline” (Apr 2020)

• Justice in America Podcast: “Schools in Prison” (Apr 2020)

• The Center for Constitutional Rights: The Activist Files - Episode 23, Liberation is Not Linear (Feb 2020)

• Slate Podcast: The Trouble with the Warren-Sanders Beef (Jan 2020)

• Under the Arch Podcast: Policing and Abolition (July 2019)

Select Panels and Appearances

• An Intergenerational Conversation with Dr. Angela Davis at Riverside Church (Sep 2019)

• University of Pennsylvania: Policing in Everyday Lives (Feb 2019)

• Melissa Harris Perry Show: Harvard Students Call for Change to Shield (Nov. 2015)

• The Kansas City Star Feature: Civil Rights Act: 50 Years Later (June 2014)