President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and immigration enforcement agents to the nation’s capital has sparked a mass movement. In Chicago, a city on which Trump has essentially declared war , the threat of deployment has generated a flurry of organizing, including a mass protest on September 6. In both D.C. and Chicago, Black activists who have a long history of opposing policing are playing leading roles in the resistance .

NeeNee Taylor is co-founder and executive director of Harriet’s Wildest Dreams , a Black-led abolitionist community defense hub, and co-founder and organizing director of the Free DC Project , an effort that launched in January 2025. A native of D.C., Taylor has been on the front lines of the resistance to federal police and the Nati

See Full Page