We Can’t Breathe: On the Lynching of George Floyd (2020)

Art and Essay by Kevin Rashid Johnson On May 24, 2020, a crowd of onlookers witnessed the slow death by asphyxiation of a handcuffed Black man in Minneapolis. This was a public lynching. Only, unlike in times past, this crowd didn’t cheer but instead pleaded over and over for the cop who murdered George Floyd,…

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Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Redux

As he completes his magnum opus trilogy on the American empire, Abu-Jamal revisits two of his books Commentary by Todd Steven Burroughs On this Wednesday night commemorating the 50th anniversary of Panther blood spilled, Mumia Abu-Jamal awaits the spring publication of the third and final volume of Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide, Manifest Destiny. Meanwhile, he…

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