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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Head Roc · “Police Origins” w/ “Tarzan” from Head-Roc’s “NEGROPHOBIA!” LP (2005) It was an honor to have been part of this classic track from Head-Roc.
Read moreAn iMWiL! EXCLUSIVE: Book Excerpt: POLICE FORCED: The Case of Earl Faison, By Lawrence Hamm (with Annette M. Alston)
Thursday night, the People’s Organization for Progress, a New Jersey progressive activist group, will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the police killing of a Black man named Earl Faison. He was killed on April 11, 1999 by a revenge-hungry, white-majority police force in Orange, New Jersey, because the police were angry by the killing of…
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