Thursday, September 22, 2011

Rest in Peace, Troy Anthony Davis

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The United States has shamed itself once again. I am sad beyond words. My heart goes out to his family and to all who suffer in the belly ...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Will Georgia Lynch Another Innocent Black Man Today?

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The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has ruled that Troy Davis will die at 7:00 p.m. tonight. Davis was convicted of the shooting dea...
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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Same Song, 4th Verse: Don't Kill Troy Davis

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Three years ago -- almost to the day -- I first heard and blogged about Troy Davis . And here he is, having been on death row for ninetee...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Toshi Reagon: The Battle of the Broken Word

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When are we going to stop buying what we're told as the truth? I'm just sayin'.
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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Brotha Wolf: The Deepest Pain

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Sometimes, when a Person of Color says or writes something I could never have adequately expressed because it is communicating something ex...
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Monday, September 05, 2011

How "The Help" Can Help

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In the past few weeks, I had read a number of reviews of " The Help " (one of the hot movies of the summer), but nearly all of th...
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Saturday, September 03, 2011

The Not-Just Not-Legal System

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I just finished watching "The Trials of Darryl Hunt" and I'm ready to stick my head out the window and scream. Darryl Hunt...
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Friday, September 02, 2011

That Mean Old Yesterday

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Last year, I read a book by Stacey Patton entitled That Mean Old Yesterday . It affected me greatly. As a person who studies race rel...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

Locked Into The Locked Up

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I remember the first time the subject of prisons and prisoners was presented to me. It was 1971. I was in San Francisco, working on an un...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Choices

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Yesterday, I got my student evaluations from my spring courses. I was glad to know I'm "cooler than John Travolta" (whatever...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Um...hello?

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I had to go through four passwords to figure out how to break into my own Blogger account. I guess that says it all, huh? I've been sc...
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Friday, June 24, 2011

The Tedeschi Trucks Band: Revelator

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As most of you are aware, I've been recuperating from surgery the past ten days or so and my body is confused. Sometimes, I can't k...
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Monday, June 20, 2011

The Angola 3 Struggle Builds

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Eight days ago, facing surgery, I decided to spend the weekend visiting Albert "Shaka Cinque" Woodfox, one of the Angola 3 . Of...
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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Another Big Man Dies

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Clarence Clemons , 69, who played saxophone with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for nearly forty years, died last night after ha...
Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Deborah Luster - One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana

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I'm a photo freak. A black and white enthusiast. I have stacks and shelves of books that feature photos. The topics vary. The first o...
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Thursday, June 02, 2011

Angola (the Prison, not the Country)

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It appears that I'm gearing up to do some more posts on the criminal justice system here in Louisiana and some of the cases that highli...
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Sunday, May 01, 2011

Let Freedom Ring!

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The main problem with waiting so long between what I call "real" blog posts is that they don't stop writing themselves in m...
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Toshi Reagon: I Will Stand Next To You

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It's my birthday. I am now officially really old. My birthday message to each and all of you: I love you and I will stand next to ...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

If Information is the Engine, Unity is the Fuel

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Activists protest in Atlanta after police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston, November 2006. (W.A. Bridges Jr./Atlanta Journal-Constitut...
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Friday, April 08, 2011

When Old School Becomes Old Hat

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I'm old school. In fact, I'm darn near old as the hills. Next Thursday, I'm going to hit one of those landmark birthdays that i...
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