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May 29, 2020

A Modern-Day Lynching

By DP

Now comes distinguished civil rights attorney and founder of the Racial Justice Network, Nekima Levy Armstrong, in response to the police killing of George Lloyd, a response that cuts to the heart of the matter with just a few sentences of searing truth set against the brutal exercise of police power:

In the midst of a pandemic caused by a pathogen that has a particularly nasty impact on human lungs and on communities of color, we invite careful consideration of the following transcript:

Finally, outraged by this repugnant and wanton act of murder, and by all the implications and histories tangled within, we relay a statement released by Frank Chapman, Executive Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression:

WHITE STRIPE FOR A MODERN-DAY LYNCHING

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July 14, 2017

Family Pictures

By DP

Now comes a montage of text and images from a project by artist Steve Locke, first exhibited in 2016 at the Gallery Kayafas in Boston: “the Family Pictures we have long pretended did not exist.”

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The exhibition included a Reading Room that included the following texts:

Going to Meet the Man (stories) by James Baldwin
Without Sanctuary Lynching Photography in America by James Allen, essays by Hilton Als, John Lewis, Leon F. Litwack, and James Allen
Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror by Equal Justice Initiative
Black Misery by Langston Hughes
The Inaugural Address 2009 by Barack Obama
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
Blacks by Gwendolyn Brooks
Sambo: The Rise and Demise of an American Jester by Joseph Boskin
Riot and Remembrance: America’s Worst Race Riot and Its Legacy by James S. Hirsch
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Violence: Six Sideways Reflections by Slavoj Žižek
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
Free at Last a History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle by Sara Bullard
On Lynchings by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Other Works by Frederick Douglas

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June 30, 2017

A Strange and Bitter Crop

By DP

Now comes Bryan Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Atlanta. First published in the New York Review of Books, his essay provides a concise summary of recent research into the history of lynching in America, in turn providing essential background for the ongoing murder of African-American men. Excerpts below, with images from Ken Gonzales-Day’s Erased Lynchings series.