Let Us Explain: Sportswashing
Sportswashing: the use of an athletic event by an individual or a government, a corporation, or another group to promote or burnish the individual’s or group’s reputation, especially amid controversy or scandal.
Deadly adulterants have proliferated as drug-war policing escalates in Baltimore
The fact that law enforcement has essentially been given carte blanche to continue its assault on drug users in the name of public safety is not only nonsensical but incredibly dangerous.
To Whom This May Concern: Jill Scott's Sonic Geography of Black Life
Everywhere we have ever made music, which is to say everywhere we have ever hoped to survive, lives inside this record. Read more via Scalawag: To Whom This May Concern: Jill Scott's Sonic Geography of Black Life.
"We Are Striking a Blow at the State:" The Alabama Prisoners Work Strike
In order to continue to exploit Black prisoner labor and profit from it, Thomas E. Kilby, the governor of Alabama, ordered the construction of the Kilby prison and even named it after himself.