The Marshall Project: In 2022, I [Maurice Chammah, Staff Writer at The Marshall Project ] spent several weeks shadowing investigator Sara Baldwin as she tried to save a man from execution. Bernard Belcher had killed a young woman named Jennifer Embry; despite deep remorse for his actions, he couldn’t explain why he did it. Baldwin’s … Continue reading A Light For Life On Death Row? A Unique Story in Graphics
Friends, My treasured buddy and wise F/friend John Calvi is just leaving Vermont with husband Marshall, for winter quarters in the Great (& Warm) Southwest. Before leaving, he sent out an urgent letter. It was meant initially for LGBTQ folk, but has lots of implications for many more people who may be only weird or … Continue reading Guest Post & Warning: The Johnson Agenda Is In The House
[NOTE: Freedom schools were a key element of 1960s civil rights activism in the deep South. Their important legacy is no longer only history, but is now being revived and reinvented, starting in Florida, as resistance to resurgent racism in education. What a great idea.] Washington Post After Florida restricts Black history, churches step up … Continue reading Freedom Schools Are Back! (Starting In Florida)
From Reading Religion: The End of Public Execution Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South By: Michael Ayers Trotti 266 Pages — $32.95 Published By: University of North Carolina Press Michael Ayers Trotti’s The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South opens with a short transcription of a newspaper … Continue reading When Hanging Wasn’t Brutal Enough for Black Prisoners: Southern Whites Brought In “Old Sparky”
[NOTE: There’s unfortunately too much truth in this report to ignore. One implication is left unaddressed: it points to the increasing importance of independent publishing (typified but not limited to Amazon), OUTSIDE the increasingly hidebound and oppressive “legacy” publishing industry. PS. This report, alas, applies as well to much of Quaker publishing.] From The Bulwark.com … Continue reading Move Over, Ron de Book Banner —Leftie Censors Are Even Worse