Tagged: police brutality

Ten poems from Surveillance, the powerful new collection from Ashaki M. Jackson, which... Read more →

When I say hold us in prayer I mean touch Black bodies as if they are children... Read more →

The night is as black as skin It falls slowly publicly like an { Eric } Night... Read more →

1. After the body falls back riddled with bullets do not expect it to respond to... Read more →

Sometimes there is silence after a video is released   You want to describe it as... Read more →

We say King Watcher please guide us It opens its mouth and makes no sound   Moves its... Read more →

Accountability (see m) 1. a measure of responsibility, The officer is accountable to the... Read more →

If you watch enough footage   you grow comfortable with a narrative: the Black body... Read more →

“We didn’t know anything about a chokehold or hands to the neck until the video came... Read more →

Walter Scott's mother cries for her son and we cry for them... Read more →