Let’s Honor Kevin Johnson by Dismantling the Systems That Failed Him

The execution of Kevin Johnson exposes the dysfunction and cruelty of this country, which failed him his whole life.

To be Black in the U.S. is to hope in the face of a continuum of social, political, economic and psychological “death sentences.” As Black people, many of us have learned to hope against hope. It is hard because it is such a fragile thing — to hope that we might be shown grace. Despite what I have come to know about the anti-Black hydraulics of the criminal legal system...

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