By Felicia Gustin “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” –Frantz Fanon (1925 - 1961), philosopher, revolutionary, author, and pre-eminent thinker on the issue of decolonization A photo essay by Micki Luckey and Lili Shidlovski Protests against police violence are occurring daily in thousands of cities and towns across the country since the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. The brutality of this modern lynching followed closely upon the killing of Sean Reed, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbury, and then Rayshard Brooks was shot in Atlanta on June 13. In recent years police killed about 1000 people per year all over the country , a disproportionate number of them Black.
By Micki Luckey
“We at the Movement For Black Lives believe that it is our mandate, in a moment where the police and vigilantes have increased their terror, that we make a clear and proud commitment to be in Defense of Black Lives.” M4BL |
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