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

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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