frances newton
that justice is a blind goddess
is a thing to which we black are wise:
her bandage hides two festering sores
that once perhaps were eyes. - l. hughes.
they killed another person in huntsville tonight (the first black woman to be executed since the reconstruction era), who had inadequate legal representation and whose potentially exculpatory evidence had been destroyed by the state.
the supreme court denied the final appeal. gov. perry remained silent to requests for a stay of execution to re-evaluate the evidence.
i remember the fight for shaka sankofa's life in 2000.
making calls to the governor's office doesn't help if no one picks up the phone.
is a thing to which we black are wise:
her bandage hides two festering sores
that once perhaps were eyes. - l. hughes.
they killed another person in huntsville tonight (the first black woman to be executed since the reconstruction era), who had inadequate legal representation and whose potentially exculpatory evidence had been destroyed by the state.
the supreme court denied the final appeal. gov. perry remained silent to requests for a stay of execution to re-evaluate the evidence.
i remember the fight for shaka sankofa's life in 2000.
making calls to the governor's office doesn't help if no one picks up the phone.