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Category Archives: Justice Chronicles
Talladega Knights: The Ballad of Bubba Wallace, “Sweet Home Alabama,” and the Day of the Noose
Headline: Bubba Wallace, NASCAR’s only Black driver who races full-time in NASCAR’s top three series – a noose was found in his garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway, “the biggest and baddest track.” NASCAR has banned the Confederate flag from its … Continue reading
Posted in Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, crime, Justice Chronicles, Lest We Forget, Politics, race, Revolution, Slavery
Tagged "Sweet Home Alabama", Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Bubba Wallace, Confederacy, Confederate flag, Lynyard Skynyrd, NASCAR, Noose, Nooses, Talladega Alabama, Talladega Superspeedway, white supremacy
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Juneteenth!
From my award-winning epic poem, “Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass: Remembrance of Things Past and Present”: XXI The Emancipator, the Great Friend of the Negro, wanted to save the Union, at any cost. The South could have … Continue reading
Posted in Black patriotism, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Justice Chronicles, Lest We Forget, Poetry, Politics, race, Revolution
Tagged 1st North Carolina Volunteers, 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Abraham Lincoln, America's Civil War, Confederate States of America, Corps d' Afrique, Day of Jubilee, Emancipation Proclamation, Fort Sumter, Juneteenth, NYC Draft Riots, rebel states, Southern disunionists, Southern rebels, Southern Secessionists
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A Bibliography of Police Misconduct for Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats
As I have indicated elsewhere, when working on my collection of poetry about police misconduct, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, I drew on news reports and headlines. While doing a little Spring cleaning, I came across the original manuscript … Continue reading
Posted in Amadou Diallo, being a teenager, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, crime, Justice Chronicles, juveniles, Lest We Forget, Murder, NYPD, Poetry, police involved shooting, police-involved killing, Politics, race, raising black boys, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, Streets of Rage, Urban Impact
Tagged "A Bit of Justice", "Black undercover cop is shot; a case of possibble 'friendly fire'", "City Hall rally rebukes Workfare, "Don't let it happen again", "Los Angeles Officer Is Held in Drug Theft in Unusual Graft Case", "Neighbors call shooting unjust", "No Way Out", "Police brutaliy protesters rally against 'Stolen Lives'", "Police kill suspect in domestic dispute", "Real reform can stop police brutality", "Settlement of $3 Million in Fatal Choking by Officer", "The War at Home", BlackLivesMatter, Charles Brooks, Daniel Wise, Daryle Lamont Jenkins, Ed Morales, Gore Vidal, Herb Boyd, John Milgrim, Margaret Sena-Stahl, Michael Randall, New York Amsterdam News, Peter Richmond, police brutality, Suspect shot by cop still in ICU"
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The Slaughter of the Innocents
In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, I have been rereading some of my poems in my collection about police misconduct, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats. I am even more disturbed now than when in 1995 I … Continue reading
Posted in being a teenager, crime, Growing Up, Justice Chronicles, juveniles, Lest We Forget, Murder, NYPD, police involved shooting, police-involved killing, race, raising black boys, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, Streets of Rage
Tagged BlackLivesMatter, cops and robbers, police killing, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, The Slaughter of the Innocents, toy guns
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ABRACADABRA! Or Notes on the War on Crime, Redux
In 1989 I wrote an award-winning essay, “ABRACADABRA! Or Notes on the War on Crime.” In it I mentioned those magic words crimefighting politicians would utter as the solution to the “crime problem”: “more police, more prisons, longer prison terms.” … Continue reading
Posted in crime, Justice Chronicles, Martin Luther King, police-involved killing, Politics, race, raising black boys, Streets of Rage
Tagged Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Bill Clinton, crime, DerekChauvin, Donald Trump, Dr. King, George Bush, George Floyd, hyper incarceration, Loic Wacquant, Mass Incarceration, Rev. Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan
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“NYPD detective indicted on perjury charges: DA”
Joseph Franco, a suspended NYPD detective, was indicted for perjury, official misconduct and filing false documents in connection with narcotic cases he was involved in between 2017 and 2018. As a result of Franco’s perjury and related charges, three people … Continue reading
On this Day in American History, April 24, 2019 – White supremacist killer of James Byrd Jr. Executed
Some say it was “one of the most notorious hate crimes of modern times.” James Byrd Jr., a 48 year old Black male, was targeted and murdered by white racists in 1998 in Jasper, Texas. They tied him to their … Continue reading
Ham Sandwiches, Indictments, and Unjust Convictions
One of the fundamental problems of the U.S. criminal legal system is the nearly unfettered power of prosecutors to indict, so much so that Judge Learned Hand once quipped that a prosecutor could get a ham sandwich indicted. (Note that … Continue reading
Posted in crime, Justice Chronicles, Streets of Rage, Urban Impact
Tagged a prosecutor can get a ham sandwich indicted, Charles Hynes, Disney World, Elizabeth Holtzman, exculpatory evidence, exonerations, Grand Juries, Jonathan fleming, Judge Learned Hand, Kenneth P. Thompson, Solomon "Sol" Wachtler
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