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In 1994, as chairwoman of a federal parliamentary inquiry into the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody, Henzell attacked state governments for not using or inappropriately using $50 million in federal implementation funding, stating (in relation to New South Wales) that "two years down the ...
"If We Must Die" is a poem by Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay (1890–1948) published in the July 1919 issue of The Liberator magazine. McKay wrote the poem in response to mob attacks by white Americans upon African-American communities during the Red Summer. The poem does not specifically reference any group of people, and has been used ...
The NAACP and the state's Attorney General pressed to indict leaders of the lynch mob, but, as was typical in lynchings, no one was ever charged for their deaths, nor for the attack on Cameron. [2] Cameron was later convicted and sentenced as an accessory to murder before the fact. He served some time in prison, then pursued work and an education.
Colin Roach was a 21-year-old black British man who died as a result of a fatal gunshot wound having entered a police-station reception. [1] [2] A subsequent inquest ruled his death was suicide - him having placed the barrel of a shotgun in to his mouth before squeezing the trigger - inside the entrance of Stoke Newington police station, in the London Borough of Hackney, on 12 January 1983.
Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison.The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960.
Date: July 13, 2015 (): Time: c. 9:00 a.m. Location: Waller County Jail, Hempstead, Texas Coordinates (traffic stop) (Waller County Jail): Type: Death in custody: Cause: Ruled a suicide by asphyxiation: Outcome: Charge dropped against Brian Encinia as part of a plea agreement: Deaths: Sandra Annette Bland: Burial: Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens West Willow Springs, Illinois, U.S.: Inquiries ...
It was dedicated to "Black and Unknown Bards" and in compiling it Kerlin sought high quality poetry but also "at least one fundamental quality of poetry, namely, passion." Negro Poets and Their Poems also includes biographical information about and some photographs of the poets whose work is included. In 1986, the scholar Vilma R. Potter noted ...
Whittaker's 2016 debut poetry collection Lemons in the Chicken Wire, which she has described as "a call to the humanity of Indigenous queer and trans mob". [5] For it she was awarded a black&write! fellowship from the State Library of Queensland, where it was described as a "highly original collection of poems bristling with stunning imagery and gritty textures".