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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 ...
A large crowd broke into the jail with sledgehammers, pulled out the three suspects, beating them and hanging them. When Abram Smith tried to free himself from the noose as his body was hauled up, he was lowered and men broke his arms to prevent such efforts. Police officers in the crowd cooperated in the lynching.
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.
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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".
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 ...
"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 ...