About Kay Whitlock
Kay Whitlock is a writer and activist who has been involved with racial, gender, queer, and economic justice movements since 1968. She is coauthor of Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics with Michael Bronski, the award-winning Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States with Joey L. Mogul and Andrea J. Ritchie, and cofounder and contributing editor for the weekly Criminal Injustice series at CriticalMassProgress.com. She lives in Missoula, Montana.
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A version of this article appears in the Fall 2016 edition of The Public Eye magazine.
This is, in some respects, a ghost story. A political ghost story in which
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This commentary originally published at In These Times.
The acquittal of George Zimmerman made us furious. But will a hate-crime conviction make anything better?
A nightmarish convergence of factors combined to deprive 17-year old Trayvon Martin of his life and
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Demonstrators stand and listen to speakers during a rally to protest the death of Trayvon Martin in Miami. Lucas Jackson / Reuters
This article excerpted from a Political Research Associates discussion paper, available online.
In 1998, three White men in
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