Crime & Justice

Whatever Else, Derek Chauvin Must Make Us Say ‘Never Again’

JUSTICE

The Tony Award-winning Broadway star writes that it is “imperative” that Derek Chauvin be found guilty of all the charges against him in the killing of George Floyd.

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I am a man. I am a Black man. I am a free Black man. Nonetheless, during my seventy-five years of existence on the Earth Plane, I have experienced a systemic, sometimes suffocating, yet ultimately symbiotic constriction that is almost inexpressible.

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