A letter from Kevin Cooper to Death Penalty Focus.

By Kevin Cooper in 2015 Still Relevant today (December 2019) (Original recording can be found here: https://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/kevin-cooper/real-justice-not-cowboy-justice-rodney-reed-255-kevin-cooper) Mr. Rodney Reed who is an innocent African American man on death row in the state of Texas is in the fight of his life, for his life. He and his family are doing something within a state that

This article was originally published on https://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-key-reparation-to-descendants-of-slaves-wouldnt-cost-a-dime/ Ending the death penalty, which is disproportionately imposed on African Americans, would be a good first step toward righting some of this nation’s wrongs.   On Oct. 10—World Day Against the Death Penalty—opponents around the globe gathered to call attention to the conditions of men and women living

This essay was originally publish on https://www.truthdig.com/articles/america-cant-wipe-itself-clean-of-blackface/ Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam offers a painful reminder that certain white people in this country just don’t get it, and likely never will. On March 14, 1968, The Rev. Martin Luther King gave a speech in South Grosse Pointe, Mich., in which he stated: “We will never solve

This essay was originally published on https://www.truthdig.com/articles/who-is-kevin-cooper/ After being defined by so many others in unrecognizable terms, it’s time to set the record straight. Editor’s note: Kevin Cooper was convicted of a 1983 quadruple murder and sentenced to death in a trial in which evidence that might have exonerated him was withheld from the defense.