White Supremacy and “White Innocence” Were Behind the Killings in Jacksonville
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. The murder of three Black people in Jacksonville, Florida, last month by white male supremacist Ryan Christopher Palmeter, who later killed himself, cannot be understood as anything […]
How We Misremember MLK
How We Misremember MLK Martin Luther King’s troubled saintliness By Vincent Lloyd September 5, 2023 As it is with candles, so it was with him: the more light he gave, the less there was of him.” This is how the novelist Charles Johnson imagines Martin Luther King Jr., a man whose self recedes as his commitment […]