by Mark Lewis Taylor * (first published at CounterPunch) If Trump is the price we have to pay to defeat Clintonian neoliberalism – so be it. Mumia Abu-Jamal With these words the revolutionary journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal offers a bold challenge to those who circulate the fear of a Donald Trump presidency to drum up a mandate for voting for Clinton. […]
Here is one carefully rewritten and revised section from chapter 1 of the newly released, 2015 edition of The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America. I also treated this issue of prison rape in a special section of the 2001 edition. None of many reviewers even mentioned the section or the […]
Listen to Podcast at RELIGION FOR LIFE: RELIGION, SOCIAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC LIFE I was pleased to do this interview with John Shuck on his Religion and Life program. The questions were excellent. Check it out here as I discuss the new revised and expanded edition of The Executed God.
“. . . having invited Booker Washington to his 1902 inauguration as president of Princeton University, Wilson spent the next eight years working to keep every other Negro off campus and out of the student body altogether (not wishing to make uncomfortable any southern white who happened to enroll for classes).” Kenneth O’Reilly, Nixon’s Piano: Presidents […]
Excerpt No. 8 from The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America (released, Nov. 1, 2015) This excerpt is from a section on “The Bitter Gall of Injustice” in chapter one’s treatment of Lockdown America’s dissemination and implanting of terror. The photo at right is from Oklahoma Watch and shows rows of double-stacked bunk […]
Excerpt No. 7 of The Executed God: This 2015 revised and expanded book is dedicated to Mumia Abu-Jamal. Moreover, my newly written main Preface to the book begins with Abu-Jamal’s words about Golgotha. This excerpt from the Preface, which follows Abu-Jamal’s quote, sets forth my book’s quiding argument in The Executed God: The Way of the Cross […]
Excerpt No. 6 from The Executed God – (click on above image, for full photo of Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence) My publisher, Fortress Press, has agreed to allow me to post segments of the forthcoming new edition of my book, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America (now just out). These posts will be altered […]
Except 5 from The Executed God: My publisher, Fortress Press, has agreed to allow me to post segments of the forthcoming new edition of my book, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America (now just out). These posts will be altered a bit for appearing here at my website, with some deletions and […]
Except 4 from The Executed God: My publisher, Fortress Press, has agreed to allow me to post segments of the forthcoming new edition of my book, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America (now just out). These posts will be altered a bit for appearing here at my website, with some deletions and […]
My publisher, Fortress Press, has agreed to allow me to post segments of the forthcoming new edition of my book, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America (due out November 1). These posts will be altered a bit for appearing here at my website, with some deletions and even additions made here. […]