Bitter Gall of Injustice: Women in Prison

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 […]

THE ARGUMENT OF THE BOOK

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 […]

A Solidarity Feared by U.S. White Capitalist Power: Afro-Asian Movements Rising!

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 […]

Black Youth Project 100 – Fighting for Liberation Here & Abroad

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 […]

A SWAT Tradition: U.S. Militarized Police & “Police-Statism”

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 […]

On 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 (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. […]

The Book’s Cover Art: From Ferguson to Gaza. . . to Guatemala

In Mumia Abu-Jamal’s newly-released book, Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings (p. 223), he tells of Black Panther Kwando B. Kinshasa (of the New York Panther 21) doing time in the imperial U.S. army in Guatemala, but being politically radicalized there, too. It was the activists there that challenged him. They minced no words […]

U.S. Drone Strike Murders & Capital Punishment(s)

Excerpt One, from my book, 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 (due out November 1). These posts will be altered a bit for appearing here at my website, with […]

White Terror – Reflections after Charleston

By Mark Lewis Taylor Consider two dynamics of white terror today. For centuries both dynamics of this terror have persisted in the US. Both give succor to a scourge of political and social violence that many in the U.S. still hesitate to admit and redress, even – perhaps especially – in the wake of the […]