Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an activist and writer based in Chicago, Illinois. Her writings have appeared in the International Socialist Review and CounterPunch. She is author of Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: Racism in America Today and Rediscovering Race and Class after Katrina. She can be reached at [email protected].

Guest Commentary

The Bride Wore Black

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Guest Commentator

Sean Bell was murdered and his two friends, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield, were maimed by New York City cops minutes after the trio finished celebrating Bell’s marriage the next day. The three were set up by undercover cops who were looking for trouble in a bar in Queens; they were trapped in their car…

Sean Bell was murdered and his two friends, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield, were maimed by New York City cops minutes after the trio finished celebrating…

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