To Bigger and his kind, white people were not really people; they were a sort of great natural force, like a stormy sky looming overhead or like a deep swirling river stretching suddenly at one’s feet in the dark. Richard Wright, Native Son (1940) The memoir, N, by James Henry Harris, Distinguished Professor of
Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) strapped
Daniel Lewis Lee to an execution gurney in the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. With the execution chamber curtains closed, correctional officials left him there for four hours while federal prosecutors filed pleadings in a federal appeals court to lift a stay of execution they had forgotten was still in effect. When the stay was lifted at 6:36 a.m., without notifying Lee’s counsel, the BOP commenced the execution, injecting him with a fatal dose of the drug pentobarbital. He was pronounced dead at 7:07 a.m. Central time.
When Lee’s lawyer,
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A United States Congress subcommittee will soon take up the question of whether a committee should be established to address the question of payment of reparations in connection with America’s history of slavery. For centuries, wars in Africa between tribes resulted in the production of slaves imported to Europe and the Colonies, and eventually the United States as well. Those slave-hunting parties were typically made up of local Africans, frequently aided by Arab slave traders. The markets primarily in Western Africa thrived on human flesh and bondage. The United States and other nations took advantage of the African slave trade to their economic benefit. The United Stat