Post by Jamel Adkins-Sharif, EdD, JD
Assistant Professor of P-12 Education Leadership | Spencer Grant Recipient | Co-Founder, Educan Trust, LLC
How many can recall images of Martin, Rosa, Malcolm, Angela, Marcus or Fannie all holding up that mugshot plate? Our greatest leaders and freedom fighters were all criminalized by the U.S. government. The same U.S. government that legalized slavery and outlawed your escape from bondage It legalized illiteracy and outlawed your desire to read and write It legalized Jim Crow and oulawed your demands for equality Today it legalizes racial gerrymandering while outlawing most of the Voting Rights Act your grandparents marched, bled, and died for What does that tell you about its relationship to Black liberation?
