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Kevin Cooper: Experiencing COVID-19 on Death Row
Kevin Cooper is a death row inmate at California’s San Quentin Prison. To see more of is writing during the pandemic, as well as his podcast coversations with Robert Scheer, click here. By Kevin...
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Life on Lockdown
“Free Me,” a painting by Kevin Cooper, courtesy of the artist. Kevin Cooper is a death row inmate at California’s San Quentin Prison. By Kevin Cooper As a human being on lockdown inside a...
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Why California Needs an Innocence Commission
By Kevin Cooper Kevin Cooper is a death row inmate at California’s San Quentin Prison. Throughout the very tortured history of the Divided States of America, the so-called criminal justice system...
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Kevin Cooper: Is California About to Execute an Innocent Man?
“Free Me” painting by Kevin Cooper Editor’s Note: We’re reposting this episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” which originally aired in 2018, in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter protests taking place...
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Kevin Cooper: Those Eyes
By Kevin Cooper “Under slavery we were the master’s slave, but after slavery, we became everybody’s slave … [T]here has always been open and closed season on hunting and game, but there has never been...
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View from Death Row: The Disproportionate Blues
By Kevin Cooper Here in the year of 2020 of the 21st century, we descendants of the people who created and first started singing the blues set to music, way back in the 19th century, are still singing...
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View from Death Row: We Are the Living Dead
People hold up a banner while listening to a news conference outside San Quentin State Prison Thursday, July 9, 2020, in San Quentin, Calif. A group of legislators, advocates, academics and public...
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The Electoral College Must Go
George Washington gives his first inugural speech in the old city hall, New York, after being made president by the state electors in April 1789. Painted by T.H. Matteson; engraved on steel by H.S....
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Music and Black America’s Continuous Struggle for Freedom
By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost Kevin Cooper writes regularly for ScheerPost from his cell on Death Row at San Quentin prison. To read about his case, visit kevincooper.org It has been stated...
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Gov. Newsom Orders Independent Investigation Into Kevin Cooper Case
Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered an independent investigation into the case of Kevin Cooper, a death row inmate who writes regularly for ScheerPost. To learn more about his story, we are reposting this...
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Kevin Cooper: The Truth
Picture of Kevin Cooper By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost When I was in grade school, back in the 1960s, and I was uneducated, I was sent to school to be educated on the truth in every level of...
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Kevin Cooper: My Experience with the Death Penalty
“Free Me” painting by Kevin Cooper By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost It’s time, or way past time, to once and for all rid ourselves of capital punishment, to end the death penalty not just in...
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‘Freedom’
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Joachim Prinz pictured, 1963. Center for Jewish History, NYC, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons By Kevin Cooper / Original to...
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Kevin Cooper: An Undeniable Truth
The lethal injection room at San Quentin State Prison, completed in 2010. CACorrections (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Kevin Cooper...
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Kevin Cooper: Whitewashing Historical Truths: The Story of Sullivan’s Island
Sullivan’s Island. Photo from BlackThen.com By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost Throughout the history of this country, the narrative has remained for the most part a white—and a whitewashed—...
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[rewind] Kevin Cooper: The Truth
via Wikimedia Commons By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost When I was in grade school, back in the 1960s, and I was uneducated, I was sent to school to be educated on the truth in every level of...
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[rewind] Kevin Cooper: My Experience With the Death Penalty
“Free Me” painting by Kevin Cooper By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost It’s time, or way past time, to once and for all rid ourselves of capital punishment, to end the death penalty not just in...
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Kevin Cooper: I, Too, Am American
Photo by Hédi Benyounes on Unsplash By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost A poem by Langston Hughes-1902-1967 I, TooI, too, sing America. I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the...
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White Man’s Justice Is Black People’s Grief: A Black History Month Truth
Picture of Kevin Cooper By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost “It’s not whether you win or lose that counts, but how you play the game that matters.” That’s what my people are often told. But we...
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The Day the Handcuffs Came Off: From Death Row to Being Seen as Human
STOCKTON, US – Jul 27, 2004: California Prison Unit in California (Shutterstock) By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost Kevin Cooper, incarcerated on San Quentin’s death row for 39 years and still...
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