Tyre Nichols’ brutal death is part of a violent history in America. Hiding from our past won't change that, writes Goldie Taylor
nearly 55 years ago. None of the officers involved in Nichols’ murder are old enough to know him, but, in so many ways, he knew them. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., joined by Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, Ralph David Abernathy, and others, was in Memphis on April 4, 1968, to support a sanitation strike. But, more than that, Dr. King was there because he was thinking about Nichols—and the five police officers who killed him.
, until he was clinging to threads of life, one must first understand what brought them to that corner.it is a history that defines and still confines us today. But some people, too many people, don’t believe that. Conservatives like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis believe diverse perspectives, specifically those that offer experiences that run counter to the America he envisions, have no place in the classroom. To hear DeSantis, a likely 2024 GOP candidate for president, tell it, course work that acknowledges our nation’s troubled civil and human rights history should be criminalized—and he’s starting with teachers.
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