From Death Row to Transgender Rights: The Prison Yard as a School for Activists
Editor’s Note: This is a two-part story — first the activist speaks, and then his student follows. PART I: The Teacher, By Kevin Cooper STOCKTON, CA. — I arrived at…
The Day the Handcuffs Came Off: From Death Row to Being Seen as Human
By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost Kevin Cooper, incarcerated on San Quentin’s death row for 39 years and still fighting to prove his innocence, has been moved to the…
White Man’s Justice Is Black People’s Grief: A Black History Month Truth
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…
Kevin Cooper: I, Too, Am American
By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost A poem by Langston Hughes-1902-1967 I, Too I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen…
[rewind] Kevin Cooper: My Experience With the Death Penalty
On February 9, 2004, Kevin Cooper came within 3 hours and 45 minutes of being murdered by the state of California. In this essay, Cooper recounts his experience with the…
[rewind] Kevin Cooper: The Truth
Kevin Cooper reflects on American history, Christopher Columbus' real legacy, and Indigenous Peoples Day.
Kevin Cooper: Whitewashing Historical Truths: The Story of Sullivan’s Island
While everyone's heard of Ellis Island, the equivalent port of arrival for countless slaves is rarely mentioned in American history, writes Kevin Cooper from death row in San Quentin.
Kevin Cooper: An Undeniable Truth
By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost As a man of African American descent who has studied and learned the truth about American history— the real truth about the real…
‘Freedom’
Can Oppressed People Ever Truly Be Free In America?
Kevin Cooper: My Experience with the Death Penalty
On February 9, 2004, Kevin Cooper came within 3 hours and 45 minutes of being murdered by the state of California. In this essay, Cooper recounts his experience with the…
Kevin Cooper: The Truth
Kevin Cooper reflects on American history, Christopher Columbus' real legacy, and Indigenous Peoples Day.
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Gov. Newsom Orders Independent Investigation Into Kevin Cooper Case
Kevin Cooper was convicted of a 1983 quadruple murder and sentenced to death in a trial in which evidence that might have exonerated him was withheld from the defense.
Music and Black America’s Continuous Struggle for Freedom
Kevin Cooper explores the music that was created seemingly for the purpose of helping Black America's historic struggle find a language of its own and shares some of his all-time…
The Electoral College Must Go
It's long since time to end this legacy of slavery and racism which insures some votes are worth far more than others.
View from Death Row: We Are the Living Dead
For weeks, prisoners at San Quentin have been sick and dying as the epidemic spread rapidly in the crowded, stacked cells. Then the author fell ill, too.