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A poem by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Elegy Ending With a Cell Door Closing
— for Rojai Fentress
& the Judge told him to count
The trees in the parking lot
Where there were only cars: Zero
The same number of stars
You could see on a night in the city.
& the Judge told him the parking lot will
Be crowded with trees, oaks & spruces
& pines & willows & grass & maybe
Horses before he smells the city
On a Sunday afternoon; & another
Word for this story is azalea, the purple
Bouquet his mother might have buried
Her face against, had she known for this
Judge sentencing Fats was a Funeral —
A mourning, another purplish bruise; Fats
Pled not guilty, which is to say, he has never
Murdered a man, & in the courtroom, he
Washed his hands against the air, as if
To say fuck everything; imagine, no hair
Troubled his face that afternoon &
He'd never held a razor, except
Inside his mouth, the best weapon a man
Could hope for, unless you were
The cat I saw tussle, for a second,
With a Louisville slugger, turning
The razor under that man’s tongue
Into a kind of prayer, his hands leaping
To his face & blood appearing as if
Always there, & the man’s hands
Fumbling against the air, as if ablution
Could be found drenched in blood,
& remembering reminds me that Fat’s
Washing was a kind of holy, a plea,
A reaching, for trees, for wild horses,
For all the violence he’s known, to make
Of him free, when innocence failed.
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Hear Reginald Dwayne Betts read “Elegy Ending with a Cell Door Closing” (illustrated by Louisa Bertman)
Reginald Dwayne Betts writes about the background to the poem and the wider legal ramifications of juvenile crime and sentencing in an essay in the Yale Law Journal.
Image: Louisa Bertman
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Reclaiming Stonewall. The Nation. July 15/22, 2019. Illustration by Louisa Bertman.
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Progressive 2018 Honor Roll. The Nation. January 14-21, 2019. Illustration by Louisa Bertman. Lettering by Sinead Cheung.
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TONIGHT!! 6pm Social Justice Film Festival!! Screening Elegy Ending with a Cell Door Closing 10/12/19 6-9pm University Heights Center 5031 University Way, Seattle, WA 98105 Elegy Ending with a Cell Door Closing has been selected for the 8th Annual Social Justice Film Festival!! Written and spoken by the brilliant poet, memoirist, teacher, lawyer and Guggenheim Fellow, Reginald Dwayne Betts, "Elegy Ending with a Cell Door Closing" is a creative non-fiction animated poem about his friend/former cellmate Rojai Fentress (aka Fats) who in 1996 was a 15 year old child sentenced to life in prison for a crime he did not commit. On the strength of one witness who didn't actually see the slaying, and with zero physical evidence linking #Fentress to the homicide, a jury found him guilty on the murder charge. It is now 2019, over 2 decades later and this innocent teenager (now 39 yrs old) is still in prison! (please consider sharing to help spread #RojaiFentress' story) The piece was originally commissioned by WNYC Studios for "Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice" Podcast Series. COURAGE: The 2019 Social Justice Film Festival Saturday, October 12th 6pm University Heights Center #fightforfreedom #socialjustice #juvenilejustice #prisonreform #blacklivesmatter #PENAmerica #youthjustice #theroot #wnycstudios #FreeRojaiFentress #freerojai #visualnarrative #story #visualjournalism #innocenceproject #thisisamerica #dwaynebetts #louisabertman #illustration #animation #femaleillustrators #PENAmerica #SVAAlumni #MFAVN #svaalumni #parsonsillustration #lesleyillustration #myfeminismis #Womeninmedia #EconomicHardship Elegy Ending with a Cell Door Closing by Dwayne Betts and Louisa Bertman https://vimeo.com/272258596 https://www.instagram.com/p/B3iFJCKhPbL/?igshid=1mwmytgg70z7i
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It’s Monday, December 2. The Supreme Court heard arguments for the first gun-rights case in a decade. The fact that it even took this case is consequential.
In today’s newsletter: borrowing from the field of psychology, a fascinating theory on Trump’s unwavering base. Plus, John Kerry’s World War Zero.
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(Louisa Bertman)
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”
Of all the Trump-isms regularly quoted today, perhaps none has proved more prescient than the president’s own 2016 boast about his rock-solid support.
1. It’s all about his base.
Unlike all modern presidents, President Donald Trump’s approval rating hasn’t cracked 50 percent since he took office.
But among those who voted for him in 2016, upwards of 90 percent are still on board the Trump Train.
My colleague Peter Nicholas, one of our White House reporters, has heard firsthand from the president’s supporters on this seemingly unassailable appeal.
“You ask what appeals to me [about Trump],” one 47-year-old business owner told Peter at a July rally in North Carolina. “The easiest way to say it: everything. Everything about him.”
“Everyone loves our president,” the chief executive officer of My Pillow told Peter at an October rally in Minnesota. “Some just don’t know yet it.”
2. It’s … not all about his base.
Playing only to the base might not be the most politically astute gambit for Trump in 2020, Ron Brownstein writes.
Around 16 to 19 percent of voters approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, but still disapprove of his overall job performance.
This voting bloc could be key to whether Trump wins another term.
3. Can understanding how narcissists attract—and then repel—people help explain Trump’s relationship with his base?
The psychologist Dan P. McAdams has a new theory for why Trump’s base has never abandoned him—even as the president cycles through advisers and Cabinet members more quickly than predecessors:
The millions of American voters who adore the president do not have to interact with him directly.
Unlike the White House staff, they do not have to endure Trump’s incendiary outbursts or kowtow to his unpredictable whims. As anonymous members of a television audience, they can gaze upon their hero from afar.
The full piece is full of fascinating research. Read it here.
—Saahil Desai
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« SNAPSHOT »
(Bryan Snyder / Reuters)
Joe Biden makes a stop today at a cafe in Emmetsburg, Iowa as part of his new “No Malarkey” bus tour. (Need a refresher on the origins of Biden and “malarkey?”)
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Former White House Counsel Don McGahn (Jim Bourg / Reuters)
It’s a big week for impeachment as the inquiry wends its way to the House Judiciary Committee. Here’s where sparks might fly.
1. Experts are now eyeing the relationship between Trump and the Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court is a check on executive power—but the conservative majority on the current bench has been reluctant to break with Trump, Ron Brownstein writes, leaving one man in a central (pun intended) position.
2. Will Robert Mueller return?
Didn’t mean to startle you—we mean, return in the form of details from his 448-page multipart report, released earlier this year.
The Judiciary Committee will have to decide how much of the special counsel’s findings to include in its final recommendation for impeachment, setting up a “question of goals of [Jerry] Nadler, Nancy Pelosi, and the Democratic caucus,” Benjamin Wittes and Quinta Jurecic write.
3. Have the normally forceful forces of subpoenas lost their bite?
Among the evidence Democrats are using to build a possible obstruction of justice charge against Trump is his office’s extensive use of executive privilege to defy Congressional subpoenas.
“The House should fight hard for access to the full story about the president’s Ukraine shenanigans,” Kim Wehle argues, “and not let the executive branch win by default.”
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(Hamilton / Rea / Redux)
The former secretary of state has been at the forefront of major climate negotiations around the world, from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the 2015 Paris Agreement.
He’s now taking another approach: a new bipartisan, celebrity-studded climate initiative called World War Zero.
Kerry spoke with our climate writer Robinson Meyer about 2020 and the work left to be done on climate change:
The fact that emissions are going up in the United States, they’re going up in Europe, they’re going up in China, they’re going up in India, they’re going up in countless countries in the world, that is just—I could use an expletive, but it’s really unacceptable. It’s outrageous.
Read what Kerry said would set his new organization apart.
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Invitation to Boston Exhibition of Contemporary Portraits
Artists: Scott Bakal, Wesley Bedrosian, Rick Berry, Louisa Bertman, Barry Blitt, Steve Brodner, Calef Brown, Marc Burckhardt, Chris Buzelli, Kristina Carroll, Domenic Civiello, Joe Ciardiello, John Cuneo, Lisa Desimini, John S. Dykes, Daniel Fishel, Jody Hewgill, Yohey Horishita, Robert Hunt, Victor Juhasz, Gary Kelley, Edward Kinsella, Shannon Knight, Stephen Kroninger, Anita Kunz, Matt Mahurin, Greg Manchess, Victoria Maxfield, Tim O’Brien, Roberto Parada, CF Payne, Rich Pellegrino, Krista Perry, Hanoch Piven, Sean Qualls, Irvin Rodriguez, Greg Ruth, Yuko Shimizu, Bob Staake, Dale Stephanos, Mark Todd, Eric Velasquez, Gizem Vural, Sam Weber and Alan Witschonke. Curator: Scott Bakal
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Progressive 2018 Honor Roll. The Nation. January 14-21, 2019. Illustration by Louisa Bertman. Lettering by Sinead Cheung.
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The Disrupters. The Nation. April 30/May 7, 2018. Illustration by Louisa Bertman.
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(complete animation) Honored to be includeded in Society of Illustrators #Illustrators61 Exhibition/Reception 1/9/19! On any given night, roughly 53,000 young people are in some form of lockup. Nearly 60 percent are black or Latino. #WNYC Studios Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice-tells the stories of young lives forever changed by collisions with law and order. "Elegy Ending with a Cell Door Closing" (written and spoken by #DwayneBetts) introduces the story of 15 year old #RojaiFentress (aka Fats) who in 1996 was sentenced to life in prison for a crime he did not commit. On the strength of one witness who didn't actually see the slaying, and with no physical evidence linking Fentress to the homicide, a jury found him guilty on the murder charge. It is now 2018, over 2 decades later and this innocent teenager” now 38 yrs old - is still in prison." WNYC Studios | Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice Title: Elegy Ending With A Cell Door Closing Written and Spoken: Reginald Dwayne Betts @dwaynebetts Illustrated and Animated: Louisa Bertman @louisabertman Creative Director: Rhyne Piggott @rhyne Executive Producer: Karen Frillmann Original Score Hannis Brown WNYC WNYC Studios & The Root https://vimeo.com/272258596 To read and listen to all episodes of Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice Podcast: www.wnycstudios.org/shows/caught/episodes New info and Recent article on Fentress case: https://www.newsleader.com/story/news/local/2018/12/13/prosecutor-says-22-years-enough-man-convicted-murder-teen/2276696002/. #wnyc #NPR #penamerica #illustration #animation #visualnarrative #story #louisabertman @wamnycevents @wia_animation Animation #juvenilejustice @thewomenwhodraw #visualjournalism A shout out and huge thanks to SOI Jon Burgerman, Lauren Tamaki, and the #illustrators61 Institutional Category Judges: Antonio Alcala @tomcjbrown @gninamarowitz @jendotlu DotLu, @rudy_gutierrez_art @benjamin_marra @eumiel @yukoart, and @rich_tu https://www.instagram.com/p/BscIUA4BWQD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=spz1l46o8ou0
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