Poets & Writers

A Note to the Shareholders

, I’m still listening to the fourth record from Run the Jewels, the rap duo composed of El-P and Killer Mike. The album was released during the height of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations held in over two thousand cities and towns throughout all fifty American states and in communities around the globe. The protests followed the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on May 25; the killing of Dreasjon “Sean” Reed in Indianapolis by police on May 6; the death of Breonna Taylor, killed by

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