Mary Hooks is a Prism Senior Fellow focused on Black and LGBTQ+ liberation in the South. A Black lesbian, feminist, and mother, Mary is co-director of Southerners on New Ground (SONG).
We are in a moment where the legitimacy of the institution of policing is being questioned and side-eyed. Liberation movements have cried loud and spared not the daily killings of Black people at the hands of the police. They’ve woken up the consciousness of everyday people about the history
One of the first times I remember encountering police was when I was in second grade, circa 1990. My teacher had made an announcement that we’d have a special guest and things would run differently from our usual schedule. The angst in the air to meet a “special guest”
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