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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · 2d

The #Goodreads #giveaway for "The Coroner's Silence" (@beaconpress.bsky.social) ends this Friday! Click the link below to enter. ⬇️

Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · 24d

Book #giveaway is open now over on #Goodreads! Follow the link below to enter to win one of 25 copies of “The Coroner’s Silence,” (@beaconpress.bsky.social ) now through Oct. 11.
shorturl.at/muO9V
(U.S. only and a valid mailing address is required.)
#bookgiveaway #nonfiction #bookrelease #truecrime

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 2d

@terencekeel.bsky.social makes an important point here. Real public safety involves addressing the root causes of crime: low wages, lack of affordable housing, unmet health needs. Not draconian executive orders. @latimes.com

Contributor: The push to hold more nonviolent suspects in jail threatens public safety

Safety includes more than the free. It includes those of us who are incarcerated. Holding people needlessly costs lives.

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 9d

Our justice system has a responsibility to care for people who are incarcerated, regardless of their innocence. The Trump admin, unfortunately, doesn’t think so. @terencekeel.bsky.social

Contributor: The push to hold more nonviolent suspects in jail threatens public safety

Safety includes more than the free. It includes those of us who are incarcerated. Holding people needlessly costs lives.

www.latimes.com

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · 9d

As @beaconpress.bsky.social author @terencekeel.bsky.social opines in the @latimes.com, the push to hold more nonviolent suspects in jail instead endangers more people. Check out his great piece below.

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: The push to hold more nonviolent suspects in jail threatens public safety

Safety includes more than the free. It includes those of us who are incarcerated. Holding people needlessly costs lives.

www.latimes.com

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · 10d

I have an op/ed today published in #LATimes. My original title was “Why Ending Bail Reform Threatens Public Safety.” I believe people in jail have rights and are not simply suspects. #opinion #newwriting

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-09-30/zero-cash-bail-trump-executive-order

Contributor: The push to hold more nonviolent suspects in jail threatens public safety

Safety includes more than the free. It includes those of us who are incarcerated. Holding people needlessly costs lives.

www.latimes.com

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · 23d

This is a vital part of any thriving democracy, and transparency in state records and investigation files is one way to ensure that the people are protected against the overreach of the state.

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · 23d

Transparency and disclosure is one way to restore that faith, but it's also another way to ensure that the people are protected from the abuses, potential overreach, and mistakes of local government and elected officials.

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · 23d

Transparency and disclosure are vital for restoring faith in democracy, especially in a moment when Americans right now are very unsure about the state of our democracy and faith in our democratic institutions are at their lowest in decades.

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · 23d

We want to make sure that law enforcement and local government are doing right by people who lose their lives under circumstances that are not clear.

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · 23d

But they should. And the reason is that in a democracy we want to be able to allow the people to make sure that local officials are doing their due diligence and doing right by people who die under mysterious and untimely circumstances.

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · 23d

What this essentially means is that local residents—people in the state of Mississippi and the nation as a whole—really won't be able to see the official records by the death investigator or the medical examiner.

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · 23d

Many may not know that in the state of Mississippi, local death investigators and officials are under no obligation to publicly disclose the results of their investigation into a mysterious or untimely death.

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · 23d

Because of that, it's unlikely there will be a secondary autopsy in his case. But both of these cases, I believe, expose weaknesses and flaws in our democracy that I think we should be thinking about in this current political moment.

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · 23d

The case of Cory Zukatis is going to be a little bit more complicated. This was a 36-year-old white man who was unhoused, and with unhoused people, it's very difficult to get next of kin to represent them and potentially challenge the findings of local investigators and law enforcement.

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · 23d

The family of Reed, who is being represented by Benjamin Crump, are already working on an independent autopsy after local law enforcement were quick to rule out foul play in less than 24 hours after finding Trey dead.

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · 23d

Trey Reed and Cory Zukatis were both found dead hanging from trees in the state of Mississippi yesterday. Major media has been slow to cover this story, but more details have come out today.

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · 24d

Book #giveaway is open now over on #Goodreads! Follow the link below to enter to win one of 25 copies of “The Coroner’s Silence,” (@beaconpress.bsky.social ) now through Oct. 11.
shorturl.at/muO9V
(U.S. only and a valid mailing address is required.)
#bookgiveaway #nonfiction #bookrelease #truecrime

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · Sep 10

What we really need here in Los Angeles County are very basic things—investment into housing, investment into healthcare, investment into mental health services. These are the conditions that prevent people from going to jail in the first place.

Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · Sep 10

Attorney General of California Rob Bonta announced a law suit against LA County and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department for violating the civil rights of people in jail.

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · Sep 10

It’s no secret the jails in LA are the most dangerous in the United States. Just this year alone, there have been 36 deaths in 35 weeks, setting a record for the number of people who have died here in LA County jails during the month of September.

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · Sep 5

This fall I’ll be coming to a city near you—mark your calendars if you’re near #LA, #Baltimore, #DC, or #Cambridge to join us in discussion about “The Coroner’s Silence.

#booktour
#reparationsclub
#politicsandprose
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@harvardbookstore.bsky.social
@beaconpress.bsky.social

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · Aug 25

I talk a bit about the impact of her work in this documentary, which investigates the struggles and triumphs of Elizabeth Catlett as a Mexican American artist, activist, and pioneer in the Black Arts Movement.

vimeo.com/794547160/7f...

FINAL Catlett-_Vimeo.mp4

This is "FINAL Catlett-_Vimeo.mp4" by Kevin Kelley on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · Aug 25

Did you know Elizabeth Catlett was one of the first Black women to earn an MFA, and is the first woman of color to have a feature exhibit at the National Gallery of Art? A new exhibit of her work opens this weekend at The Art Institute of Chicago ⬇️ www.artic.edu/exhibitions/...

Elizabeth Catlett: "A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies" | The Art Institute of Chicago

Bringing together over 100 works from across Catlett’s awe-inspiring career, this long-overdue retrospective showcases the significant role this revolutionary artist and radical activist played in her time and still today.

www.artic.edu

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · Aug 21

The Russian #translation of "Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science" is now available. Big thanks to Academic Studies Press! #russiantranslation #nonfiction #booktranslations https://www.academicstudiespress.com/9798887199702/

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Terence Keel @terencekeel.bsky.social · Aug 15

negotiatingamerica.com

Negotiating America – Madisonfilm, Inc.

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