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Terence Keel
@terencekeel.bsky.social
Professor • Author • Director of the BioCritical Studies Lab
Mark your calendars for next week after the holiday! Hope to see you in #NYC or #Cambridge! ⬇️ #booktour
Thanks to all who have joined me this week as we kicked off the book tour for "The Coroner's Silence (@beaconpress.bsky.social)!
Next week you can find me in #NYC at the Center for Brooklyn History on Tues., Dec. 2 and at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social on Wed., Dec. 3. Hope to see you there!
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Each day, 3 people are expected to die in police custody. @terencekeel.bsky.social says the tragedy is that these victims have been failed many times over by local and state government. @brittanyepage.bsky.social
Professor Uncovers How Coroners are HELPING COPS COVER UP FOR KILLINGS!!!
Brittany Page welcomes Dr. Terence Keel to the Page Perspective to discuss his new book, "The Coroner's Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence." OUT NOW! Buy Dr. Keel's…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Thanks to all who have joined me this week as we kicked off the book tour for "The Coroner's Silence (@beaconpress.bsky.social)!
Next week you can find me in #NYC at the Center for Brooklyn History on Tues., Dec. 2 and at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social on Wed., Dec. 3. Hope to see you there!
November 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Excited for this conversation with @terencekeel.bsky.social in Brooklyn on Dec 2nd. www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Had a marvelous conversation with @brittanyepage.bsky.social on her wonderful show about our broken death investigation system. More to come.
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 AM
See you tomorrow night at Reparations Club! Join us for the book launch event of THE CORONER’S SILENCE (@beaconpress.bsky.social), moderated by Cerise Castle.
🗓️ Thursday, Nov. 13
⏰ 7:00 PM (PST)
📍 3054 South Victoria Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90016

#booklaunch #losangeles #reparationsclub #nonfiction
November 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Happy #PublicationDay, @terencekeel.bsky.social!🔍

THE CORONER’S SILENCE, his landmark intervention that uncovers how coroners and other death investigators are complicit in obscuring the violent circumstances of in-custody deaths, is a “searing exposé.” — @ruha9.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
“The Coroner’s Silence” is now available at bookstores near you. 📚 Thanks to @beaconpress.bsky.social my editor, supporters, and colleagues for helping make this work happen. We must not forget the misremembered victims of police violence & their stories. #pubday #bookrelease #nonfiction #truecrime
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Abandon the poor and unhealthy. Then call progressive democrats socialists for wanting fair wages and free healthcare.
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
"A stunning achievement. Reading this book changes how one sees this country and the people who bear the brunt of its contradictions. A tour de force and a must-read in these troubling times." —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. #newbook #bookrelease #nonfiction #truecrime #reading
November 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Preorder your copy of “The Coroner’s Silence” (@beaconpress.bsky.social) now. 🔗 rep.club/products/cor...
October 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Less than one month away! 📕 “The Coroner’s Silence” (@beaconpress.bsky.social) is coming a bookstore near you on Nov. 11. You can preorder your copy here: rep.club/products/cor...

#bookrelease #nonfiction #newbook #truecrime #preorder #thecoronerssilence
The Coroner's Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence
For readers of His Name Is George Floyd and Under the SkinA landmark investigation into forensic medicine that exposes the systematic concealment of state-sanctioned violence through death investigati...
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October 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The #Goodreads #giveaway for "The Coroner's Silence" (@beaconpress.bsky.social) ends this Friday! Click the link below to enter. ⬇️
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
October 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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@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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October 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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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
October 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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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
October 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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
September 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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.
September 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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
September 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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.
September 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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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@beaconpress.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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
August 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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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August 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Excited to share a preview of this important film, "Negotiating America: Vegetable Soup and Television’s Attempt to End Racism." Watch the preview here and you can read more about the project, linked below. vimeo.com/1003183502/3...
Negotiating America: Vegetable Soup and Television's Attempt to End Racism
Teaser for a documentary film currently in production: Negotiating America: Vegetable Soup and Television's Attempt to End Racism is a feature-length documentary…
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August 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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It’s 🔍COVER REVEAL🔍 Friday for @terencekeel.bsky.social at the #UCLA BCS Lab!

THE CORONER’S SILENCE is a landmark investigation into forensic medicine that exposes the systematic concealment of state-sanctioned police violence through death investigations.

Cover design: Carol Chu
August 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM