It took four years for the FBI to release its file on Aretha Franklin. Requested via the Freedom of Information Act in 2018, the heavily redacted documents are filled with racist language and extreme surveillance of the late Detroit-based singer and activist. Based on the agency’s admissions, Franklin never did anything wrong. The overstepping surveillance […]
Afeni Evans
Afeni Evans is an activist and organizer, a former Movement for Black Lives Fellow, and field director for Mckayla Wilkes. Currently, she is a voter engagement organizer with Life After Release and also supports the organization's participatory defense work. Their focus as an organization is to educate community members on their rights, supporting incarcerated people through legal aid and material support. Afeni's passion for advocacy and voice is lended to all marginalized people from our Palestinian cousins to protesters being brutalized in Nigeria, Afeni's voice knows no border. Afeni is passionate about equity, anti-racism and transformative mutual aid.