On the 5th anniversary of Tamir Rice’s shooting, victims’ families share the trauma that follows police brutality.
Jacinda Townsend
Jacinda Townsend is the author of Saint Monkey (Norton, 2014), which is set in 1950’s Eastern Kentucky and won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the... James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. Saint Monkey was also the 2015 Honor Book of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She is a former broadcast journalist and lawyer.
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