Lives Changed, Justice Elusive
In November 2013, an African American teenager set the skirt of an agender youth on fire. Sasha was badly burned; Richard was arrested. Dashka Slater\u2019s account of the incident, the two students and their parents, and the criminal prosecution of Richard raises important questions about class, race, gender identity, and, not least, justice \u2013 what it entails and how it might have been enacted in Richard\u2019s case.\nDashka Slater, The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017\nThe post Lives Changed, Justice Elusive appeared first on KPFA.