Last Gasp: The Sunday night reader for 6/19/21

Philando Castile four years later, Jericho Brown, and Fathers

Four years ago, four years on

I wrote this four years ago today, just after a jury acquitted the police officer who killed Philando Castile. More than 1,400 days to change things, more people dead, more tension and grief — and nothing’s changed. Police reform gummed up here in Champaign and criminal violence has increased. Yet we stand paralyzed, dug in…