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My name is Reginald Sinclair Lewis. The name of this piece is "Say Our Names." It is certainly deeply heartening to see throngs of Americans of all ages, races, educations, economic, and social strata, marching side by side. [] Rage, as they shout "black lives matter" in a powerful new civil rights movement for police reform galvanized by the televised public lynching of George Floyd before cops on the streets of Minneapolis. We are witnesses to a rage and sea of change of the country, the rapid obliteration of the old world, the burgeoning of a national and global racist consciousness and conscience.But for countless no-named black men and women behind bars our death begins with a life sentence imposed by racist white judges,  prosecutors, and juries, [transcriber could not parse] personally selected to seal our fate. They give deference to the often precarious testimonies of police officers, detectives, medical examiners, and forensic experts. Failure to follow habeas corpus in federal court is also an act