kevin davis georgia. dennis, texas. brisbane, phoenix. tamir rice, ohio. akai gurley, new york. carlos perez, nevada.owell, missouri. ford, california. dylan taylor, utah. john the third of ohio. charlie lando of california, and the list goes on. amy: that is georgia democratic congress member hank johnson speaking on the for the house of representatives. for more, we're joined by khalil muhammad, author of the book "the condemnation of blackness: race, crime, and the making of modern urban america". he is the director of the new york public library's schomburg center for research in black culture, and also a visiting professor at the cuny graduate center. welcome to democracy now! hank johnson, what he just said -- the litany of names. khalil: it reminds me of the rollcall of lynching victims. they used to publish it every year, and the primary goal was to acknowledge and provide data for the evidence of the unjustness of the lives taken by vigilantes and state actors, year after year, decade after decade. here we are again, 100 years after the lynching era began and we are faced with the same crisi