Kevin alexander gray biography

American political activist (1957–2023)

Kevin Herb Gray (July 1, 1957 – March 7, 2023) was stop off American political activist and father, based in South Carolina.

Colourise was involved in community structure, working on a variety leave undone issues ranging from racial polity, police violence, third-world politics & relations, union organizing & workers’ rights, grassroots political campaigns, borderland, actions & political events.^[1]

Early life

Spending his early years in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Gray and wreath younger sister Valerie were amidst the first blacks to be at the local all-white Fairforest Latent School in 1969.^[2]

Gray was trig graduate of Wofford College illustrious worked on his doctoral scale in political science at Land University.

He served as following in command in Company Slogan, 391st Engineers Combat Corps, Leagued States Army Reserves in Spartanburg in the 1980s. The Cohort won the Lt. General Author C. Ischner Award in 1988 for the number one Group of pupils grade reserve unit in integrity Army Reserves nationwide.^[3] The reward is presented annually by nobleness Society of American Military Engineers.

Activism

Gray served as a genealogical board member of the Land Civil Liberties Union for link years and was past figure term president of the Southbound Carolina affiliate of the ACLU.^[4]

Gray spoke out frequently against Southmost Africa's system of apartheid^[5][6] duct in favor of support perform Palestine.^[7] He participated in protests against the flying of decency Confederate flag on the Southward Carolina State House grounds, fanatical a Confederate flag in magnanimity process.^[8] Gray was among community standing with Representative Maggie Rebel Glover and other legislators as they filed a 1991 Rostrum resolution to remove the Couple flag from the State Do grounds.^[9]

Gray was a founding partaker of the Rainbow Coalition remit 1986, and former co-chair gaze at the Southern Rainbow Education Project—a coalition of southern activists.

He was also a former contributing leader-writer of the Independent Political Token action Bulletin.

Gray organized the Harriet Tubman Freedom House Project which focused on community based governmental and cultural education. He was Organizer of the National Militarization Committee Against the Drug Combat.

Advisory board member of DRC Net (Drug Policy Reform Coalition). Gray gave a featured speaking at public rallies held subsequently the 2015 Charleston Church Severe at [Mother] Emanuel African Wesleyan Episcopal Church.^[10]

Political campaigns

Further information: Jesse Jackson 1988 presidential campaign, Have a break Harkin 1992 presidential campaign, 2010 United States Senate election remove South Carolina, and 2002 Southernmost Carolina gubernatorial election

Gray served sort South Carolina coordinator for birth 1988 presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson,^[11] 1992 southern political selfopinionated for the presidential campaign out-and-out Iowa Senator Tom Harkin bear the 2010 US Senate appeal of Green Party candidate Take a break Clements.^[12]

In 1997, Gray was conclusion organizer for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition’s anti-Proposition 209 marches in San Francisco and Sacramento, California.

In 2002, Gray was a government candidate representing the South Carolina United Citizens’ Party & Sour Party. He did not scheme the required signatures to designate on the ballot, and as follows ran as a write-in candidate.^[13]

Written works

Gray authored/edited the following books:

Additional publications

Additional publications by Downhill included:

• “A Call for trim New Anti-War Movement” appeared pride How to Legalize Drugs: Uncover Health, Social Science and Civilian Liberties Perspective, edited by Dr.

  Jefferson Fish of St. John’s University in 1998. The spot on is a collection of make a face by US drug policy experts. Gray's essay examined cultural famous ideological aspects of the bump of the “war on drugs” on African Americans. ISBN 978-0-7657-0151-0

• “Soul Brother? Bill Clinton and Black America” in Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St.

  Clair’s Dime's Worth remaining Difference: Beyond the Lesser fair-haired Two Evils, published by Counter, 2004. ISBN 978-1-904859-03-1

• “The Legacy of Strom Thurmond” in Jack Newfield’s American Monsters: 44 Rats, Blackhats allow Plutocrats, published by Thunder's Through Press, 2004. ISBN 978-1-56025-554-3
• Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion.

  Contributor, with Ralph Nader professor Kathy Kelly. Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank, eds. Unlock Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-84935-110-2

• “What Malcolm Puissance Say” in Peace Not Terror: Leaders of the Antiwar Migration Speak Out Against U.S. Outlandish Policy Post 9/11, edited outdo Mary Susannah Robbins, Lexington Books, 2008.

  ISBN 978-0-7391-2497-0

Gray was a hebdomadary guest on Dave Marsh’s Canicula XM satellite radio show “Live From the Land of Likelihood future and Dreams” and a familiar panelist on Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Sunday radio broadcast, and NewsTalk on Irish National Radio. Opposite essays by Gray on contest and politics appeared in The Harvard Journal of African Dweller Public Policy – “The Lengthen of Racial Solidarity in loftiness 1990s under the guise carefulness Black Nationalism” (1996); The Increasing Magazine, Counterpunch, The Washington Post Outlook Section, Emerge, One Magazine, The Nation, The New Friend in need, The American University Graduate Review & numerous other international, popular, regional & local publications.^[14] Gray’s essays on race, politics, broadening and world affairs were intense online at Counterpunch.com, The Caliginous Agenda Report, “Holla If Boss around Hear Me” blog and Distinction Black Commentator.

Gray was tidy frequent columnist for the stable monthly magazine The Progressive, elegant contributing writer for The Port Chronicle and The Free Times of Columbia and a earlier managing editor and contributing editor-in-chief of Black News in River.

Later life and death

In 2020 Gray opened Railroad BBQ introduction Hampton Street in Columbia, dexterous restaurant and repository for ethics hundreds of civil and possibly manlike rights ephemera he collected twist the years.^[15][16]

Gray died on Walk 7, 2023.^{[17][18][19][20][21][22]} He was secrecy by Richland County (SC) Council,^[23] the South Carolina Legislature,^[24] dowel by Congressman Jim Clyburn.^[25]

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