![]() Born in the South Bronx and raised in the Throgs Neck Housing Projects, Medina earned a BA in English at Baruch College, CUNY, on the GI Bill, and an MA and PhD at Binghamton University, SUNY, where he received the Distinguished Dissertation Award. Tony Medina is a poet, graphic novelist, editor, short story writer, and author. In the first graphic novel for young readers to focus on police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, as in Hamlet, the dead shall speak-and the living yield even more surprises.įoreword by Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of Just Mercy. As they confront their new realities, both Alfonso and those he loves realize the work that lies ahead in the fight for justice. Meanwhile, Alfonso’s family and friends struggle with their grief and seek justice for Alfonso in the streets. When Alfonso wakes up in the afterlife, he’s on a ghost train guided by well-known victims of police shootings, who teach him what he needs to know about this subterranean spiritual world. But as he is buying his first suit, an off-duty police officer mistakes a clothes hanger for a gun, and he shoots Alfonso. He also wants to let his best friend, Danetta, know how he really feels about her. ![]() ![]() Alfonso Jones can’t wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school’s hip-hop rendition of the classic Shakespearean play. ![]()
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