Rafiah Muhammad-McCormick on Violence Prevention and the Death Penalty

In the August 2026 episode of 12:01: The Death Penalty in Context, DPI Racial Justice Storyteller Taylor Bonner speaks with Rafiah Muhammad-McCormick, Director of Community Outreach for Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (TADP) and founder of Rodney’s Village, a vio­lence pre­ven­tion non-prof­it. A mur­der victim’s fam­i­ly mem­ber and com­mu­ni­ty advo­cate, Ms. Muhammad-McCormick dis­cuss­es how the loss of her son shaped her approach to vio­lence pre­ven­tion and death penal­ty advo­ca­cy, the impor­tance of com­mu­ni­ty account­abil­i­ty, and the resources vic­tims and their fam­i­lies need to heal after violence.

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