Demartravion Trey Reed

Authors of The Resistance is amplifying the call for justice for Demartravion Trey Reed, a 21-year-old Black student whose life was stolen in a violent act that echoes the terror of lynching. Trey was found hanging from a tree on the campus of Delta State University—his body suspended in plain sight, just hours before the school’s centennial celebration.

Trey’s death is not just a personal loss to those who loved him—it is a brutal reminder of the racial violence that continues to haunt Southern soil. No one should die under the shadow of institutional silence and historical erasure. Every death that mimics the legacy of lynching sends the message that Black lives are still seen as expendable. We reject that message.

We honor Trey’s memory and demand truth, transparency, and the dismantling of systems that allow such horrors to be dismissed, sanitized, or ignored. His life mattered. His death must not be met with silence.

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