This Tree Needs Water!: A Case Study on the Radical Potential of Afro-Asian Solidarity in the Era of Black Lives Matter

In 2018, Stephon “Zoe” Clark and Darell Richards were killed by the Sacramento Police Department as an act of state-sanctioned violence at the intersection of a historically Black and Southeast Asian community. This article examines how a new iteration of Afro-Asian solidarity led by Asian American activists, artists, and organizers is emerging in South Sacramento as a direct response to urban repression and state-sanctioned violence in the era of #blacklivesmatter.