Karin Dreijer

2009-03-24T11:09:07Z

Jellevc: Added Fever Ray to associated acts

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| Background = solo_singer
| Birth_name = Karin Elisabeth Dreijer Andersson
| Alias = Fever Ray
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| Genre = [[Alternative rock]]<br />[[Electronica]]
| Occupation = [[Singer-songwriter]]
| Years_active = 1994–present
| Label = [[Rabid Records|Rabid]], [[Brille Records|Brille]], [[Mute Records|Mute]]
| Associated_acts = [[The Knife]], [[Honey Is Cool]], [[Fever Ray]]
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'''Karin Elisabeth Dreijer Andersson''' (born 7 April 1975) is the lead vocalist of [[electronic music]] duo [[The Knife]], formed with her brother [[Olof Dreijer]]. Andersson was previously the vocalist and guitarist of the [[alternative rock]] band [[Honey Is Cool]]. Andersson released her debut solo album under the name '''Fever Ray''' in 2009.

==Solo work==
While The Knife is currently on hiatus, Karin released her debut solo album under the name Fever Ray in March 2009 via [[Rabid Records]]. "If I Had a Heart", the first single of the album, was released digitally on 15 December 2008. The self-titled album ''Fever Ray'' was released digitally via [[Rabid Records]] on 13 January 2009.<ref>[http://www.feverray.com/?p=82 Fever Ray's Debut Album Released Digitally]</ref>

==Collaborations==
In 2005, Andersson supplied vocals for the track "[[What Else Is There?]]" by [[Röyksopp]], appearing on the album ''[[The Understanding]]''. In 2008, Andersson provided vocals for the [[Deus (band)|dEUS]] song "Slow" from the band's ''[[Vantage Point (album)|Vantage Point]]'' album. In 2009, Andersson provided vocals for the tracks "This Must Be It" and "Tricky Tricky" by [[Röyksopp]], appearing on the album ''[[Junior (album)|Junior]]''.
Female impersonator [[Rickard Engfors]] plays her in The Knife's "Pass This On" music video.<ref>[http://www.myvillage.co.uk/pages/bars&music-interview-the-knife.htm Interview with The Knife]</ref>

==Solo discography==
===Albums===
* 2009: ''Fever Ray''

===Singles===
* 2008: "If I Had a Heart"
* 2009: "When I Grow Up"

===Collaborations===
* 2005: "[[What Else Is There?]]" by [[Röyksopp]] — Featured vocals
* 2008: "Slow" by [[Deus (band)|dEUS]] — Featured vocals
* 2009: "This Must Be It" and "Tricky Tricky" by [[Röyksopp]] - Featured vocals

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://feverray.com/ Official Fever Ray website]
* [http://www.theknife.net/ Official The Knife website]
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Mordfall James Byrd junior

2009-01-24T11:17:24Z

Jellevc: /* Reactions to the murder */ corrected link to "Jasper, Texas" film

[[File:JamesByrdJr..jpg|thumb|James Byrd, Jr.]]
'''James Byrd, Jr.''' ([[May 2]], [[1949]] - [[June 7]], [[1998]]) was an [[African-American]] [[murder]]ed in 1998 by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russell Brewer, and John William King, in [[Jasper, Texas|Jasper]], [[Texas]], [[United States]].

==The Murder==
On [[June 7]], [[1998]], Byrd, 49, accepted a ride from three drunk men named Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russell Brewer, and John William King. He had already known one of them. Instead of taking him home, the three men beat Byrd behind a convenience store, chained him by the ankles to their pickup truck, stripped the man naked, and dragged him for three miles. Although Lawrence Russell Brewer said that Byrd's throat had been slashed before he was dragged, forensic evidence suggests that Byrd had been attempting to keep his head up, and an [[autopsy]] suggested that Byrd was alive for much of the dragging and died after his right [[arm]] and [[head (anatomy)|head]] were severed when his body hit a [[culvert]]. His body had caught a sewage drain on the side of the road resulting in Byrd's decapitation. <ref name="ClosingArguments">"[http://www.cnn.com/US/9902/22/dragging.death.03/ Closing arguments today in Texas dragging-death trial]," ''[[CNN]]'', [[February 22]], [[1999]]</ref>.

King, Berry, and Brewer dumped their victim's mutilated remains in the town's black [[cemetery]], and then went to a barbecue. A wrench inscribed with "Berry" was found within the area along with a lighter that had "Possum" written on it, which was King's prison nickname. <ref>"[http://web.archive.org/web/20051227000441/http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=275 Justice in Jasper]," ''[[Texas Observer]]'', [[September 17]], [[1999]]</ref>.

The next morning, Byrd's limbs were scattered across a very little-used road. The police found 75 places littered with Byrd's remains. State law enforcement officials along with Jasper’s [[District Attorney]] Guy James Gray and Assistant Pat Hardy determined that since King and Brewer were well-known [[white supremacists]], the murder was a [[hate crime]], and decided to bring in the [[FBI]] less than 24 hours after the discovery of Byrd’s remains. One of Byrd's murderers, John King, had a tattoo depicting a black man hanging from a tree, and other tattoos such as [[Nazism|Nazi]] symbols, the words "[[Aryan race|Aryan]] Pride," and the patch for the [[Ku Klux Klan|Confederate Knights of America]], a gang of white supremacist inmates. <ref>"[http://www.cnn.com/US/9902/16/dragging.death.04/index.html Texas sheriff 'knew somebody was murdered because he was black']," ''[[CNN]]'', [[February 16]], [[1999]]</ref> In a jailhouse letter to Brewer which was intercepted by jail officials, King expressed pride in the crime and said he realized he might have to die for committing it. "Regardless of the outcome of this, we have made history. Death before dishonor. [[Sieg Heil]]!", King wrote. <ref name="ClosingArguments"/>

An officer investigating the case also testified that witnesses said King referenced [[The Turner Diaries]] after beating Byrd. [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/jasper1.html Read the officer's account of the initial stages of the investigation through an affidavit filed in Jasper County, Texas on June 9, 1998.]

Brewer and King were [[Sentence (law)|sentenced]] to [[Capital punishment|death.]] Berry received [[Life imprisonment|life in prison.]]

==The Perpetrators==

'''John King''' - accused of beating Byrd with a bat and then dragging him behind a [[pickup truck|truck]] until he died. King had previously claimed to have been [[prison rape|gang-raped]] in prison by black prisoners<ref name="Prison Fellowship">{{cite web | title="Justice Fellowship"| work="Prison Rape - It's No Joke" | url=http://www.justicefellowship.org/article.asp?ID=2695 | accessdate=February 9 | accessyear=2007}}</ref> and, although he had no previous record of racism, had joined a white-supremacist prison gang, allegedly for self-protection. The testimony phase of his trial started in [[Jasper, Texas|Jasper]], [[Texas]] on [[February 16]], [[1999]]. He was found guilty of kidnapping and murder on [[February 23]] and was sentenced to death on [[February 25]].

'''Lawrence Russell Brewer''' - another white supremacist convicted of murdering Byrd. Prior to the Byrd murder, Brewer had served a prison sentence for drug possession and burglary, and he was paroled in 1991. After violating the parole in 1994, he was sent back to prison. According to his court testimony, he joined a white supremacist gang with King in order to safeguard himself from other prisoners.<ref name="Court TV Online">{{cite web | title="Court TV Online"| url=http://www.courttv.com/archive/trials/brewer/092199_pm_ctv.html| accessdate=June 19 | accessyear=2007}}</ref> A state psychiatrist testified that Brewer did not appear repentant for his crimes. In the end, Brewer was also [[death penalty|sentenced to death]].

'''Shawn Allen Berry''' - The driver of the truck, Berry was the most difficult to convict of the three defendants because there was a lack of evidence to suggest that he himself was a racist. He had also claimed that his two companions were entirely responsible for the crime. Brewer testified that it was Berry who cut Byrd's throat before he was tied to the truck, but the jury decided that there was little evidence to indicate this.<ref name="Texas NAACP">{{cite web |title="Texas NAACP| url=http://www.texasnaacp.org/jasper.htm | accessdate=June 19 | accessyear=2007}}</ref> As a result, Berry was spared the death penalty and given a life sentence in prison.

==Reactions to the murder==

Numerous aspects of the Byrd murder echo [[lynching in the United States|lynching]] [[tradition]]s, including [[mutilation]] or [[decapitation]], and revelry, such as a barbecue or a picnic, during or after.

Byrd's murder was strongly condemned by [[Jesse Jackson]] and the [[Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change|Martin Luther King Center]] as an act of vicious [[racism]] and focused national attention on the prevalence of [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] [[prison gang]]s. Two of the three defendants, who were later tried and convicted for the murder, had allegedly joined such gangs while imprisoned in Texas.

The victim's family created the [http://www.thebyrdfoundation.org/ James Byrd Foundation for Racial Healing] after his death. In 2003, a movie about the crime, called ''[[Jasper, Texas (film)|Jasper, Texas]]'', was produced and shown on [[Showtime]]. The same year, a documentary called [http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2002/twotownsofjasper/index.html ''Two Towns of Jasper''], made by filmmakers Marco Williams and Whitney Dow, premiered on PBS's [http://www.pbs.org/pov/ P.O.V. series].

Basketball star [[Dennis Rodman]] offered to pay for Byrd's funeral. Although Byrd's family declined this offer, they accepted a $25,000 donation by Rodman to a fund started to support Byrd's family.

While at the CBS-owned [[WTGB-FM|WARW]] radio station in Washington, D.C., DJ [[The Greaseman|Doug Tracht]] (AKA The Greaseman) made a derogatory comment about James Byrd after playing [[Lauryn Hill]]'s song "[[Doo Wop (That Thing)]]"<ref> "THE RELIABLE SOURCE" Annie Groer, Ann Gerhart. [[The Washington Post]]. Washington, D.C.: Mar 18, 1999. pg. C.03</ref>. The February 1999 incident proved catastrophic to his radio career, igniting protests from black and white listeners alike. Tracht was quickly fired from WARW and lost his position as a volunteer deputy sheriff in [[Falls Church]], [[Virginia]].

== A campaign issue ==

Some advocacy groups, such as the NAACP National Voter Fund, made an issue of this case during [[George W. Bush]]'s presidential campaign in 2000. They accused him of implicit racism, since as governor, he opposed special [[hate crime]] legislation and, citing a prior commitment, Bush declined to appear at Byrd's funeral. Because two of the three murderers were sentenced to death and the third to a life term in prison (all charged with and convicted of capital murder, the highest felony level in Texas), Governor Bush maintained that "we don't need ''tougher'' laws."

After [[Governor of Texas|Governor]] [[Rick Perry]] inherited the rest of [[George W. Bush]]'s unexpired term, the 77th Texas Legislature passed the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act on [[May 11]], [[ 2001]].

==Family==

Ross Byrd, the only son of James, has been involved with the organization called Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, an anti-death penalty group. He has campaigned to spare the life of those who murdered his father and appears briefly in the documentary Deadline About The Death Penalty in Illinois.

== See also ==
*[[Dragging death]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Further reading==
*King, Joyce. ''Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas.'' Pantheon, 2002.
*Temple-Raston, Dina. ''A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption.'' Henry Holt and Co., January 6, 2002.

== External links ==
*[http://www.thebyrdfoundation.org/ James Byrd Foundation for Racial Healing]
*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7105192 James Byrd Jr] at findagrave
*[http://www.texasnaacp.org/jasper.htm Texas NAACP, James Byrd Jr] at texasnaacp.org
*[http://www.cnn.com/US/9902/18/dragging.death.03/index.html cnn.com] Co-defendant Shawn Berry led police to the chain used to drag James Byrd Jr to death
*[http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/jasper/ Jasper, Texas] - ''[[Houston Chronicle]]'' feature coverage of the murder
*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6422562666228591700&q=innerviews InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse: Stella Byrd] television interview with Byrd's mother
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335185 Jasper, Texas] television movie
*[http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1464 Politically Correct Murder and Media Bias] by [[Larry Elder]], compares media coverage of the Byrd case to the murder of [[Ken Tillery]]
*[http://www.courttv.com/archive/trials/brewer/092199_pm_ctv.html Court TV Online]
*[http://www.texasnaacp.org/jasper.htm Texas NAACP]
*[http://www.gwu.edu/~action/ads2/adnaacp.html NAACP National Voter Fund - Campaign ads 2000]

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Karin Dreijer

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