In Indiana, a former Marine has confessed to killing a professor at Indiana University named Don Belton. Belton taught English at the school and was the editor of the book Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream. Northwestern University Professor John Keene said, “Belton was a literary path blazer and one of the important black gay writers to emerge in the 1980s.” Twenty-five-year-old Michael Griffin has been charged with murder in the killing. Griffin told police he stabbed Belton because the professor had sexually assaulted him. But according to court documents, a journal found at Belton’s house contained a note saying that he is “very happy that an individual by the name of Michael has come into his life.”