Square up.

James "King" Davis — The Legendary Black Fist — says it low and steady, the syllables a warning and a promise rolled into two words. When he runs up on any antagonist or opposing force, those words are the first strike: economy, authority, inevitability. They clear the air the way thunder clears a summer sky. In the streets, in council chambers, in back alleys and at crowded shelters, “square up” announces that the reckoning has arrived.