Articles tagged with: Civil Rights
What We Need Now Is Not Another Blues Poem
In a poignant poem, Ed Garnes responds to the death of Oscar Grant, a recent victim of police brutality.
Obama Drama: When Racial Identity Goes Wrong
Obama is not as racially obscure as Justice Clarence Thomas or as radical as the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. But, he occupies a curious public space where his “Blackness” is palatable across race and class fault lines.















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