The Souls of Black Folk
"The Souls of Black Folks" originally written as a novel by W.E.B. DuBois is now a poem, more or less, for the 21st century as the struggle for egalitarianism and freedom continue, perhaps, even more so.
"The Souls of Black Folks" originally written as a novel by W.E.B. DuBois is now a poem, more or less, for the 21st century as the struggle for egalitarianism and freedom continue, perhaps, even more so.
In reading letters from World War II, the author discovered that NOW is as it was THEN (80 years to the day) with authoritarian rejection of the natural and universal principle of EQUALIY. Today we must use DEMOCRACY to save EQUALITY and avoid another world war.
I escaped yesterday into small-town America and enjoyed it even as a Martian in a MAGA venue.
Recently my partner and I had brunch with some old comrades, folks I first met in the 1996 fight to stop the state of California from outlawing affirmative action. Sadly, we lost that one and, almost three decades later, we continue to lose affirmative action programs thanks to a Supreme Court rearranged or, more accurately, deranged by one Donald J. Trump[...]