Dream deferred
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run?…
Read MoreWhat happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run?…
Read MoreI don’t know how seriously [people who are suspicious of others not like them] do take their Christianity, because if you take something seriously, you’re…
Read MoreWe’ve never said protests are the answer, but protests create space for the answer. Protest is disruption. Protest is confrontation. Protest is the end…
Read MoreAs much of the urban sociology literature argues, the neighborhood is a critically important place for marginalized groups. Concepts such as place attachment and…
Read MoreThe more I read, the more I felt connected across time to other lives and deeper sympathies. I felt less isolated. I wasn’t floating…
Read MoreRadicals don’t take responsibility for this society because it is a capitalist society, an enemy society. They never learn what it is to practice…
Read MoreOften, educators and politicians speak and are not understood because their language is not attuned to the concrete situation of the people they address….
Read MoreThe use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing but intensify…
Read MoreWith small towns shrinking and services eroding, many Dakotans retain an appalling innocence about what it means to be rural in contemporary America. The…
Read MoreEarth is sexy, just as sex is earthy. Each of us is a landscape of plains and peaks, valleys and thickets. I speak in…
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