Tag: Social justice
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Contributing to the Cause
On this day of national activism, I appreciated this post by The Poetry Foundation. It shares a selection of poems that, “call out and talk back to the inhumane forces that threaten from above. They expose grim truths, raise consciousness, and build united fronts. Some insist, as Langston Hughes writes, “That all these walls oppression builds […]
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Getting Back to Work
I woke up Wednesday morning with no words. I could not post to Facebook. I could not Tweet. I could not even begin to scratch out my thoughts in the battered green notebook I carry to catch my writing. I did read, though. I read the Facebook posts of friends who were reeling in disappointment, […]
Teri McDowell Ott 