The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader, more universal truth.
Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice?
The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.
Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were inherently subordinate beings; they were used to make slavery acceptable and to make black subjugation more palatable.
