The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of activists who have decried the social stratification brought about by our prison systems.
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As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints.
Tags: long, culture, man, history
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.
Tags: slavery, painting, black, people
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.
Tags: person, humanity, death, life
Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice?
Tags: who, your, voice, you
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.
Tags: way, lie, power, truth
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