The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
ABERJHANIHow hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one’s being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
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The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various ‘individuals’, or groups of ‘individuals’
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The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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