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A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #130
You cannot mend the chromosome, quell the earthquake, or stanch the flood. You cannot atone for dead tyrants’ murders, and you alone cannot stop living…
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“Hating Obama”
Twice in 2008, I stood in the long lines at the Alabama State University polling place to vote for Barack Obama. First in the primary, then again…
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“Old South” and “New South” in the JeffCo Courthouse
The Change.org petition to remove two Depression-era murals in the Jefferson County Courthouse, in Birmingham, Alabama begins with this statement: A courthouse should be a…
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A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #129
If sometimes racism is called a social problem, other times a disease (often, a “cancer” on the South), and still other times a “poison,” most…
