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Simon Ezra Balto
What We Talk About When We Talk about Gun Violence
Who will survive in America? -- Gil Scott-Heron, "Comment #1"2013 in Chicago began a lot like 2012 closed: with blood in the streets. Five people died here on New Years' Day. Four of them were black men thirty years old or younger -- all from gun... more
James Baldwin’s America and the Paradox of Race
Baldwin gazed upon the racial topography of early-1960s America and saw not a dreamscape of possibility, but a sobering and ongoing nightmare. more
