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Monthly Archives: May 2024
A Red Record Redux
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, in A Red Record (1895), about the bloody murders of Black people at the hands of white people, lists three “excuses” white people gave for the wholesale murder of Black people by whites. The excuses are: …the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics & Public Affairs, Race, History & American Society, Streets of Rage
Tagged 15th Amendment, A Red Record, Al Capone, American Fiction, Christiaen van Couwenbergh, Civil War, Donald Trump, Equal Justice Initiative, Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter, Ida B. Wells, Ku Klux Klan, Martin Luther King Jr., miscegenation, No Negro Domination, raising black boys, Reconstruction, Regulators, Relationships, Rudy Giuliani, Slavery, The Rape of the Negro Girl
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A Red Record
In my last blog I indicated that in the next one I would write something about crime and punishment. For more than half my life, I have written extensively on the subject, in letters to editors, editorials, essays, and anthologies. … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Justice & Punishment, Politics & Public Affairs
Tagged #BlueLivesMatter, A History of Racial Injustice, BlackLivesMatter, Corrections 360, Dred Scott Decision, Equal Justice Initiative, National Poetry Series, NYPD, police involved shooting, raising black boys, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, United States Supreme Court
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Neither Snow nor Rain nor Heat nor Gloom of Night Stays Hate Mail from Being Delivered
Long before my first, award-winning book, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass: Remembrance of Things Past and Present, an epic poem on the captivity, exploitation and suffering of Black people in America, was published (2000), I knew I … Continue reading
The Writing Life: Writing An Award-Winning Epic Poem
My epic poem, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass: Remembrance of Things Past and Present, was a co-winner of the 1998 Edwin Mellen Poetry Prize for an epic poem on the theme, “the captivity, exploitation, and suffering of … Continue reading
Posted in Politics & Public Affairs
Tagged 1998 Edwin Mellen Poetry Prize, Africa's Gift to America, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Civil War, Hayes-Tilden Compromise, J.A. Rogers, James Weldon Johnson, Lift Every Voice and Sing, Rene Descartes, Sex & Race, Slavery, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Picture of Dorian Gray, W. E. B. Du Bois
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Streets of Rage Redux
When my childhood friend, Isa Rock, read and reviewed my novel, Streets of Rage, he wanted more. A few mornings ago, I started to think about more, and thus the process began in my head. My process as a writer … Continue reading
William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters 