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Clifton’s Poem about a Lynching Victim

By Robin Bates | Published: August 22, 2023

Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of a Jasper, Texas lynching. Lucille Clifton has a poem about victim James Byrd.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 27, 2023

In life, Faulkner was a racist. In his fiction, he deconstructed racism brilliantly.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 29, 2022

The long overdue anti-lynching bill signed into law by Biden yesterday brings to mind powerful lynching poems, including this one by Hughes.

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By Robin Bates | Published: January 15, 2022

In “Christ in Alabama,” Hughes imagines a black Christ being lynched by a white mob.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 31, 2018

The late Philip Roth’s novel “Human Stain” reenforced for me that humans are always more complex than ideological caricatures of them.