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Lorde on Our Fury over Racial Killings

By Robin Bates | Published: November 23, 2021

Lorde has a poem examining her anger at Whites killing innocent Blacks. It’s a good caution as the Arbery trial nears its end.

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Lit Opens Minds to Suffering of the Other

By Robin Bates | Published: October 23, 2016

Philosopher Martha Nussbaum argues that literature is essential for creating good citizens in a diverse society, turning to Sophocles’s “Philoctetes” and Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” to make her point.

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Rise Up, Plain Bellied Sneetches!

By Robin Bates | Published: April 4, 2013

Dr. Seuss’s story of the sneetches captures America’s melting pot story.

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