Serena Williams changed tennis, as this Tony Hoagland poem makes clear.
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Serena and Venus Transformed Tennis
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The Deep Roots of U.S. Race Hatred
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Water Dancer” describes race dynamics in slave society that still operate today.
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Kesey, Spokesman for Reactionary Men
“One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” anticipates rightwing attacks on women and people of color.
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Iago Resentment Is Destroying America
The “ressentiment” that drives Iago to destroy Othello is present in our own society and equally destructive.
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Lorde on Our Fury over Racial Killings
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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The Arbery Killers, Today’s Slave Catchers
The men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery are like the slave catchers in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
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Only What Is Human Can Be Foreign
Szymborska’s beautiful poem “Psalm” provides the perspective we all need on immigrants at the border.
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Using Brecht to Explain U.S. Gun Laws
Brecht has as clear an explanation as any as to why gun laws are tilted towards Whites.
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