I suppose the African in America has always had an adversarial relationship with the word violence. To consider this word and how it functions concerning the black community, I recall an interview Angela Davis did in prison where she was asked about violence, specifically, whether she approved of it. To this inquiry, she recalled a…
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Protest Participation and Black Power
We met on the hilltop. The chants occurred sporadically, ascending when passing those translating our footsteps to footage on their phones. The African adjacent came with signs more often than the African descended. The crowd knelt with raised fists twice, a gesture synonymous with closing one’s eyes to pray. In studying the ancestral plight to…
Whispers of a Womanist 