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The Jena Six: “Southern Trees Bear Strange Fruit”

Posted on September 26, 2007 by kelly vasquez — 9 Comments ↓

by Kelly Vásquez – USA – I have always been deeply affected and influenced by music. Depending on my mood, I happily switch between drastically varying genres, but from age six when I first heard Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong…

African Americans Draw a Line in the Sand Over Illegal Immigration

Posted on August 15, 2007 by faye anderson — 2 Comments ↓

by Faye Anderson – USA – Every hour sees the black man elbowed out of employment by some newly arrived emigrant, whose hunger and whose color are thought to give him a better title to the place. For most African…

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