By Reginald Dwayne Betts — 2019
The poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, whose new collection is “Felon,” on the writer who helped him come to terms with himself.
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CLEAR ALL
White masses, laced with anger and jealousy, armed with white supremacy, propaganda, and the powers afforded to them by the Jim Crow South, did carry out one of the worse incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.
Many argue the Black American struggle for freedom and justice in the 20th century was facilitated mainly via two paths: faith (the church) and the law (the courtroom).